About this item
When spunky preschooler Rosa decided to help out her busy Mama, she enlists Grandpa's help to put away the clean laundry. Can little Rosa get this big job done before Mama returns from shopping? Join Rosa and her grandpa on a laundry day romp around the house where their adventures lead to still another surprise for Mama! Grandpa uses some big words as he plays with Rosa: difficult, enormous, terrific, and dangerous. He uses them in ways that are easy to understand. Preschoolers will revel in Rosa's delightful adventure and will love learning big words just like Rosa does.Small Talk BooksTM are playful stories featuring young children and adults having fun and engaging in rich conversation. The adults talk with children in ways that can help bolster young children's language development.
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.
