Have You Ever Done That? - Hardcover

Julie Larios

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1886910499 ISBN 13: 9781886910492

Publisher: Front Street Imprint of Boyds Mills Press, 2001

Synopsis

Have you ever slept outside on a hot summer night? Sailed a boat in stormy waters? Or nursed a baby bird back to health? Maybe you've done other strange things you weren't expecting to do, or familiar things that became surprising as you did them. In this beautifully illustrated book of poetry you'll discover exciting possibilities in the events of each day and night. Every page hold a world to be explored.

About this title

About the Author:

Julie Larios is a poet who lives in Seattle. Her first book, On the Stairs, was done in collaboration with her sister, Mary Cornish.

Anne Hunter is the author and illustrator of many children's book, including Possum's Harvest Moon and Possum and the Peeper. She lives in Vermont.

From School Library Journal:

reS-Gr 3-Beginning and ending with a child sleeping under a star-filled sky, protected by a canopy of trees, this beautifully patterned and paced text takes readers on a trip into the imaginative dreams of children. It starts with the question: "Have you ever slept outside on a hot summer night?" A child replies no, but he has done something different, and he continues the pattern with the question, "Have you ever done that?" The answer is always no, but there is also always something else each child has done that is equally engaging. One may have "picked up a corn snake" or "Flown with wings" or "Nursed a baby bird." The opening illustration of the first child sleeping immediately makes the connection with dreaming, and it's confirmed at the end as readers are urged to "stretch your wings in the moon's strange light" and join this flight of fancy. Hunter's watercolor-and-ink illustrations create a cozy, inviting place in which anything is possible, yet all seems grounded in the world around us. The lilting rhyming text perfectly combines things possible and improbable. Its direct address makes it a perfect read-aloud or a candidate for reader's theater. Pair this with Elinor Horwitz's When the Sky Is Like Lace (HarperCollins, 1987) for a cozy, fanciful storytime.

Jane Marino, Scarsdale Public Library, NY

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About this edition

• Publisher: Front Street Imprint of Boyds Mills Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1886910499
• ISBN 13: 9781886910492
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32