I Want to Help! - Hardcover

Adams, Diane

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1561456306 ISBN 13: 9781561456307

Publisher: Peachtree Publishing Company, 2012

Synopsis

Emily Pearl already knows a lot, except perhaps how to ask for help when she’s unsure.
Emily can count to fourteen. She can write her own name. She can tell what is different and what is the same. And she’s quite sure she can do things herself. Not only that, she wants to be the perfect helper for her new teacher, Ms. Glenn. But while Emily is mastering all sorts of skills, she does need a little help herself every now and then―especially at the end of the day, when she’s waiting to get picked up and is just a little bit scared.
Diane Adams’s delightful, rhyming story and Nancy Hayashi’s charming illustrations colorfully capture the chaotic ups and downs in the life of a preschooler.

About this title

About the Author:

Diane Adams is an art and writing teacher. She has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Redlands. She lives in California.

Nancy Hayashi has illustrated seven picture books, including I Can Do It Myself!, Bunny Bungalow, which won a 2000 Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Award; Wanda’s Monster, a CCBC Choice; and What Did You Do Today?,also a CCBC Choice. She lives in California.

From Booklist:

Every classroom has one: a kid overly eager to help out the teacher. Meet Emily Pearl, a very smart girl. She can count to 14, write her own name, and do the hokey pokey. And that’s not all: “She can wallop the baseball and score a home run. / She can leap high in dodgeball and be the best one.” Some of her accomplishments, though, come with a cost; for example, she cleans up the blocks while other kids are still playing with them. The details captured in Hayashi’s genial watercolor, pen, and pencil illustrations don’t make this a laugh-out-loud affair, but feature plenty of warm humor, as when showing Emily using a toy dump truck to scoop up the class rabbit’s droppings. Adams, meanwhile, offers up a pleasant turnaround at the end: when Dad is late picking her up, Emily gets a little scared. This time, though, it’s Ms. Glenn who asks for help. It distracts Emily just long enough that she stays busy and happy until the final page. Grades K-2. --Julie Cummins

About this edition

• Publisher: Peachtree Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1561456306
• ISBN 13: 9781561456307
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Hayashi Nancy