Nosy Rosie

Keller, Holly

ISBN 10: 0060787597 ISBN 13: 9780060787592

Publisher: Greenwillow Books, 2006

Synopsis

Rose is the best at finding lost things. Lose a baseball? Just call Rose. Lost your cookie? Rose will find it.

But one day Meadow calls Rose a not-so-nice nickname. It's a name that sticks. It's a name that Rose would like to lose forever. How she does just that will make you smile!

About this title

About the Author:

Holly Keller has illustrated a number of books in the Lets-Read-and-Find-Out Science series, including Be a Friend to Trees. She is also the author and illustrator of many picture books, including Island Baby and Horace.

Ms. Keller lives in West Redding, Connecticut.

Holly Keller has illustrated a number of books in the Lets-Read-and-Find-Out Science series, including Be a Friend to Trees. She is also the author and illustrator of many picture books, including Island Baby and Horace.

Ms. Keller lives in West Redding, Connecticut.

From School Library Journal:

Starred Review. PreSchool-Grade 2–Keller takes on the subject of name calling in a gentle, simple, and compassionate manner. Rose the fox uses her exceptional sense of smell to find things that others lose, such as a lipstick that smells red, a baseball that smells new, and the babys bottle that smells like milk. Because of her abilities, she is dubbed Nosy Rosie, a name that everyone thinks is funny except Rose. Finally, when family members beg her to find their missing items, she shouts, I dont hear you because thats not my name. The heartfelt dialogue poignantly conveys the little foxs hurt feelings and reads aloud perfectly. The colorful mixture of robust watercolors and simple black lines touchingly reveals each characters attitude through expressive body movement rather than facial features. Each spread has one big illustration that sometimes fills the entire page and an opposite page that displays smaller vignettes on a clean white background. The large text is easy to see even on a colored background, and the satisfying conclusion is one that children will cheer. A great choice to start a discussion of this issue, as well as a sweet story.–Kirsten Cutler, Sonoma County Library, CA
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About this edition

• Publisher: Greenwillow Books
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0060787597
• ISBN 13: 9780060787592
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Keller Holly