It's time to start putting away beach towels and bathing suits and start taking out backpacks and lunchboxes. In just a few short weeks, it will be time to go back to school.
Do you have a little grasshopper who is excited to learn to read at school this year? Then we have the perfect book for you! At The Gifted Grasshopper, Wolf! By Becky Bloom is one of our all time favorites.
When a hungry, nearly penniless itinerant wolf decides to make a meal of some barnyard animals, he finds that they won't even look up from their books. "This is a farm for educated animals," they tell him. The wolf is caught so off guard that he forgets about his appetite and enrolls in school. When he takes his newfound knowledge back to the farm and proudly reads, "Run wolf! Run!" the animals go on "reading their own books, not the least impressed." Not until the wolf makes repeat visits to the library and buys his own storybook (with his last coins) can he read "with confidence and passion," entrancing the cow, pig and duck with story after story. The foursome decides to travel the world as storytellers, and the endpapers show them reading books to children everywhere.
Visit The Gifted Grasshopper today to purchase this charming title.
Do you have a little grasshopper who is excited to learn to read at school this year? Then we have the perfect book for you! At The Gifted Grasshopper, Wolf! By Becky Bloom is one of our all time favorites.
When a hungry, nearly penniless itinerant wolf decides to make a meal of some barnyard animals, he finds that they won't even look up from their books. "This is a farm for educated animals," they tell him. The wolf is caught so off guard that he forgets about his appetite and enrolls in school. When he takes his newfound knowledge back to the farm and proudly reads, "Run wolf! Run!" the animals go on "reading their own books, not the least impressed." Not until the wolf makes repeat visits to the library and buys his own storybook (with his last coins) can he read "with confidence and passion," entrancing the cow, pig and duck with story after story. The foursome decides to travel the world as storytellers, and the endpapers show them reading books to children everywhere.
Visit The Gifted Grasshopper today to purchase this charming title.
