Auction! (Reading Together) - Hardcover
Tres Seymour's lively story is humorously brought to life by Cat Bowman Smith's down-home illustrations.
"Whee-oo!" When Aunt Lou hears there's a county auction coming up, she can't contain her excitement (as her young niece observes). But when she and the family arrive at the auction site, Aunt Lou comes face to face with her long-standing rival, Miss Logsdon. One look makes clear that these ladies can't stand to lose to each other, even when bidding on such dubious treasures as old china, a stuffed groundhog, or a zinc tub. Aunt Lou's niece has her eye on a straw hat — the spitting image of Daddy's — which fits her better than her own hair. But can anyone outbid Aunt Lou and Miss Logsdon when they get going?
"Whee-oo!" When Aunt Lou hears there's a county auction coming up, she can't contain her excitement (as her young niece observes). But when she and the family arrive at the auction site, Aunt Lou comes face to face with her long-standing rival, Miss Logsdon. One look makes clear that these ladies can't stand to lose to each other, even when bidding on such dubious treasures as old china, a stuffed groundhog, or a zinc tub. Aunt Lou's niece has her eye on a straw hat — the spitting image of Daddy's — which fits her better than her own hair. But can anyone outbid Aunt Lou and Miss Logsdon when they get going?
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About the Author:
Tres Seymour was born in Kentucky and spent his childhood in Tennessee. He is a prolific author of books for young readers, including JAKE JOHNSON: THE STORY OF A MULE, illustrated by Martha Gray Carrington; OUR NEIGHBOR IS A STRANGE, STRANGE MAN, illustrated by Walter Lyon Krudop; HUNTING THE WHITE COW, illustrated by Wendy Anderson Halperin; and WE PLAYED MARBLES, illustrated by Dan Andreasen. He now lives in Kentucky and works as a National Park Service ranger at Mammoth Cave National Park. This is his first book with Candlewick Press.
Cat Bowman Smith is the illustrator of many books for young readers, such as THE ROSIE STORIES by Cynthia Voigt, OLD GRANNY AND THE BEAN THIEF by Cynthia DeFelice, and THE TROUBLE WITH CATS and THE TROUBLE WITH BABIES by Martha Freeman. This is her first book with Candlewick Press.
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Cat Bowman Smith is the illustrator of many books for young readers, such as THE ROSIE STORIES by Cynthia Voigt, OLD GRANNY AND THE BEAN THIEF by Cynthia DeFelice, and THE TROUBLE WITH CATS and THE TROUBLE WITH BABIES by Martha Freeman. This is her first book with Candlewick Press.
Grade 1-3–A little girl with a hard-earned dollar in hand attends an auction with her family and spies a straw hat that is "...the spitting image of Daddy's." Veteran auction-goers Aunt Lou and the girl's teacher, Miss Logsdon, engage in their usual bidding wars on a number of coveted items, including a stuffed groundhog. When bidding on the old straw hat begins at 25 cents, the two women drive the price up to 95 cents. Just at the last moment, the child calls out her bid of "A dollar bill!" The two older competitors are rendered speechless, the little girl gets her hat, and she is forever known as "...the only person who ever outbid Aunt Lou and Miss Logsdon when they got going." Youngsters will relate to the girl's serendipitous discovery of the hat and her successful quest to obtain it. Smith's detailed, muted watercolor illustrations add to the humor and movement of this satirical story. Adding to the realism, auctioneer Bubba Philpott's bullhorn practically takes on a life of its own with the drone of his repetitive phrases, which are arranged in semicircular patterns and help to re-create the pace of a heated auction when read aloud.– Lynda Ritterman, Atco Elementary School, Waterford, NJ
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- PublisherCandlewick
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0763612421
- ISBN 13 9780763612429
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages32
- IllustratorSmith Cat Bowman
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