Go, Sled! Go!

by James Yang, James Yang (Illustrator)

Overview

Theodor Seuss Geisel Award Winner James Yang hops on a speeding sled with this hilarious and helpful easy-to-read picture book, perfect for beginning readers!

Go, sled, go!
What could be more exciting than a thrilling sled ride?
Maybe when a few unexpected creatures join the adventure?
Before long, there's a bunny, a moose, a snowman, and even a baker with cakes on the sled, and more surprises are headed their way.
Repetitive words and large type make this a perfect book for beginning readers. And the laughs and surprises keep coming until the very satisfying end.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780593404799
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	10/25/2022
Pages:	40
Sales rank:	486,468
Product dimensions:	9.20(w) x 10.60(h) x 0.40(d)
Lexile:	AD200L (what's this?)
Age Range:	3 - 7 Years

About the Author

James Yang's prize-winning work has appeared in many magazines and newspapers, including Graphis, Newsweek, Forbes, Fortune, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. He is the author/illustrator of A Boy Named Isamu, Stop! Bot!, Bus! Stop!, Joey and Jet, Joey and Jet in Space, and Puzzlehead. The designer of "Clockman," a sculpture on display at the National Museum of American History, Mr. Yang and his wife live in New York City.

Editorial Reviews

★ "Geisel Award-winning Yang creates another enticing work for the very smallest book lover. A worthy addition to any preschool or early childhood-library; highly recommended for children and a great fun to read aloud." –School Library Journal, starred review

"Exclamatory prose exuberantly narrates this fast-paced, cumulative sledding journey." –Publishers Weekly

"Conversational interplay between an unseen narrator and the character's speech bubbles, plus the centrality of little-kid-friendly interjections ("No!" and "Stop!" and "Go!"), make this a zippy storytime selection—just be prepared fore requests for steaming cups of cocoa." –BCCB

"Yang's tale is an earnest, pleasant romp." –Kirkus Reviews

“’The child asks, ‘Shall we go again?’ The passengers shout ‘NO,’ but young readers will shout ‘YES!’” –The Horn Book




“’The child asks, ‘Shall we go again?’ The passengers shout ‘NO,’ but young readers will shout ‘YES!’

From the Publisher

★ 09/01/2022

Toddler-PreS—Geisel Award—winning Yang creates another enticing work for the very smallest book lover. "Go, sled! Go! Oh, bunny! No!" A young child embarks on a thrilling sled ride, picking up a host of animals, people, and experiences, one by one, until the crew crashes through a mountain village, picks up a baker, and finally comes to rest at the base of the mountain. The whimsical text uses repetition and inventive design that imitates the exciting motion of hurtling downhill; the timing is perfect, and the chaos is gratifying. Illustrations are bright, cheerful, and age appropriate. Onlookers, young or old, will start wishing for snow for their own exciting sled rides. VERDICT A worthy addition to any preschool or early childhood library; highly recommended for children and great fun to read aloud.—Brittany McMahon

School Library Journal

2022-08-31
An action-focused sled ride.

A cheerful character with tan skin and a striped cap totters over the crest of a bare snowy mountain on a yellow toboggan. The text gets right to the point, cheering, “Go, sled! Go!” The protagonist stares in dismay, shouting, “Oh, bunny! No!” as the sled barrels toward the startled critter. The sled doesn’t slow, and the following page shows the bunny riding along, too. With slight variations, this encounter repeats when the sled comes across a snowman, a moose, penguins, and the tan-skinned, pink-haired Mrs. Baker, whose cakes wind up everywhere when she ends up onboard. As the sled races along, picking up passengers, the dialogue, in speech bubbles, includes apologies and checks on well-being, perfect for starting conversations about emotions and helping friends. The chunky black text gloriously becomes art, wrapping around in circles for the sled’s inevitable roller-coaster loop. Basic action words like jump and stop will make for interactive read-aloud moments. Blocky graphic illustrations are grounded in paper-white snow and blue tones throughout. The book contains many visual and narrative similarities to Kim Norman’s Ten on the Sled (2010), illustrated by Liza Woodruff, and other stories where each spread slip-slides into the next. But Yang’s tale is an earnest, pleasant romp, and there is room on the shelf for this one, too. (This book was reviewed digitally.)

Simply fun, ripe for repeat reads. (Picture book. 3-5)

Kirkus Reviews