Baby Sitter (First Time (Childs Play)) - Softcover

Jessica Stockham

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1846432790 ISBN 13: 9781846432798

Publisher: Child's Play International, 2010

Synopsis

Will I like my babysitter? Will we have fun? How long will they stay? Reading Baby Sitter with your child is the perfect opportunity to talk about these questions, and many more! There's a FIRST TIME for everything! Young children's lives are full of new experiences, and these books help make these enjoyable and rewarding. The simple conversational text and lively illustrations are carefully designed to encourage further dialogue between reader and child.

About this title

From School Library Journal:

PreS—Each book addresses an issue relevant to preschoolers' lives. Children in the illustrations are shown engaging in new experiences, always smiling, while surrounded by loving adults and friends. The pleasant cartoon art features uncluttered, brightly colored scenes. The texts, structured as strings of dialogue that are never assigned to a speaker, rely heavily on the artwork to carry the stories, e.g., "Next on the slide? Let's make sandcastles!" (Nursery) is paired with a playground scene. All of the books focus on the small things that happen in each experience and neglect to explain why or who any of the characters are. The events are realistic and shown in a positive light, but the books come across as banal.—Laura Butler, Mount Laurel Library, NJ
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Review:

First Time series "Each book addresses an issue relevant to preschoolers' lives. Children in the illustrations are shown engaging in new experiences, always smiling, while surrounded by loving adults and friends. The pleasant cartoon art features uncluttered, brightly colored scenes." --School Library Journal 20110401

About this edition

• Publisher: Child's Play International
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1846432790
• ISBN 13: 9781846432798
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 24
• Illustrator: Jess Stockham