Awards
- Commended for NAPPA Gold Awards (Picture Book) 2014
Overview
Best-selling illustrator Mark Teague brings Bonnie Verburg's irresistable rhyming text that is brimming with animals and action to vivid life! Here is the boy up in the tree where he built a house overlooking the sea. Yes! This is the tree house that Jack built! With ladders, swings, turrets, and elaborate pulley systems everywhere-- animals chase one another over, under, around, and through. And then--the bell rings. Where are all the animals going? Readers will pore over every detail of Mark Teague's spellbinding pictures. And Bonnie Verburg's irresistible rhyming text leads readers to a soothing end of a wondrous day in the most exciting tree house ever!
Full Product Details
Author: Bonnie Verburg ,
Mark Teague
Publisher: Orchard Books
Imprint: Orchard Books
Dimensions:
Width: 23.90cm
, Height: 1.00cm
, Length: 31.30cm
Weight: 0.499kg
ISBN: 9780439853385
ISBN 10: 0439853389
Pages: 40
Publication Date: 27 May 2014
Recommended Age: From 3 to 5 years
Audience:
Children/juvenile
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Children / Juvenile
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Not yet available
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Reviews
Praise for THE KISS BOX-Amazon.com Book of the Year-An Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Award Winner Debut picture-book author Verburg structures the story, inspired by her personal experience, with a steady, soothing pace. Cole complements the language beautifully with watercolor and colored-pencil illustrations evoking the classic joys of childhood. . . . Similar in subject matter to Audrey Penn's THE KISSING HAND, illustrated by Ruth E. Harper and Nancy M. Leak (1993), but a whole lot more artful, this fresh take will motivate younger children to create boxes of their own. --KIRKUS REVIEWS Verburg handles her emotionally freighted material (based on personal experience, according to the endnote) with a light, patient touch, giving Little Bear's qualms their full due before introducing his solution. --PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Praise for the How Do Dinosaurs books HOW DO DINOSAURS SAY GOOD NIGHT?An ALA Notable BookA SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL Best Book of the YearA BOOKLIST Editor's ChoiceA NEW YORK TIMES, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, and BOOKSENSE bestseller. A delight from start to finish; better buy more than one. --BOOKLIST HOW DO DINOSAURS GET WELL SOON?A Bank Street College of Education Best Book of the YearA Parent's Choice Award winner* An excellent choice for story hours. --BOOKLIST, starred review* The perfect prescription for the crankily bedridden. --KIRKUS REVIEWS, starred review HOW DO DINOSAURS SAY I LOVE YOU?A Parent's Choice Award winner Kids should relate to the dinosaurs' mood swings and take heart in the notion that love conquers all. --PUBLISHERS WEEKLY HOW DO DINOSAURS SAY MERRY CHRISTMAS? Don't pass up this exuberant guide to achieving yuletide harmony. --SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL HOW DO DINOSAURS SAY HAPPY CHANUKAH? Yolen's characteristically wry verse is flawless in its rhyme and rhythm, and . . . the art's buttoned-up 1950s fashions and furnishingst
Author Information
Bonnie Ingber Verburg has been editing books for children and adults for nearly three decades. She and her son live in Southern California with their two dogs, three parrots, a cat, a king snake, a leopard gecko, and a fish named Huck Fin. Mark Teague is the award-winning children's book author and illustrator of his own bestselling Dear Mrs. LaRue series as well as FIREHOUSE!, FUNNY FARM, and many other humorous picture books. In addition to his prized art for the How Do Dinosaurs books, his recent illustrated novel, THE DOOM MACHINE, received excellent reviews. Mark lives in the Hudson River Valley with his wife and their two daughters.
