I continued to make increasingly more image book extensions - typically utilizing props, typically language cards, and protecting Ronn very busy. The Secret River by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon: In a darkish forest in Florida, a lady poet named Calpurnia and her family fear that they may go hungry because the river is empty of fish.

Thanks so much for a terrific checklist of advisable image books...there are so MANY on the market, it may be overwhelming for folks and child cartoon academics of preschoolers...and older youngsters who additionally love image books regardless that the media would have us assume that picture books are passe and everyone only needs to learn sequence books..:) Your listing actually has a number of I hadn't heard of which I'll try straight away...and some that have been on my listing of the perfect image books of 2010.

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