Synopses & Reviews
Say hello to Mr. Geo, everybody's favorite geography teacher!and#160;He loves to explore new places. Today he's visiting Illinois, the Prairie State.and#160;His first stop isand#160;Chicago forand#160;aand#160;colorful kite-flying festival and a visitand#160;toand#160;theand#160;Field Museum to seeand#160;the biggestand#160;T Rexand#160;skeleton ever found!and#160;He's also going toand#160;ride riverboats, see amazing skyscrapers, work on a farm,and#160;climband#160;the mysterious Cahokia Mounds, andand#160;see historic places where Abraham Lincoln lived and worked.and#160;Join Mr. Geo on his travels around Illinois. Together, you will discover what makes this a state to celebrate.and#160;Includes maps and learning activities. Colorful, you-are-there illustrations,and#160;the highly animated narrator, and easy-to-decode text are great for beginning and newly independent readers.and#160;
Review
Anderson's art, with its expressive lines full of brightly colored action, are clean visual narratives depicting Joe in red overalls while trying everything with wheels, from skateboard to toy train and toy airplane to baby buggy. The simple rhymed text has the kind of legs that Joe would admire: tireless, and shot through with the music of motion.
Kirkus Reviews
True to the small child's viewpoint of a world full of powerful grownups, the latest uproarious picture book about Joe the frog perfectly captures Joe's frustration as he tries to get attention and join the adults' activities at a family reunion. . . . Illustrated with bright, boisterous line-and-watercolor pictures, the simple rhyming text . . . will draw story-hour listeners as well as beginning readers to a scenario they may recognize.
Booklist, ALA
Beginning readers will enjoy the rollicking rhyme and equally active art. They will also identify with Joe's need for attention and the endless refusals he receives. . . . A book with a lot of child appeal.
School Library Journal
Synopsis
With bonus activities included, this new addition to the Green Light Readers' Level 1 collection follows our energetic frog friend to a family reunion.and#160; With familiar words and short sentences geared for early reading success, and fun and familiar scenarios, this book is sure to be hopping good fun for beginning readers!
Synopsis
It's the Frog family reunion, and all of Joe's relatives have gathered together. Everybody's having fun--everyone except for Joe. With so many Frogs around, you'd think that surely somebody would play with Joe, but everyone says he's too big, too small, too fast, or too slow. No matter where poor Joe turns, all he hears is "no" . . . until a very special guest arrives--someone with an appreciation for Joe and his boundless energy, someone who even has her own set of wheels.
Bright, appealing illustrations feature Joe's mishaps with all kinds of things that go: tricycles, skateboards, roller skates, and more.
Synopsis
Itand#8217;s the Frog family reunion, and all of Joeand#8217;s relatives have gathered together. Everybodyand#8217;s having funand#151;everyone except for Joe. With so many Frogs around, youand#8217;d think that surely somebody would play with Joe, but everyone says heand#8217;s too big, too small, too fast, or too slow. No matter where poor Joe turns, all he hears is and#147;noand#8221; . . . until a very special guest arrivesand#151;someone with an appreciation for Joe and his boundless energy, someone who even has her own set of wheels.
Bright, appealing illustrations feature Joeand#8217;s mishaps with all kinds of things that go: tricycles, skateboards, roller skates, and more.
Synopsis
Joe wants to go, go, go! Everyone at the
Frog family reunion says no, no, no! Lots
of rhyme, repetition, and hopping good
fun to delight beginners in this Level 1
Green Light Reader.
Synopsis
Join Mr. Geo on his whirlwind tour of Illinois in this Level 3 Green Light Reader. Celebratingand#160;Illinoisand#160;combines travel and social studies in a way that's entertaining and educational. This new volume in the 50 States to Celebrateand#160;seriesand#160;gets off to a rousing start inand#160;Chicago with a kite-flying festival,and#160;baseball games,and#160;andand#160;a look at the biggest T-rex skeleton ever!and#160;But there's so much more to explore in the Land of Lincoln.and#160;Plenty of picture and context clues keep eager youngand#160;readers moving along with ease and fluency.and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;
Synopsis
Join Mr. Geo on his whirlwind tour ofand#160;and#160;Massachusettsand#160;in thisand#160;Level 3 Green Light Reader.and#160;Celebrating Massachusetts combines travel with social studies in a way that's entertaining and educational.and#160;This latest installment in the 50 States to Celebrate seriesand#160;starts outand#160;at Boston'sand#160;Fourth of July celebration andand#160;makes stops along theand#160;historic Freedom Trail and thenand#160;Plymouth, Cape Cod,and#160;the Berkshires, and more.and#160;Packed with picture and context clues to keepand#160;beginning and newly independent readers moving along with ease and confidence. and#160;
Synopsis
Say hello to Mr. Geo, everybody's favorite geography teacher!and#160;He loves to explore new places. Today he's visiting Massachusetts, the Bay State. His first stop isand#160;Boston for a huge Fourth of July celebration. Then he'll ride the Swan Boats, re-enact the Boston Tea Party, and walk theand#160;historic Freedom Trail. He'll also meet "Pilgrims,"and#160;ride bikes onand#160;Cape Cod,and#160;hike theand#160;beautiful Berkshires, and much, much more.and#160;Join Mr. Geo on his travels around Massachusetts. Together, you will discover what makes this a state to celebrate. Includes maps and learning activities.and#160;Colorful, you-are-there illustrations and easy-to-readand#160;text areand#160;great for beginning and newly independent readers!and#160;
Synopsis
This Level 3 Green Light Reader combines travel with social studies in a way that's entertaining and educational.and#160;Part of aand#160;newand#160;nonfiction, easy reader series aboutand#160;the 50 states, CELEBRATINGand#160;ARIZONAand#160;takes beginning readers on a whirlwind tour ofand#160; the Grand Canyon Stateand#160;with theand#160;Mr. Geo. Join this fun and funny geography teacher as he visits national parks, popular attractions, historic sites, and natural wondersand#160;in the deserts and canyons of the Southwest.
Synopsis
Say hello toand#160;Mr. Geo, everybodyand#8217;s favorite geography teacher! He's on a missionand#160;to visit all fifty states.and#160;Todayand#160;heand#8217;s visiting Arizona, the Grand Canyon State.and#160;His first stop is theand#160;Grand Canyonand#160;for a mule rideand#160;toand#160;the bottom,and#160;where he'lland#160;boardand#160;aand#160;raft and rowand#160;the mightyand#160;rapids of the Colorado River. Then he will visit the Navajo Nation, a town from the Wild West, and the Painted Desert.and#160;Join Mr. Geo on his travels around Arizona.and#160;Together, you will discover what makes this a stateand#160;to celebrate.
This entertaining and educational mix of travel, geography, history, and pop culture includes maps and learning activities. Great for beginning readers!
Synopsis
Say hello toand#160;Mr. Geo, everybodyand#8217;s favorite geography teacher! He loves to explore new places.and#160;Todayand#160;heand#8217;s visiting Virginia,and#160;our firstand#160;colony.and#160;His first stop is Harborfestand#160;toand#160;ride a Tall Ship. Then he's off to seeand#160;dolphins splashing at Virginia Beach, andand#160;wild poniesand#160;galloping onand#160;Assateague Island.and#160;Other stops include historic sites,and#160;scenic wonders, and nearby Washington, D.C.and#160;Join Mr. Geo on his travels around Virginia.and#160;Together, you will discover what makes this a stateand#160;to celebrate.
This entertaining and educational mix of travel, geography, history, and pop culture includes maps and learning activities. Great for beginning readers!
Synopsis
A stubborn young frog named Joe does not want to take a bath. He delays his father as long as possible by asking him to fetch his favorite toys, until Father is so loaded down he trips and lands in the mud. Now Joe is not the only one who needs a bath.
Suitable goofiness keeps this story of maneuverings sprightly and humorous, as do the ebullient cartoony drawings, which aptly demonstrate the good-natured parry and thrusts that mark the lighter moments of parent-child discourse.” Kirkus Reviews
The time-honored bath-procrastination ploy is portrayed, for a change, with a lovely absence of tension. Good-natured slapstick sets the tone, and Andersons bright rhymes follow suit, reinforced by fresh watercolor and pen-and-ink illustrations dancing on bright white pages.”School Library Journal
About the Author
PEGGYandnbsp;PERRYandnbsp;ANDERSONandnbsp;is a former elementary school art teacher who lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She has written sixandnbsp;early readers about Joe the Frog. They include Let's Clean Up, Joe on the Go, To the Tub, Out to Lunch,andnbsp; Time for Bed, the Babysitter Said, and Iandnbsp;Can Help!.