I Can Do It Too! - Hardcover

Baicker, Karen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1929766831 ISBN 13: 9781929766833

Publisher: Chronicle Books, 2003

Synopsis

Anyone can pour juice, bake a cake, and kiss away hurts—right? But maybe—just maybe—it’s not so easy when you are very small!
Daddy pours juice without even thinking about it, Grandma bakes a cake effortlessly, and the next-door neighbor rides a bike as if he were born on one! Whatever is happening, our little heroine wants to join in and “do it too.” With caring support from her family and many friends, she not only finds she can do it too, but soon she is big enough to pass on loving encouragement of her own. The simple cadence of the text and the direct-to-the-heart art result in a book as warm and generous as its message.

About this title

About the Author:

Karen Baicker lives in Maplewood, New Jersey, with her husband and two young children, Lucy and Jake. Tumble Me Tumbily was her first children's book, and she is also the author of I Can Do It Too! and Pea Pod Babies . Besides writing for children, she is

Ken Wilson-Max lives in London, where his art is as enthusiastically acclaimed as it is in the US. In addition to illustrating books for children by various writers, he also illustrates books for children that he has written himself, such as Big Silver Spa

From Booklist:

PreS. Nothing is complicated here; just a pure story line and kid-friendly artwork that zero in on a child's mastery of the everyday. A young African American girl, bows dotting her hair, narrates the text. Each spread informs the listener what some member of the narrator's family can do (Daddy pours the juice, Grandma bakes, etc.), followed by a tag line that children will respond to, "I can do it too!" The bold art brings the characters up close, with the adults on the left-hand side of the page and the girl on the right (except for one picture of two children together). Children who look closely will notice that the little girl doesn't always do things perfectly (juice spills, buttons are done up crookedly), but her enthusiasm is contagious. The pictures, in Wilson-Max's signature style, have the look of kids' artwork, but the perspectives and colors are unobtrusively sophisticated. A winner for perusing alone or reading at storytimes. Ilene Cooper
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About this edition

• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1929766831
• ISBN 13: 9781929766833
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 24
• Illustrator: Wilson-Max Ken