A Little Shopping (Cobble Street Cousins Series #2)

by Cynthia Rylant, Wendy Anderson Halperin (Illustrator)

Overview

Meet The
COBBLE STREET COUSINS

• Lily, who wants to be a poet
• Tess, who wants to be a Broadway star
• Rosie, who wants a little cottage with flowers by the door

Lily has a wonderful idea — to surprise Aunt Lucy with a dollhouse that looks just like her flower shop. But first the girls have to buy a few things at The Olde Craft Shoppe, and with the Cobble Street Cousins, even a little shopping trip can turn into an adventure!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780689817090
Publisher:	Aladdin
Publication date:	05/01/2000
Series:	Cobble Street Cousins , #2
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	64
Sales rank:	1,057,581
Product dimensions:	5.12(w) x 7.62(h) x 0.20(d)
Lexile:	780L (what's this?)
Age Range:	7 - 10 Years

About the Author

Cynthia Rylant is the author of more than 100 books for young people, including the beloved Henry and Mudge, Annie and Snowball, Brownie & Pearl, Motor Mouse, and Mr. Putter & Tabby series. Her novel Missing May received the Newbery Medal. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

Wendy Anderson Halperin is an acclaimed artist who has illustrated dozens of books for children, including Let’s Go Home by Cynthia Rylant, Soft House by Jane Yolen, and Turn, Turn, Turn! by Peter Seeger. She lives in South Haven, Michigan.

Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly Rylant's confident and sweet-natured girls are the kind of girls-next-door that anyone would want to know better.

The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books The charming...stories are going to make second and third grade girls blissfully happy.

From the Publisher

Gr 2-4--Nine-year-old cousins Lily, Rosie, and Tess are roommates in their aunt's home while their parents tour with a ballet company for a year. In A Little Shopping, the girls build a dollhouse replica of their aunt's flower shop to surprise her. In Aunt Lucy's Kitchen tells how the cousins decide to form a cookie company and meet a number of people in the community during their brief business adventure. Subplots involve playing cupid between their aunt and a customer and putting on a theatrical show for newfound friends. These titles fill the gap between easy readers and beginning chapter books. Halperin's soft pencil drawings scattered throughout add detail and just the right touch of fun to the stories. Sweet and refreshing, these books beg for a plate of freshly baked cookies and a comfortable reading chair.--Pam Hopper Webb, Sandpoint Community Christian School, ID

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