Snake and Lizard - Hardcover

Joy Cowley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1933605839 ISBN 13: 9781933605838

Publisher: Kane Miller Book Pub, 2008

Synopsis

From award-winning author Joy Cowley comes an engaging story of two unlikely, but inseparable friends. Snake is elegant, calm and a little self-centered, while Lizard is exuberant and irrepressible. Through a series of small (and not so small) adventures, the two friends bicker, compete with each other, go into business and finally, end up as lifelong friends.

There is something the matter with your voice.
Ga-runch! Ga-runch! said Snake. I've got a frog in my throat! she whispered. Lizard said, Oh, I know how to fix that, and he gave Snake a mighty slap on her back. The frog shot out of Snake s mouth. It landed in the grass and, quick as a blink, it hopped away.
My supper! cried Snake. That was my supper!

About this title

About the Author

Joy Cowley is one of New Zealand s most prolific and successful writers of children's books. She has written more than 600 titles for all ages and her books have won numerous awards around the world including the Margaret Mahy Medal and the Roberta Long Medal. She lives in New Zealand where, when she s not writing, she enjoys spending time with her family.

From School Library Journal

Starred Review. Kindergarten-Grade 4—This engaging chapter book from Australia tells of the humorous exploits of Snake and Lizard. They meet, quarrel, become friends, and then quarrel again; their delightful antics touchingly reveal the normal travails of an active friendship. The short chapters also impart bits of wisdom: it is good to share, and friends can like different things. In one particularly funny vignette, Snake is eating a frog when Lizard, who thinks that Snake is choking, slaps her on the back, and, of course, allows the frog to escape. Another entertaining story describes how the two friends each set up a business, and then trade the same dime back and forth buying corn cakes and cactus juice from one another. The charming illustrations are suffused with warm desert colors, and the evocative landscapes enhance the brief adventures. One endearing picture shows the red, black, and white striped snake and tan-colored lizard lying facing one another, their features expressively genial, as they "talked and talked as though they'd known each other for years." Lovely bookmaking includes small pictures interspersed with the large, bold font, some to the side of a decorative letter that begins the text of a chapter. A creamy white page with only a tiny picture of a primary story element precedes each chapter, and many of the creatures that inhabit the stories appear on the inside front and back cover pages. A great read-aloud.—Kirsten Cutler, Sonoma County Library, CA
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About this edition

• Publisher: Kane Miller Book Pub
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1933605839
• ISBN 13: 9781933605838
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 85
• Illustrator: Gavin Bishop