More Snacks!: A Thanksgiving Play (Ready-to-Read Pre-Level 1)

by Joan Holub, Will Terry (Illustrator)

Overview

The kids of Ant Hill are putting on a play about their ancestors' first Thanksgiving — when they hopped aboard the Mayflower (right behind the Pilgrims) and sailed across the Atlantic to meet new six-legged friends around a big harvest spread. Let the show begin!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781416909545
Publisher:	Simon Spotlight
Publication date:	10/01/2006
Series:	Ant Hill , #1
Edition description:	Repackage
Pages:	24
Sales rank:	686,022
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.20(d)
Lexile:	250L (what's this?)
Age Range:	3 - 5 Years

About the Author

Joan Holub has authored and/or illustrated over 140 children’s books, including the Goddess Girls series, the Heroes in Training series, the New York Times bestselling picture book Mighty Dads (illustrated by James Dean), and Little Red Writing (illustrated by Melissa Sweet). She lives in North Carolina and is online at JoanHolub.com.

Will Terry grew up just outside the Beltway of Washington, D.C. He has illustrated books for Simon & Schuster; Scholastic; Random House; Holt, Rinehart and Winston; Harcourt; Houghton Mifflin; and Hooked on Phonics. He enjoys snowboarding, racquetball, mountain biking, backpacking, and camping with his wife and their three boys. They live in Coalinga, California.

Editorial Reviews

PreS-K-Bug-eyed pilgrim ants board a ship to a new land. After a stormy ride, they arrive and give thanks. Superimposed on the full-page, color illustrations are short rhyming sentences in dialogue, such as "`Peek out,' said Scout. `Oh no!' said Joe." This sentence structure gets old quickly, and much inferring is required to understand the Thanksgiving theme behind the limited text. Most kids will soon get bored with this book. Bethany Roberts's Thanksgiving Mice! (Clarion, 2001) has a better story.-Sandra Welzenbach, Villarreal Elementary School, San Antonio, TX Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

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