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Things to Do


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No. of pages 40

Published: 2017

Great for age 5-8 years

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With playful prose and vivid art, Things to Do brings to life the small moments and secret joys of a child's day. There are wonders everywhere. In the sky and on the groundblooming in a flower bed, dangling from a silken thread, buzzing through the summer airwaiting ...waiting to be found. In this thoughtful and ingenious collection of poems, Elaine Magliaro, an elementary school teacher for more than three decades and a school librarian for three years, and illustrator Catia Chien provide a luminous glimpse of the ordinary wonders all around us.

 

 

This book has been graded for interest at 4-6 years.

There are 40 pages in this book. This book was published in 2017 by Chronicle Books .

Elaine Magliaro writes poetry for children and serves as a member of the NCTE Poetry Committee. She lives in Massachusetts. Catia Chien is a children's book artist whose titles include an ALA Schneider Family Book award winner, A Boy and a Jaguar. She lives in New York.

 

"When the day is just waiting be filled with fun, one of the 'things to do' may well be to share this with some children."--Kirkus Reviews

 

"Scientific in precision and joyous in tone."-Publishers Weekly, starred review

 

"Rhymes both end and internal, deft alliteration, and clever turns of phrase make these little odes particularly effective readalouds."-The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

 

"Charming and well worth reading"-- Children's Literature