Fireworks for All / Fuegos artificiales para todos

by Susan Meddaugh

Overview

For Martha and the other dogs in town, Saturday-night fireworks are the worst part of summer—they are so scary to canines with their sensitive ears! Crabby Mrs. Demson couldn’t agree more. In fact, she’s collecting signatures for a petition to ban fireworks, and Martha is happy to add her pawprint to the list. But when Helen and her friends are devastated about the fireworks ban, Martha realizes that she helped Mrs. Demson ruin their fun. Can Martha find a way to reverse the ban and still protect her doggy ears?

With fun word activities that highlight the new vocabulary, including a complete-the-sentence activity. Now bilingual!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780547556208
Publisher:	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication date:	04/18/2011
Series:	Martha Speaks Series
Edition description:	Bilingual Edition: English-Spanish
Pages:	24
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.13(d)
Language:	Spanish
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Susan Meddaugh was born and raised in Montclair, New Jersey. She graduated from Wheaton College, where she studied French literature and fine arts. After working briefly with an advertising agency in New York, she moved to Boston and worked at a publishing company for ten years, first as a designer, then art editor, and finally as art director. While there, she did the illustrations for Good Stones (Houghton Mifflin) by Anne Epstein, and then decided to strike out on her own as a freelance illustrator and creator of children's books. Since that time, Susan has written and illustrated many popular books for children, including Martha Speaks, which was chosen as a New York Times Best Illustrated Book for 1992. In 1998 she was awarded the New England Book Award, given by the New England Booksellers Association to recognize a body of work. Her work also was acknowledged with a New York Times Best Illustrated Award. She lives in Sherborn, Massachusetts.

Editorial Reviews

Everyone likes fireworks; everyone, that is, except dogs. With their sensitive ears, canines like Martha hate the loud crackling noises and they all sigh with relief when a successful petition ends Saturday night fireworks in their town. However, when Martha realizes that the ban throws a damper on these popular festivities, she decides to search for a better way to her pooch problem. A bilingual story for pint-sized pet owners.