Skip Through the Seasons

by Stella Blackstone, Maria Carluccio (Illustrator)

Overview

"The repetitive text is perfect for toddlers, and the word lists on the bottom of the page are an excellent tool for building vocabulary" — School Library Journal

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781905236718
Publisher:	Barefoot Books
Publication date:	08/06/2006
Series:	Seek-and-Find Bks.
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	1,036,407
Product dimensions:	10.00(w) x 9.75(h) x 0.14(d)
Lexile:	AD520L (what's this?)
Age Range:	1 - 7 Years

About the Author

Award-winning author Stella Blackstone has written many of Barefoot's best-selling titles, including the Bear series and the Cleo the Cat series. She has been writing for children for over twenty years. Stella lives in Somerset, UK.

Maria Carluccio has studied art all over the world, and has also taught drawing and illustration at the Academy of Art in San Francisco. She comes from a creative background — her mother was an artist and her father was a lawyer and writer. Maria finds her inspiration in everything around her, from the knick-knacks she collects in flea markets to scraps of interesting paper she finds on the streets. She lives in New York with her husband, their daughter, and their dog and cat.

Editorial Reviews

"Little ones will delight in learning about the changing seasons through this wonderful literary adventure!" — Nashville Parent

"The repetitive text is perfect for toddlers, and the word lists on the bottom of the page are an excellent tool for building vocabulary" — School Library Journal

From the Publisher

Blackstone dances readers through a calendar year, inviting them to catalogue common items visible in each of a dozen simple, seasonal collage and gouache scenes. Beneath captioning rhymes ("Whirl into MARCH, come along with me! / The wind is whistling down the street-what can you see?"), she helps that catalogue along by listing a dozen or so items or other details per spread in a running footer, in this case: church, flag, truck, nest, clothesline, Frisbee, etc. Though everyone is smiling, even the occasional bunny or cat, in Carluccio's varied, idyllic settings, and Christmas seems to be the only holiday celebrated, at least the human figures show a range of ages and skin tones, and one child drives a wheelchair. All in all, not a bad way to introduce the months or to give younger children some practice in pairing words to objects. (Picture book. 4-6)

Kirkus Reviews