I Can Run

by Murray Head (Photographer)

Overview

A squirrel’s antics and entertaining photographs enliven a book for the newest reader at Guided Reading Level A. I can run. I can hop. I can jump. A simple text for the newest readers and fascinating photographs follow a captivating squirrel as he runs just for fun—and also to escape a scary hawk.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780823439010
Publisher:	Holiday House
Publication date:	08/15/2017
Series:	I Like to Read Series
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	32
File size:	14 MB
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Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Murray Head is a noted nature photographer. He lives in New York City, where he was born and where he is inspired by the ever-changing show in Central Park. Squirrels are his favorite actors.

Editorial Reviews

"convey[s] a straightforward simplicity with high returns on reader participation and engagement. An easy addition to young nonfiction collections."—School Library Journal
 
"Striking photographs . . . A book new readers will want to take a peek at."—Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2017-05-31
A day in the life of a squirrel for new readers.Striking photographs of a gray squirrel are paired with short, declarative sentences in the first person that describe the actions each picture depicts. "I can run" is the first line, and it appears on verso opposite a recto photo of the squirrel, its body stretched into a taut horizontal form moving from left to right with the page turn. Ensuing spreads depict the squirrel hopping, sitting, jumping (quite spectacularly), and so on. Then, two spreads are devoted to the squirrel hiding after a hawk tries to catch it. The drama in this sequence rivals that captured by Nic Bishop in Joy Cowley's Red-Eyed Tree Frog (1999). Never fear: the squirrel ends the book safe and sound, the final spread showing the barely visible squirrel face poking up and out of a hole in a burl. "I can peek" reads the accompanying text. Although the photography is crisp and clear, pages that depict the squirrel in a tree demonstrate perhaps too well how squirrel camouflage works—there is so little contrast between squirrel body and tree that it is a little hard to see. A book new readers will want to take a peek at. (Early reader. 5-7)

Kirkus Reviews