We'll All Go Sailing (First Flight) - Hardcover

Spicer, Maggie; Thompson, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1550416626 ISBN 13: 9781550416626

Publisher: Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 2001

Synopsis

Richard Thompson and Maggee Spicer join forces with Kim LaFave in this colorful tour of the seas. The young narrator and his friends, Maggee and Jesse, travel to a myriad of places to look at sea life that is every color of the rainbow. Children will delight in the pink octopus, the blue manatee, and the orange barracuda, to name but a few.

Richard Thompson and Maggee Spicer have created a rhythmic poem (in the same vein as their ealier collaboration, Fishes in the Ocean) that will encourage the very youngest of new readers. Together with Kim La Fave's bold and playful illustrations, this delightful poem will make a fine book To show what we'll see, When we all go sailing On the rainbow seas.

About this title

About the Author

Husband and wife team Richard Thompson and Maggie Spicer have collaborated on three books in the We'll All Go series as well as the early reader, Fishes in the Ocean. Richard is also the author of The Follower, The Night Walker, Then and Now, and There is Music in a Pussy Cat. They make their home in Prince George, British Columbia.

Kim LaFave:

Award-winning illustrator Kim LaFave has illustrated many books for children including Big Ben, We'll All Go series and the early readers Emma's Emu, Andrew's Magnificent Mountain of Mittens and Andrew - Catch That Cat!. Kim lives with his family in Roberts Creek, British Columbia.

Reviews

PreSchool-Grade 1-Three youngsters set sail on the big, wide sea, learning colors and discovering new creatures. The rollicking, rhythmic text is complemented by vibrant primary and secondary hues. The children are shown aboard their small vessel on a flap that covers half of one page of the spread and can be lifted to reveal new marine animals. For example, "We'll all go sailing/On the deep, blue sea./And what will we see/In the sea, we three?" "A pink octopus,/And a purple shark!/That's what we'll see/In the deep, blue sea." The final spread depicts the friends making a book of their adventures. The old-fashioned, winsome cartoon characters are reminiscent of Tin Tin or Little Orphan Annie, with their tufts of blond hair and hollow round eyes. A serviceable addition to picture-book collections.
DeAnn Tabuchi, San Anselmo Public Library, CA
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Maggee Spicer and Richard Thompson, illus. by Kim LaFave, a rhyming text about three friends at sea and spreads enhanced with gatefold flaps focus readers' attention on colors.

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

Ages 4-6. This well-designed picture book introduces both colors and sea animals. The first page shows three children headed to their sailboat. Each double-page spread that follows features a half-page flap on the left bearing a variation on this question, "We'll all go sailing / On the coal black sea. / And what will we see / in the sea, we three?" The flap folds out to give the answer: "A yellow seahorse/ And a hot pink squid! / That's what we'll see / In the coal black sea." The repeated pattern of the rhyming text and the visual clues that allow children to guess make this a good book to read aloud, though the repetitions can become tiresome around the eighth or ninth refrain. Still, the boldly conceived and vividly colored artwork is visually absorbing, and the jaunty air of the child characters remains charming throughout. For larger collections. Carolyn Phelan
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Edition details

• Publisher: Fitzhenry and Whiteside
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1550416626
• ISBN 13: 9781550416626
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: LaFave Kim
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32