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A squirrel's nut changes hands several times before returning to its rightful owner
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Robert Kalan has also written the charming children's books Rain and Blue Sea, both illustrated by Donald Crewes. Kalan holds a master's degree in education and has taught reading to both gifted and remedial students from kindergarten through the fourth grade.
Yossi Abolafia is the illustrator of several I Can Read Books, including It's Snowing! It's Snowing!: Winter Poems by Jack Prelutsky, as well as Barbara Ann Porte's stories about Harry. He is also the author-illustrator of several of his own picture books, including Fox Tale and A Fish for Mrs. Gardenia. He lives with his family near Jerusalem.
Ages 3-6. This short, circular tale, which can also be used as a beginning reader, shows that what goes around comes around--in this case, literally. A gray squirrel is digging up an acorn, but the red squirrel who steals it says the nut has come from his tree. "Stop, thief!" squirrel #1 cries as squirrel #2 runs off. But the acorn is not in the possession of squirrel #2 very long--a crow picks it out of his hand and flies away. And so it goes as other animals--a turtle, a fox, a beaver, a big dog--all take their turns grabbing the acorn. Eventually, it lands right back with the gray squirrel; but on the very last, textless page of the book, there's the red squirrel grinning down at him, ready to start the whole process again. Abolafia's watercolor art, accented with ink, is a step ahead of most cartoon-style art, filled as it is with energy and laughs. Lots of fun for preschoolers, who may also see a bit of themselves in characters so willing to grab what they want to be theirs. Ilene Cooper
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- PublisherGreenwillow Books
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0688118763
- ISBN 13 9780688118761
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages1
- IllustratorAbolafia Yossi
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Stop, Thief!
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Morrow/Avon, New York, NY, U.S.A.
(1993)
ISBN 10: 0688118763
ISBN 13: 9780688118761
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