About this item
A toddler and Dad go shopping, searching for a pet fish. They find and talk about lots of other fish along the way, but where is a fish to feed? Toddlers will love peeping through the die-cut holes as they try to spot that special fish to feed. What's more, adults can learn ways to support toddler language development from A Fish to Feed.Small Talk Books TM are playful stories featuring young children and adults talking and having fun together. The books also show adults how to build young children's language through conversation, during everyday small moments together. Frequent Small Talks add up to big learning gains for young children!Adult characters in the stories model fun and enriching ways to talk with babies and young children. In A Fish to Feed, the father talks a lot with his toddler about what interests the child.
About the Author
Ellen Mayer is a children's book author and early literacy educator who works with diverse families and young children. For many years she was a researcher at Harvard's Graduate School of Education. She is also a brand-new grandma!Ellen creates picture books for young children - and the grown-ups who read to them. Her Small Talk Books® picture book collection, published by Star Bright Books, is fun for little ones and also helps adults learn ways to build the language of babies and young children through conversation during everyday small moments together. The most recent books, created with the Storytelling Math project at the nonprofit STEM education organization TERC, also help adults enrich young children's understanding of how math is part of daily life. BANANA FOR TWO is full of playful conversation about amounts of one and two; CLEAN UP, UP, UP! focuses on spatial relations.Ellen has also collaborated with the award-winning South African author Sindiwe Magona, to write a book for middle grade readers, BOOKS AND BRICKS: How a School Rebuilt the Community.Visit Ellen at www.ellenmayerbooks.com or @ellenmayerbooks on twitter.
