Young children are naturally talkative and eager to build on their knowledge of words and their meanings. These 'Talk-Together' books are designed to make early learning as enjoyable as possible. Bold, inviting illustrations are labeled in large type for children who are beginning to recognize letter shapes. The questions and statements in smaller type are helpful prompts for grown-ups to encourage children to explore the pictures further.
Using pictures, words and questions, the "Talk Together" series of books offers pre-schoolers a chance to tell their own stories. This book is made up of colorful paper-collage style illustrations that will hold children's interest and bolster their vocabulary at the same time. The text is specially designed to get parents and kids talking.
Young children are naturally talkative and eager to build on their knowledge of words and their meanings. These 'Talk-Together' books are designed to make early learning as enjoyable as possible. Bold, inviting illustrations are labeled in large type for children who are beginning to recognize letter shapes. The questions and statements in smaller type are helpful prompts for grown-ups to encourage children to explore the pictures further.
When Bridget the alligator arrives in the mail, she's only the size of a key chain! But after Zack soaks her in water, she grows into a real live alligator. Bridget wrestles the garden hose and swings from the monkey bars. And what other alligator can do cartwheels?
(Re)Imagining the world: Children’s Literature’s Response to Changing Times considers how writers of fiction for children imagine ‘the world’, not one universal world, but different worlds: imaginary, strange, familiar, even monstrous worlds. The chapters in this collection discuss how fiction for children engages with some of the changes brought about by new technologies, information literacy, consumerism, migration, politics, different family structures, cosmopolitanism, new and old monsters.
