She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain - Hardcover

Jonathan Emmett; Deborah Allwright

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1405226498 ISBN 13: 9781405226493

Publisher: Egmont Books Ltd, 2006

Synopsis

She'll be coming round the mountain when she comes. And she'll sure be coming in style, as she whistles like a train as she speeds across the plain and stops us all from feeling glum when she paints the whole town plum.

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About the Author

Jonathan Emmett is an award-winning author, with a host of best-selling picture books to his name. These include Bringing Down the Moon, Once Upon a Time Upon a Nest and Dinosaurs After Dark. Jonathan is also a talented paper engineer and creates amazing pop-up books too. He lives with his wife and two children in Nottingham. Check out Jonathan's fab website at: www.scribblestreet.co.uk Deborah Allwright is the acclaimed illustrator of the best-selling The Night Pirates and is much in demand here and in the USA. Deborah is a keen DJ too. She lives in London.

From School Library Journal

PreSchool-Grade 3—In this version of the traditional American folk song, the heroine is a feisty little girl in pink pajamas, "flowery and frilly,/and they make her look quite silly." Her six white horses have names like Moonbeam and Stardust. When she comes, she will be doing remarkable things like "juggling with jelly" ("Squish-Splat!"), dancing across the rooftops ("Yee-Ha!"), and painting the whole town plum so "the place won't look so glum." A turquoise sky shows off white cowboy-hat clouds, and two foldout pages open wide like green saloon doors to welcome her. The joyful children and animals playing instruments who go out to meet her are small against the landscape, which is done in a palette of Southwestern colors. These illustrations are as lively as the new verses and call for another round of singing, using the hand motions given at the end of the book. Other versions with the same title are by Philemon Sturges (Little, Brown, 2004) and Ann Owen (Picture Window, 2003). This lively addition will surely elicit smiles.—Mary Jean Smith, Southside Elementary School, Lebanon, TN
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About this edition

• Publisher: Egmont Books Ltd
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1405226498
• ISBN 13: 9781405226493
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 25