She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain - Hardcover

Emmett, Jonathan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1416936521 ISBN 13: 9781416936527

Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2007

Synopsis

Forget everything you know about who's comin' 'round that mountain! This pink-pajama-wearing, jelly-jar-juggling, rooftop-dancing cowgirl is sure to charm the spurs off any rancher, and tickle the funny bone of the most ornery varmint.

This classic song has brand-new verses and enough "tee-hees", "toot-toots", and "squish-splats" to keep kids singin', shoutin', and readin' again and again.

About this title

About the Author:

Jonathan Emmett is an award-winning author with a host of bestselling picture books to his name, These include Bringing Down the Moon; Once Upon A Time, Upon a Nest; and Dinosaurs After Dark. Jonathan is also a talented paper engineer and creates amazing pop-up books, too.

Deborah Allwright is the acclaimed illustrator of the bestselling The Night Pirates. She is a keen DJ, too.

From School Library Journal:

PreSchool-Grade 3—In this version of the traditional American folk song, the heroine is a feisty little girl in pink pajamas, "flowery and frilly,/and they make her look quite silly." Her six white horses have names like Moonbeam and Stardust. When she comes, she will be doing remarkable things like "juggling with jelly" ("Squish-Splat!"), dancing across the rooftops ("Yee-Ha!"), and painting the whole town plum so "the place won't look so glum." A turquoise sky shows off white cowboy-hat clouds, and two foldout pages open wide like green saloon doors to welcome her. The joyful children and animals playing instruments who go out to meet her are small against the landscape, which is done in a palette of Southwestern colors. These illustrations are as lively as the new verses and call for another round of singing, using the hand motions given at the end of the book. Other versions with the same title are by Philemon Sturges (Little, Brown, 2004) and Ann Owen (Picture Window, 2003). This lively addition will surely elicit smiles.—Mary Jean Smith, Southside Elementary School, Lebanon, TN
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About this edition

• Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1416936521
• ISBN 13: 9781416936527
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Allwright Deborah