On Top of the World

by Fran Manushkin, Tammie Lyon (Illustrator)

Overview

Pedro's family is spending the day with their friends at an amusement park. Everyone is having a wonderful time until Pedro's brother Paco gets lost! Can a ride on the Ferris wheel lead Pedro back to Paco? A glossary, reader questions, and a set of kid-pleasing jokes keep young readers learning and reading to the very end of the book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781515853909
Publisher:	Capstone
Publication date:	05/01/2019
Series:	Pedro Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	32
File size:	9 MB
Age Range:	5 - 7 Years

About the Author

Fran Manushkin is the author of many popular picture books, including How Mama Brought the Spring; Baby, Come Out!; Latkes and Applesauce: A Hanukkah Story; and The Tushy Book. There is a real Katie Woo — she's Fran's great-niece — but she never gets in half the trouble of the Katie Woo in the books. Fran writes on her beloved MacBook in New York City.
Tammie Lyon, the illustrator of the Katie Woo and Pedro series, says that these characters are two of her favorites. Tammie has illustrated work for Disney, Scholastic, Simon and Schuster, Penguin, HarperCollins, and Amazon Publishing, to name a few. She is also an author/illustrator of her own stories. Her first picture book, Olive and Snowflake, was released to starred reviews from Kirkus and School Library Journal. Tammie lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, with her husband Lee and two dogs, Amos and Artie. She spends her days working in her home studio in the woods, surrounded by wildlife and, of course, two mostly-always-sleeping dogs Tammie Lyon, the illustrator of the Katie Woo and Pedro series, says that these characters are two of her favorites. Tammie has illustrated work for Disney, Scholastic, Simon and Schuster, Penguin, HarperCollins, and Amazon Publishing, to name a few. She is also an author/illustrator of her own stories. Her first picture book, Olive and Snowflake, was released to starred reviews from Kirkus and School Library Journal. Tammie lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, with her husband Lee and two dogs, Amos and Artie. She spends her days working in her home studio in the woods, surrounded by wildlife and, of course, two mostly-always-sleeping dogs.

Table of Contents

Family Fun Park — Where's Paco? — Be brave, Pedro!

Interviews

Spinoff series from Fran Manushkin's popular Katie Woo series;,Readers will relate to Pedro's interests, experiences, and happy-go-lucky personality;,Three-chapter structure builds confidence, as beginning readers are excited to be reading a chapter book;