Snow Day: Ready-to-Read Level 1

by Margaret McNamara, Mike Gordon (Illustrator)

Overview

The kids in Mrs. Connor's class love the snow! And they love snow days even more! But when the snow will not stop falling, Nia realizes that staying at home is not so much fun after all.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781416934936
Publisher:	Simon Spotlight
Publication date:	10/23/2007
Series:	Robin Hill School
Edition description:	Repackage
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	1,016,446
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.20(d)
Lexile:	470L (what's this?)
Age Range:	4 - 6 Years

About the Author

Margaret McNamara is the author of the Robin Hill School series, and she gets many ideas from her daughter’s own school experiences. She lives in New York City.

Mike Gordon illustrates the Robin Hill School series and has an extensive and varied background in illustration and design. He lives with his family in Santa Barbara, California.

Editorial Reviews

K-Gr 2

This solid addition to the series features a party at Jamie's house where "All the first graders came." Multicultural classmates are dressed in ghost, robot, and elevator costumes and have mixed responses to the Haunted House with a spider web, plastic spider, and bowl full of "goopy worms...in Jell-O." The simple text and familiar theme supports emerging readers and rewards them with a satisfying plot twist and surprise. Gordon's vibrantly colored illustrations give plenty of visual clues for decoding the text and treats of wonderful costumes and party decorations, and add suspense with background shading. Beginning readers will also enjoy Paulette Bourgeois' Franklin's Pumpkin (Kids Can, 2005), Lisa Thiesing's A Dark and Noisy Night (Dutton, 2005), and Hans Wilhelm's I'm Not Scared! (Scholastic, 2005).-Laura Scott, Farmington Community Library, MI

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