No foolin’! The 3rd stunner in the *giveaway series to celebrate my 4th blogiversary!Author: John Langstaff
Illustrator: Feodor Rojankovsky
Publisher: Voyager Books/Harcourt, 1957
Age: 3 and up
Themes: mothers, meadow animals, cumulative stories
Opening: Over in the meadow in the sand in the sun, lived an old mother turtle and her little turtle one.
Summary: (from my library catalog) A presentation of an old counting rhyme about meadow animals and their activities.
Why I like this book: This was one of my favorites to read aloud when the kids were very young, and one they learned by heart quite easily. This rhyme has been rewritten and illustrated numerous times since, with the same or with a completely different cast of characters. Some of my faves: Ezra Jack Keats, David A. Carter, Louise Voce, Jane Cabrera, and Paul Galdone.
Resources/Activities: Make lists of animals and/or insects and identify some of their regular activities; Discuss where we find meadows; visit a meadow.
For more Perfect Picture Book picks with teacher/parent resources, check out the list on Susanna Hill’s blog HERE.
*giveaway contest rules: find an animal that is present in all four of the classics in the series of picture books, starting with Rosie’s Walk. Mention your guess in the comment section after the fourth book is featured on April 8th.
Love, love, love – but your puzzler is not getting any easier!
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hehehe!
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This was my era of PBs. I would have been 6. Don’t remember reading it. I love the older books that you find that are still so relevant today. Beautiful!
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It’s a gem for sure!
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Looks like a great book for spring! My guess is a fox. 🙂
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This would be a great one for a child to use as a frame for writing. Great rhythm! “Over in the __, in the __, in the __, sat a/an ___ ___ and her little ___….”
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It’s been used in so many different ways for so many different environments too, Beth.
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Reading that opening line aloud totally hooked me. And the illustrations are gorgeous, too. Lovely choice!
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I love this because my sister learned the song in grade 1 and taught it to me…very nostalgic. 🙂
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Aww! You need to call M. and sing it back! Ha!
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Heehee…I would except we both don’t like to talk on the phone. I’ll sing it to her when I next see her! 😄
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Sometimes my daughter sends me audio-clips of her riffing on the uke!
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I’ll bet that is the cutest thing to see! I play the uke, too, though nowhere as well as she does, I’m sure. 😊
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What a beautiful spring pick!
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This is a fun one to sing!
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The rhythm is so catchy, it’s a guaranteed “earworm.” Perfect!
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This is a fun book to read; a fun song to sing. Easy to make up verses… which is why my kids loved it.
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That sounds like a great book! 🙂 The illustrations are beautiful!
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Just love the rhyme…and kids do also. 😉 Your reviews are lovely, Julie…you create a desire to run to the library and grab whatever book you spotlight. 😉
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Must have something to do with the library being my second home!
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Hahaha…me, too!
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