Cowboy Up! (A Rookie Reader)

by Larry Dane Brimner, Susan Miller (Illustrator)

Overview

A fun and engaging way for young children to figure out concepts and solving problems on his or her own.

Rookie Readers (Ages 5-7) have provided entertaining, high-quality introductions to reading for more than a generation. Each title features full-color, often hilarious illustrations and engaging stories that always involve a young child figuring out concepts or solving problems on his or her own. This book presents a rhyming look at a cowboy's day at the rodeo.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780516264752
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	05/01/2001
Series:	A Rookie Reader
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 7.00(h) x 0.07(d)
Lexile:	250L (what's this?)
Age Range:	5 - 7 Years

About the Author

Larry Dane Brimner studied literature and writing at San Diego State University and taught school for 20 years. He is the author of more than 200 books for children, including the Racing Ace early reader series. Larry lives in San Diego, California.

Editorial Reviews

PreS-Gr 2-Satisfactory additions to the series, these titles retain the small size that's so easy for beginning readers to manipulate, the limited rhyming vocabulary arranged in short simple sentences, and word lists on the final page. Cowboy Up! denotes a cowboy's day at the rodeo and has illustrations on every page, some of which are cleverly enclosed in lariats. Chairs has simple cartoon illustrations and introduces some basic concepts about the shape and sizes of chairs and where they might be found. In Messy Bessey's Holidays, the child bakes cookies for her friends for Chanukah, Christmas, and Kwanzaa. A recipe for decorated sugar cookies appears just before the word list at the end. This title is more complicated with twice as many vocabulary words and longer, more varied sentence length, and the rhymes are sometimes uneven.-Christina Dorr, Whitehall City Schools, OH Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

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