| Girls & Women |
| Imagination & Play |
| Clothing & Dress |
| Juvenile Fiction |
Summary
Summary
Introducing StoryPlay (TM) books--the smart way to read and play together!Introducing StoryPlay Books--the smart way to read and play together! StoryPlay Books offer fun ways to engage with little ones during story time and playtime with prompts and activities that everyone will love! Each quality story will delight readers while building early literacy skills for ages 3-5 by helping them develop: problem-solving abilities, reading comprehension, social development, pre-reading skills, memory strengthand more! Each book includes story-related games and crafts to extend the reading experience. Teachers agree that StoryPlay Books are perfect for parents looking to stimulate and engage their kids at home while having fun together! Each book also shines a spotlight on important topics for this age. Shoe-la-la! -- a fun, rhyming story about four girlfriends searching for the perfect party shoes -- focuses on self-expression.Are you ready to start reading the StoryPlay way? Ready. Set. Smart!
Author Notes
Karen Beaumont is the New York Times bestselling author of I AIN'T GONNA PAINT NO MORE!, illustrated by David Catrow. She is also the recipient of the Geisel Honor for MOVE OVER, ROVER! and three ALA Notable Book citations. As a little girl, Karen loved her tan cowboy boots best of all. She now lives near the beach in Capitola, California, and has traded in her boots for flip flops. She has two daughters who love shoes and a cat named Jake, who runs around barefoot most of the time.
LeUyen Pham is the bestselling illustrator of Real Friends by Shannon Hall, The Princess in Black series with Shannon and Dean Hall, the Freckleface series by Julianne Moore, Hats Off to You and Shoe-la-la! by Karen Beaumont, and Grace for President by Kelly DiPucchio, as well as many others. She lives and works in Los Angeles with her husband and her two adorable sons who are best friends. Visit LeUyen at leuyenpham.com.
Reviews (1)
School Library Journal Review
PreS-Gr 1-Four fashionable friends plan a fancy party, but they need new shoes to wear with their fancy dresses and hair. At the shoe store, a dapper salesman helps them try on rows and rows of shoes, "shoes with zippers,/Shoes with straps,/Shoes with buckles,/Shoes with taps." But nothing is just right. Finally, the quartet head home to redecorate their old shoes, transforming them into "perfect party shoes to wear!" The celebratory rhyming text, filled with descriptive words galore, bounces along at a rapid clip. Diverse characters are decked out in bright, colorful clothing with oodles of feathers, ruffles, and bows. This series installment focuses on developing school readiness skills through prompts and activities. Each title in the series shines a spotlight on a different skill-in this case, self-expression. Extension activities, found on the final endpapers, include a list of items to search and find in the illustrations, discussion and drawing prompts, and sentence stems. Throughout the book, short dialogic reading prompts are printed in page corners, encouraging readers to discuss the story, use their imagination, make narrative predictions, and look for objects in the illustrations. A few prompts fall flat, but overall, they are helpful to grown-ups unfamiliar with dialogic reading. VERDICT Sturdy board covers and discussion prompts make this an ideal title for beginning readers.-Amy Seto Forrester, Denver Public Library © Copyright 2017. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.