We'll All Go Sailing (First Flight Level 1) - Softcover

Spicer, Maggee; Thompson, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1550416510 ISBN 13: 9781550416510

Publisher: Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 2002

Synopsis

Richard Thompson and Maggee Spicer join forces with Kim LaFave in this colorful tour of the seas. The young narrator and his friends, Maggee and Jesse, travel to a myriad of places to look at sea life that is every color of the rainbow. Children will delight in the pink octopus, the blue manatee, and the orange barracuda, to name but a few.

Richard Thompson and Maggee Spicer have created a rhythmic poem (in the same vein as their ealier collaboration, Fishes in the Ocean) that will encourage the very youngest of new readers. Together with Kim La Fave's bold and playful illustrations, this delightful poem will make a fine book To show what we'll see, When we all go sailing On the rainbow seas.

About this title

Book Description:

Nominee for the Governor General's Literary Awards Children's Literature - Illustration, 2001

From the Publisher:

First Flight is an exciting new series of beginning readers. The series presents titles which include songs, poems, adventures, mysteries, and humor by established authors and illustrators. First Flight makes the introduction to reading fun and satisfying for the young reader.

First Flight is available in 4 levels to correspond to reading development.

Level 1 - Pre-school-Grade 1

Large type, repetition of simple concepts that are perfect for reading aloud, easy vocabulary and endearing characters in short simple stories for the earliest reader.

Level 2 - Grade 1-Grade 3

Longer sentences, higher level of vocabulary, repetition, and high-interest stories for the progressive reader.

Level 3 - Grade 2-Grade 4

Simple stories with more involved plots and a simple chapter format for the newly independent reader.

Level 4 - Grade 3-Up (First Flight Chapter Books)

More challenging level, minimal illustrations for the independant reader.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fitzhenry and Whiteside
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1550416510
• ISBN 13: 9781550416510
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: LaFave Kim