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Can you tie your shoe? Write your letters and numbers? Make your bed? Or set the table? Can you do it by yourself? Children and parents alike will rejoice as 4- to 6-year-olds achieve these important childhood milestones and many more with the help of this engaging and fun picture book. Award-winning author-illustrator Valorie Fisher uses bright, gorgeous photos to illustrate these topics in a completely fresh way. Parents will love this stylish and funny approach to common childhood tasks, while kids will revel in the joy of independence.,



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Valorie Fisher

Valorie Fisher is the creator of Now You Know How it Works, Now You Know What You Eat, Everything I Need To Know Before I Turn Five, I Can Do It Myself, How High Can a Dinosaur Count? , Ellsworth's Extraordinary Electric Ears and My Big Brother and My Big Sister (both Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Award winners) . She is the illustrator of The Fantastic 5 &10¢ Store by J. Patrick Lewis and the Moxy Maxwell series of books by Peggy Gifford.REVIEWS "a great mix of elegance and goofiness" and "guaranteed fun" wrote School Library Journal in two starred reviews"sassy" starred review Publisher's Weekly"oozes with fun" Booklist"gives her tableaux a sugared quality; you feel vaguely that you ought to be able to pluck the objects off the page and eat them." Wall Street JournalFor more of her "elegance and goofiness" visit valoriefisher.comAWARDSMy Big Brother, Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Award, 2003My Big Sister, Association of Booksellers for Children Best Book for Children 2003 My Big Sister, Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Award, 2004Ellsworth's Extraordinary Electric Ears, Child Magazine Best Books of the Year, 2004Ellsworth's Extraordinary Electric Ears, Nick Jr. Best Books of the Year, 2004 My Big Sister, Parenting Magazine Best Books of the Year, 2004 Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart Little, Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2007Everything I Need To Know Before I'm Five, Publishers Weekly Best Children's Picture Book of 2011EXHIBITIONSThe Original Art: Celebrating the Fine Art of Children's Book Illustration, 2004Society of Illustrators, New York, NYChildren Should Be Seen: The Image of the Child in American Picture-Book ArtKatonah Museum of Art, Katonah NY July 1 - October 21, 2007The Eric Carle Museum, Amherst, MA Nov. 15, 2007 -March 9, 2008Los Angles Public Library, Los Angles, CA October 4, 2008 - Jan.11, 2009 For more of her "elegance and goofiness" visit http://blog.valoriefisher.com/



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