Let's Clean Up! - Hardcover

Anderson, Peggy Perry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0618196021 ISBN 13: 9780618196029

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2002

Synopsis

Enamored with his newly neat room, especially because there is so much space, Joe can't decide which toy to play with first and pulls them all out of his closet, creating a rather large mess--much to the chagrin of his mom!

About this title

About the Author

Peggy Perry Anderson is a full-time elementary school art teacher and mother of three living with her husband in Owasso, Oklahoma.

Reviews

reschool-Grade 1--Like Jonathan London's Froggy, Joe is joyful and innocently mischievous. After his mother cleans his room, the little frog is so excited about having space to play and finding his toys that he messes it up again. Feeling guilty, he offers to pick up after himself and throws everything out the window. Mother doesn't get angry-she helps Joe restore order. The brightly colored cartoon drawings on white backgrounds include acute attention to details like the escaped pet lizard on nearly every spread and the names of the games in the closet. Told in rhyme, with essentially one easy sentence in large type per page, this all-around fun story for preschoolers is a good choice for beginning readers as well.
Sharon R. Pearce, Geronimo Public School, OK
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A mother frog tackles the bedroom of her sloppy son in Let's Clean Up! by Peggy Perry Anderson, a companion to Out to Lunch. Before long, the little amphibian's room returns to ruin; his unorthodox attempts to clean it up himself bring humorous results.

Ages 4-7. In Out to Lunch (1998), irrepressible little frog Joe is unable to sit still for lunch at a fancy restaurant, despite lessons in manners. He returns in this latest title to learn a few things about cleaning up. When Mother Frog tidies Joe's messy room, he's so delighted that he immediately starts to play in his clean new space, quickly creating another disaster zone. Mother cries when she sees her work undone, so Joe cleans his room himself . . . almost. Despite the end's heavy message, the simple, rhyming text will appeal to both story-hour groups and beginning readers. Little ones, and their harried parents, will easily spot themselves in the believable, anthropomorphic frogs tackling a common daily struggle, while the bright clean-lined drawings show Joe's world in realistic detail. Gillian Engberg
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Edition details

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0618196021
• ISBN 13: 9780618196029
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 31