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

Thompson, Richard; Spicer, Maggee

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 colourful 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 colour 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

Richard Thompson is the popular author of many books for young readers, including When They Are Up, The Night Walker, The Follower, Fishes in the Ocean, and There is Music in a Pussycat.
Maggee Spicer has previously collaborated with her husband Richard Thompson on When They Are Up and Fishes in the Ocean. She is an elementary school teacher and lives with her husband and daughter Jesse in Prince George, British Columbia.
Kim LaFave is a prolific picture book artist with many titles to his name, including Amos's Sweater, Ben Over Night, and Big Ben, which earned him the Mr. Christie's Book Award Silver Seal. He has also won the Governor General's Award, the Ruth Schwartz Children's Book Award, and the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award. Kim lives on the west coast of Canada, in Robert's 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