I Love My Teacher!

by Frances Gilbert, Eren Unten (Illustrator)

Overview

Perfect for Teacher Appreciation Week! This Step 1 reader is all about how wonderful school is when you have a great teacher.

Teachers are simply the best! The star of I Love Pink! and I Love My Tutu! absolutely loves her teacher! There's so much to learn, and her teacher makes it fun. So fun that our little pink lover enjoys pretending to be a teacher when she gets home. Emergent readers will relate to this story while bolstering their reading skills in this heartwarming celebration of teachers.

Step 1 Readers feature big type and easy words for children who know the alphabet and are eager to begin reading. Rhyme and rhythmic text paired with picture clues help children decode the story.

Young readers will LOVE the other I LOVE books in this series!
I Love My Pink!
I Love My Tutu!
I Love My Grandma!
I Love Cake!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780593430521
Publisher:	Random House Children's Books
Publication date:	04/05/2022
Series:	Step into Reading Book Series: A Step 1 Book
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	363,589
Product dimensions:	8.80(w) x 5.80(h) x 0.10(d)
Lexile:	250L (what's this?)
Age Range:	4 - 6 Years

About the Author

FRANCES GILBERT is a children's book editor and the author of the picture books Go, Girls, Go!, Too Much Slime!, and I Will Always Be Your Bunny; the Step Into Reading leveled readers I Love Pink!, I Love My Tutu!, I Love My Grandma!, I Love Cake! and I Love My Teacher!; and an abridgement of The Secret Garden for Little Golden Books. Follow her on Twitter at @GoGirlsGoBooks.

EREN UNTEN is a children's book illustrator who studied art and animation. She loves the outdoors, cooking, chocolate, and telling stories with pictures. She lives in California.

Editorial Reviews

"Expertly laid out with single-sentence phrases perfectly matched for its audience of early readers, this entry in the series is a lovely addition to the fold that will have kids buzzing with excitement and joy at all the wonders they find at school."—School Library Journal

From the Publisher

03/01/2022

PreS-Gr 1—Following in the perky footsteps of earlier entries in the series (I Love Pink, I Love Cake, I Love My Tutu, and I Love My Grandma), Gilbert adds another celebratory ode to the life of her joyous character. The first-person narrator of this story, who is white, brings effusive excitement to every stage of her school day—from home departure to class dismissal, this girl is thrilled by every experience, and her happiness will become infectious with big and little readers alike. Unten's illustrations, reminiscent of the cheerful advertising layouts of the 1950s and 1960s, perfectly complement Gilbert's bubbly prose and show the protagonist approaching reading, writing, painting, counting, and telling time with curiosity and optimism. The character's path as a lifelong learner comes full circle when we see her applying what she has been taught and modeling herself as a teacher at home with her all-too-eager pets. In a heartwarming display, the character demonstrates that not only is school a wonderful place to be, but that a teacher is a wonderful person to aspire to be, as well. VERDICT Expertly laid out with single-sentence phrases perfectly matched for its audience of early readers, this entry in the series is a lovely addition to the fold that will have kids buzzing with excitement and joy at all the wonders they find at school.—Jose Cruz

School Library Journal