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Clorinda Plays Baseball!: with audio recording


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No. of pages 40

Published: 2012

Great for age 7-10 years

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Robert Kinerks and beloved artist Steven Kelloggs Clorinda returns to play ball!Clorinda the irrepressible cow is back! This time the bovines at bat for her favorite team, the Red Hats of BossTown. And the rival team is in troublebecause when Clorinda steps up to the plateits a win for the home team for sure!Whimsical, rhyming text from Robert Kinerk paired with humorously detailed illustrations from acclaimed illustrator Steven Kellogg,makes for a charming tale of teamwork that reinforces the importance of self esteem.

 

 

This book is aimed at children in preschool-3rd grade.

This book has been graded for interest at 4-8 years.

There are 40 pages in this book. This book was published in 2012 by Simon & Schuster .

Steven Kellogg is the award winning author and illustrator of over 100 children's books. One of the most popular author illustrator's working in the USA. He has won several awards in America, including ones for humour and his distiguished contribution to children's literature. He lives with Helen and Sylvia (Sylvia's a cocker spaniel) in Connecticut in the USA Robert Kinerk is the author of Clorinda, illustrated by Steven Kellogg, which was an IRA Children's Book Award Notable Book, and about which Booklist said in a starred review, "Much applause for Clorinda. " Mr. Kinerk grew up in Alaska and has worked as a journalist and playwright. He now lives with his wife, Anne, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

 

"Kinerk's easy, breezy verse, with some wonderfully inventive rhymes, moves the story along at a breathless pace, with one madcap event after another. See a home run that knocks a storm out of the park, and be amazed at a cow that pilots a helicopter. It's over-the-top baseball fantasy, but there's also friendship and loving selflessness. Kellogg's signature cartoon watercolors and text placement vary pleasingly in layout. As always, they not only match the plot but add layers of details and special effects.

Hilarious and joyful; hooray, Clorinda." (Picture book. 3-9) --"Kirkus Reviews", February 1, 2012

 

Clorinda Plays Baseball!

By Robert Kinerk and illustrated by Steven Kellogg

(Paula Wiseman; ISBN 9780689868658; February 2012; Spring catalog p. 17)

In previous books about the audacious cow Clorinda, she has been a ballerina and a pilot. Next up: playing ball with the Red Hats of Bosstown. The improbable story of how Clorinda gets to "batter up" involves a pig named Hop, a farmer named Len and a shy boy, Deke, who just happens to be a crack baseball player. Kinerk's rollicking, inventive rhymes and Kellogg's action-packed watercolors will have children laughing even as the story touches on jealousy, disappointment, thwarted ambition and that great unsung hero, the supporting player.

--"New York Times Book Review", April 8, 2012