Spring Things - Hardcover

Raczka, Bob

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807575968 ISBN 13: 9780807575963

Publisher: Albert Whitman, 2007

Synopsis

Nature is busy budding and flowering; baby animals are being born; gardeners are planting; and everywhere children are running and playing. In rhyming text, the author celebrates Spring.

About this title

About the Authors

Bob Raczka lives with his wife, sons, daughter, and dog, Rufus, in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. He is the author of several children’s books, but Guyku is his first with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Visit Bob at www.bobraczka.com

In college, I majored in my two favorite subjects, reading and drawing, which has proved to be an endlessly useful combination for making picture books. So far, I've illustrated 11 books (one of which I also wrote) plus lots of ancillary educational pieces. A good day is painting an assignment in photoshop for awhile, then painting for myself in oil paint, with npr and cat Rufus for company.

Reviews

PreSchool-Grade 3—Enliven your theme lists for seasons, spring, verbs, or just fun with this cheerful picture book. Spring ends with "ing," and Raczka takes children from winter's end to summer's beginning with several befitting "ing" words. From "Melting, dripping, cold's grip slipping" to "buzzing, humming—summer's coming!" readers will remember all of the things they love to do when the weather changes. Using a spring palette, Stead's paintings add an entertaining element and useful clarification to the active text. "Trees leaf-outing" and "lemonading" provide humor and fit the rhyme pattern but might hamper the book's value as a verb-teaching tool. The book includes a four-question rhyming quiz that has the same uplifting spirit as the book.—June Wolfe, Bushnell-Sage Library, Sheffield, MA
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This cheerful picture book celebrates the season in pithy, rhyming phrases and sunny artwork. With only a few words on each double-page spread, the text features apt expressions that are sometimes childlike or inventive, such as "Sunning, warming, thunderstorming" and "Biking, blading, lemonading." Stead's paintings have an informal air that suits the text. A series of nicely composed, horizontal paintings portray children enjoying the pleasures of the season, from baseball to hopscotch to planting; they create a sense of motion as well as a sense of joy. A fine seasonal read-aloud choice for story programs or lap-sit sessions. Carolyn Phelan
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Spring Things

By Bob Raczka, Judy Stead

ALBERT WHITMAN & Company

Copyright © 2007 Bob Raczka
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-0-8075-7596-3

CHAPTER 1

Melting,

dripping,

cold's grip slipping.

Sunning, warming,

thurderstorming.

Budding,

sprouting,

trees leaf-outing.

Throwing,

catching,

babies hatching.

(Continues...)

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Edition details

• Publisher: Albert Whitman
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807575968
• ISBN 13: 9780807575963
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Stead Judy
• Number of pages: 32