The Best Way to Play: A Little Bill Book for Beginning Readers, Level 3 (Oprah's Book Club)

Cosby, Bill

ISBN 10: 0590956175 / ISBN 13: 9780590956178

Published by Cartwheel, 1997

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Best Way to Play: A Little Bill Book for Beginning Readers, Level 3 (Oprah's Book Club)
• Publisher: Cartwheel
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0590956175
• ISBN 13: 9780590956178
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: Honeywood, Varnette P.; Honeywood, Varnette
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

This easy-to-read story about friendship by comedian and storyteller Bill Cosby is now a Scholastic Reader!

Little Bill and his friends LOVE the TV show Space Explorers. And so when the new Space Explorers video game comes out, they each want a copy.

But when Little Bill asks his parents to buy him the game, they say no. So Little Bill and his friends go to their friend Andrew's house to play the game.

What they discover, though, is that the video game isn't nearly as much fun nor as challenging as what their imaginations can dream up!

Reviews

Kindergarten-Grade 3. Cosby turns his hand to writing, telling stories about situations that children often face. In The Best Way to Play, Little Bill, the narrator, and his friends get caught up in the excitement and marketing of their favorite TV cartoon, Space Explorers, and desperately want their parents to buy them the expensive video game. They become bored with it quickly, however, and realize that it's more fun to play Space Explorers outside. In The Meanest Thing to Say, Little Bill comes face to face with a bully. The Treasure Hunt takes him on a voyage of self-exploration. It seems to him that everyone in his family has a special quality. After a full day of searching, he discovers that his is "telling stories and making people laugh." These titles feature short chapters, making them appropriate for beginning readers?but they're also short enough to be read aloud. Honeywood's illustrations are bright and eye-catching, and show Little Bill and his friends and family as having distinctive personalities and characteristics. Each book comes with a letter to parents from a child psychiatrist about the subject matter in that book. While the writing is nothing extraordinary, Cosby has a good grasp of the issues and how the world looks through children's eyes. The primarily African-American characters also make these books welcome additions to easy-reader collections.?Dina Sherman, Brooklyn Children's Museum, NY
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