Let's Go!: The Story of Getting from There to Here - Hardcover

Flatt, Lizann

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1897349025 ISBN 13: 9781897349021

Publisher: Owlkids, 2007

Synopsis

This fun book takes youngsters on an amazing journey across our continent and through time to discover all the methods humans have used to get from one place to another. From the first travelers” who crossed the Bering Land Bridge on foot, through steamships, bicycles, cars, and planes, to contemporary space trips, the history of transportation is one of imagination and ingenuity. This lively journey is spiced up by a cute dog who engages readers with search and find” questions throughout, while a final spread of amazing Did You Know” facts presents additional information. Lizann Flatt’s lyrical text and Scot Ritchie’s stunning artwork bring this rich history to life for young readers.

About this title

About the Author

LIZANN FLATT has written many information books for children, including The Nature Treasury and Let’s Go! A former editor of chickaDEE Magazine, her children’s writing has won many honors, including a Distinguished Achievement Award from The Association of Educational Publishers. She lives in Muskoka, ON.

Review

...it’s all about the ways to get around and across Canada. Lively, colorful, full-page illustration.

This book would be a wonderful addition to a unit on travel or change and introduces a good range of vocabulary (nouns and verbs) related to transportation...Well worth purchasing for any primary grades classroom.

Excellently done...Any child that loves trucks and cars will be intrigued by this illustrated timeline and will love the trivia included at the end of the book.

From the Stone Age to today young readers get a glimpse into what it was like to travel across the country. From snowshoes to ships, from horses to cars, from trains to planes and the possibility of everyone traveling by space ship in the future. The fun illustrations and simple text show readers how our travel has changed over the years. You'll also find some interesting “Did you know?” facts about travel at the end of the book.

Fire up your imagination and get ready to embark on an adventure that starts in the days before cars, buses, and bikes, winds its way to the present, and takes a turn toward the future...You can read this transportation tale straight through the first time and then start over for an interactive challenge.

Let’s Go! is an enticing history of transportation suitable for primary and junior students with cross-curriculum applications for literacy, social studies and science...Simple sentences with carefully chosen descriptors enrich understanding and enhance enjoyment...A delightful resource.

For sharing reading time with younger children, this delightful picture book shoes how we have learned to travel...

The book offers a fresh look at a subject which is covered in many elementary classrooms; this book would make an ideal read-aloud, especially as an introduction to a research unit...Librarians who are looking to introduce transportation to students in a new and fun way will do well to purchase this volume.

The book is rich in descriptive language and follows a logical timeline...a fun selection for reading or browsing and a nice supplement to units on the history of transportation.

Just thinking about how much travel has changed in the last few centuries is mind-boggling. Let’s Go! The Story of Getting from There to Here gives children a greater understanding of how life changes with each new method of travel. It opens their eyes to the way they travel and makes them take more notice of their everyday surroundings... A great addition to the classroom as well as the home.

About this edition

• Publisher: Owlkids
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1897349025
• ISBN 13: 9781897349021
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 40
• Illustrator: Ritchie Scot