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Try, try again is the lesson Crow teaches beginning readers in this vibrant early reader about a lonely crow who works hard to make a friend. Crow is all alone. But like all crows, he is very clever. Using autumn leaves for wings, sticks for the body and a crab apple for the head, Crow makes a friend! But winter winds blow in, destroying his creation. Undaunted, Crow fashions another bird friend out of snow but cannot prevent it from melting in the warm spring sun. Alone again, Crow hears the caw, caw, caw of a real, live bird and finally forms a friendship that will last in this warm, satisfying story that celebrates perseverance and ingenuity.About the SeriesI Like to Read books are picture books written and illustrated so that even the newest reader can enjoy a satisfying, quality literary experience. The books in the series are written at kindergarten and early first grade reading levels."These books deftly combine text and art to create a positive experience for new readers." School Library Journal"This series dares to make entertaining reads from short texts and familiar vocabulary" Kirkus Reviews"Each one makes the hard world of learning to read enough fun to encourage children at this critical developmental moment to try another one." Vicky Smith, Children's and YA Editor at Kirkus Reviews
About the Author
Margaret Peot is an artist, writer, teacher and paints costumes for Broadway theater, dance, ice shows and arena shows. BOOK NEWS:Coming October 1, 2021, Margaret is excited to present AT NIGHT (Muddy Boots) , a picture book for ages 0-9 about nocturnal animals and their babies: What's happening in the woods at night while we are snug in bed? New from Pomegranate Publishing is FAIRY HOUSE: A Color, Punch Out and Play Set, Joining TEA PARTY and MUSEUM VISIT in the popular Color, Punch Out and Play Set series of fun paper toys to color, punch out and set up in color-able stage sets. Margaret's other books include the LET'S COLOR TOGETHER series with Sourcebooks: LET'S COLOR TOGETHER, a Shareable Coloring Book for Children and Parents and SECRET WORLDS, full of magical creatures and their tiny abodes, fun to color with a friendSTENCIL CRAFT: Techniques for Fashion, Art and Home (F&W) and an early reader picture book, CROW MADE A FRIEND (Holiday House) (Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2015) . Margaret's book INKBLOT: Drip, Splat and Squish Your Way to Creativity (Boyds Mills 2011) was awarded a Eureka! Silver Medal for non-fiction children's books. She is also the author of THE SUCCESSFUL ARTIST'S CAREER GUIDE (F&W 2012) , ALTERNATIVE ART JOURNALS (F&W 2012) , and MAKE YOUR MARK (Chronicle Books, 2004) , voted one of Library Journal's best how-to books of 2004. An avid believer that art making can be for everyone, Margaret has presented art workshops with cancer survivors, elders, children, parent and teen groups, writers, nurses and caregivers, at The Creative Center at University Settlement's Creative Aging conferences, and their Artist-in-Residence Training program, with EngAGE Utah, at Gilda's Club, The Huntsman Cancer Institute, Operation Exodus in NYC, and at Miami University at Scripps and Opening Minds Through Art.Margaret has painted costumes at Parsons-Meares, LTD for more than thirty years. Projects include Broadway (Hadestown, Moulin Rouge, Aladdin, The Lion King, Wicked, Turn Off the Dark, Will Rogers Follies, Shrek the Musical, Phantom of the Opera, Mary Poppins, among many others) , dance (ABT, Joffrey Ballet, Pilobolus, Feld Ballet, Nevada Ballet) , film (Bram Stoker's Dracula) , as well as for circuses, arena shows and ice shows. Margaret will be teaching fabric painting at FIT (New York's Fashion Institute of Technology) this fall and Dying for the Theater Spring of 2022 at SUNY Purchase. She has taught costume painting and presented lectures on making a living as an artist at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, UNC, BYU, The Self Employment in the Arts 2013 conference in Chicago, at FIT, Miami University, and USITT-SE in Athens, GA. Margaret is a member of USA 829.Margaret graduated from Miami University, with an emphasis in painting and fiber arts, and is proud to be serving on the first advisory board for the College of the Creative Arts. For more information, please visit
