Want to Play? (Confetti Kids #2): (Dive Into Reading)

by Paula Yoo, Shirley Ng-Benitez (Illustrator)

Overview

In this early chapter book in the popular Confetti Kids series, a diverse group of kids decide to play pretend. There's no limit to what they imagine they can be!

It's a warm, sunny day, and the gang heads to the neighborhood playground to play. What should they play? Henry wants to play basketball, and Padma wants to play Follow the Leader. Finally Pablo comes up with a great idea: to play pretend. It's a game that everyone can do easily. They can pretend to be archaeologists, astronauts, and explorers. There's no limit to what they imagine they can be!

Check out the other titles in this series:

LILY'S NEW HOME (CONFETTI KIDS #1) • WANT TO PLAY? (CONFETTI KIDS #2) • BLOCK PARTY (CONFETTI KIDS #3) • MUSIC TIME (CONFETTI KIDS #4) • THE GARDEN (CONFETTI KIDS #5) • THE PERFECT GIFT (CONFETTI KIDS #6) • FOLLOW THAT MAP! (CONFETTI KIDS #7) • THE BUDDY BENCH (CONFETTI KIDS #8) • PABLO'S PET (CONFETTI KIDS #9) • THE PROTEST (CONFETTI KIDS #10) • THE TALENT SHOW (CONFETTI KIDS #11) • A SPECIAL GOODBYE (CONFETTI KIDS #12)

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781620142592
Publisher:	Lee & Low Books
Publication date:	02/01/2016
Series:	Confetti Kids , #2
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	799,062
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)
Lexile:	390L (what's this?)
Age Range:	5 - 7 Years

About the Author

Paula Yoo is an author and screenwriter whose children's books for Lee & Low include Sixteen Years in Sixteen Seconds, Shining Star, and several titles in the Confetti Kids series. Her titles have been recognized by the International Literacy Association, the Texas Bluebonnet Award Masterlist, and Lee & Low's New Voices Award. She and her husband live in Los Angeles, California, where she works in television. You can visit her online at paulayoo.com.

Shirley Ng-Benitez is a Bay Area children’s book author/illustrator who has illustrated 35+ children’s books, and has a background in Graphic Design (GabbyandCo.com), and hand-lettering (American Greetings, Inc.). She works and experiments in traditional mediums including watercolor, gouache, pen&ink, oils, and painted & cut-paper collage. Her work draws from a deep wish to add more compassion and connection in the world through her art and stories. She founded @AWEtober on Instagram, an annual art auction fundraiser since ’20, whose efforts have raised tens of thousands for various organizations supporting victims of the California wildfires, and efforts in coral reef restoration around the globe. She lives with her family and two black cats, and is thrilled to be working on her debut picture book, DOWN, THROUGH, UP by Quill Tree Books, Winter ‘25. Please visit shirleyngbenitez.com for more.

Editorial Reviews

Junior Library Guild Selection; Choices

From the Publisher

2015-12-08
In the companion title to Yoo and Ng-Benitez's Lily's New Home (2015), Lily enjoys playing with a diverse group of friends in her new neighborhood. A helpful title-page illustration introduces Lily and her friends, Henry (the only white child), Mei, Pablo, and Padma, by name in order to support new readers in keeping track of them from one page to the next. Then, the first brief chapter opens with Pablo heading outside to read after being distracted by his sisters' indoor play. He abandons his book, however, when Lily comes by with her mother and invites him to go to the park. They are soon joined by Mei, Henry, and Padma, and they go on the swings, play basketball, and climb on the play structure. Ng-Benitez's inviting multimedia art deftly conveys a shift when the children's play moves into imaginary scenarios as verso-page depictions of the playground come into dialogue with facing recto images of imagined scenes in a cave, at the beach, in space, and so on. When rain threatens, the children all go to Pablo's house, where they join his sisters in their play. Young readers are sure to want to join Pablo, Lily, and all of their friends, and it's wonderful to note that the diverse characterization will aid in making many feel all the more included. (Early reader. 6-8)

Kirkus Reviews