A playful journey into a child's imagination."In my new yellow shirt
I am a duck quacking,splashing through a big puddle of sun.
Watch out! Now I'm a taxi-- HONK! HONK! --zooming down the street."
When a little boy gets a plain yellow shirt for his birthday, his friend Sam thinks it's a very ordinary gift. But the birthday boy has other ideas. Before long, he has transformed himself into many wonderful yellow things.
In this cheerful story, Eileen Spinelli's energetic text and Hideko Takahashi's vibrant pictures prove that, with imagination, the sky's the limit.
When a little girl plays dress up in her leotard and socks she becomes Circus Girl star of the show. Even her toys morph into her dreamscape of circus acts. At each page turn she jumps and tumbles, flies through the air, juggles, spins, balances and contorts.
Vibrant and winsome, modern and timeless the illustrations and words convey a captured childhood moment with directness and simplicity.
Literacy Extenders:
- A reoccurring theme in both of these books is the use of imagination, talk to your child about make believe and using their own imagination.
- Play circus at home...make an obstacle course! Put tape on the floor so they can make believe they are walking a tight rope.
- Put a colored shirt on your child and ask them what are all the different things they can pretend to be.
- Make a color chart and list all the different things that pertain to each color.
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