What a Trip, Amber Brown

by Paula Danziger Narrated by Dana Lubotsky

Overview

"When their families take a joint vacation to the Poconos, Amber Brown and her best friend (usually), Justin, swim, explore, and play delightedly unil a fateful cannonball into the pool...Dana Lubotsky creates the personality of exuberant Amber and brings a freshness to the story. Amber's delights and hurts become real to the listener. Lubotsky adds just the right amount of whine for Justin's brother, Danny, and gruffness for the fathers. Nighttime sound effects and background music complete the recording." - AudioFile

Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

The feisty series inaugurated in Amber Brown Is Not a Crayon is not just for middle graders any more - with these two volumes, Danziger and Ross introduce their winning heroine to beginning readers as well. Making Amber younger and showing the Brown family before divorce, Danziger simplifies her prose style without reducing her energy. She keeps several story lines moving, and she invigorates them with her characteristic love of puns and her kid-targeted sense of humor. In Justin Time, for example, which opens on the eve of Amber's birthday, she agitates for a watch ("I, Amber Brown, am one very excited six-year, 364-day-old kid"); she also tries to come to terms with her best friend's perpetual tardiness (the friend is Justin Daniels, who moves away in Crayon). In Trip, the Browns and the Daniels vacation together in the Poconos, during the course of which Justin hurts Amber's feelings, a business phone call during a dad-supervised outdoor sleepover annoys Amber, and Justin's left-out little brother finds a way to be included. The emotions are real and recognizable, and Amber's first-person narration makes even obvious jokes seem spontaneous (such as a riff on Poconos/"poke a nose"). Ross brings extra verve to his contributions. In Justin Time, for example, as Amber tells her stuffed-toy gorilla about the gift she wants, Ross shows her drawing a watch onto the gorilla's wrist. In aiming for a younger audience, Danziger and Ross have kept their standards just as high. Ages 5-8. (Mar.) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

School Library Journal

PreS-Gr 2-Dana Lubotsky narrates this charming audio version of Paula Danziger's book (Putnam, 2001), a Beginning to Read level 2 story about second grader Amber and her best friend, Justin, going on vacation to the "Poke a nose" in Pennsylvania with their families. The background music and pauses in the narration enhance the story for young readers. Although younger children will enjoy listening and following along with the story, the vocabulary is definitely at or above the second grade level for independent reading. The children in the story have realistic and believable emotions, experiences, and reactions. One side of the cassette has page-turn signals. This is a great story for a classroom group listening center, for independent modeling for English Language Acquisition students, or for a guided reading experience for less fluent readers.-Sherrie Davidson, Lyn Knoll Elementary School, Aurora, CO Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940178844229
Publisher:	Live Oak Media
Publication date:	01/01/2002
Series:	Amber Brown Series
Edition description:	Unabridged
Age Range:	5 - 8 Years

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