Show and Tell Bunnies - Softcover

Kathryn Lasky

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0744572533 ISBN 13: 9780744572537

Publisher: Walker Books Ltd, 2000

Synopsis

"The book has energy, movement, and a solid, comforting understanding of the emotional trials of a first grader." —School Library Journal

Clyde is worried. Show and Tell is just a couple of days away, and he doesn't know what to bring. Then by pure luck, down in the dark and dusty basement at home, Clyde discovers a unique and mysterious object—something that will hold his entire class spellbound. Young readers who have already met Clyde in LUNCH BUNNIES and SCIENCE FAIR BUNNIES, along with those who are meeting Clyde for the first time, will appreciate both his worries and his triumphs.
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Review

Show and Tell isn't such a bad first-grade event if you have a two-headed hedgehog or a potato that looks like the president. But what if you don't have anything special to bring? This is exactly what happens to young Clyde in award-winning author Kathryn Lasky and Marylin Hafner's Show and Tell Bunnies. The night before the big day, Clyde is desperate. He descends into the dark, dusty basement in hopes that his great-grandfather's thermometer collection hadn't been thrown out after all. But what's this? He is strangely drawn to a gray, lopsided, furry-looking ball. Without further ado, he puts it in a box to bring to Show and Tell the next day. Despite the seemingly ordinary nature of Clyde's offering, everyone is very kind--particularly Mrs. McFuzz who exclaims, "It's a mystery object! Sometimes they're the most exciting." After lunch, however, Clyde's mystery object hatches into 244 tiny baby spiderlings, all of which sail up, up, and out of the classroom window on long streamers of silk. Clyde's surprise is the hit of the whole class! Kids will readily relate to the sweet, comical story and endearing illustrations, featuring the same characters that appear in Lasky and Hafner's Lunch Bunnies. (Click to see a sample spread! Illustrations © 1998 Marylin Hafner, Text © 1998 Kathryn Lasky) (Ages 4 to 8) --Karin Snelson

About the Author

Kathryn Lasky has written more than forty books for children and has received numerous awards for her work, including VISION OF BEAUTY:THE STORY OF SARAH BREEDLOVE WALKER and SUGARING TIME, a Newbery Honor Book. She says that SHOW AND TELL BUNNIES is "part of the continuing saga of the problems that loom large in the lives of first graders as they try to figure out their world."

Marilyn Hafner loves Clyde and was thrilled to illustrate this second book featuring him. "The stories about him," she says, "have the perfect take on the real fears of children as they start to face the world away from home." She is the illustrator and author of many books for children, including A YEAR WITH MOLLY AND EMMETT and MOMMIES DON'T GET SICK!
From the Trade Paperback edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Walker Books Ltd
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0744572533
• ISBN 13: 9780744572537
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 40