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Hip, funny, unique--and a perfect curriculum tie-in--heres a picture book with mega kid-appeal about the challenges a student faces when she is given an assignment to make a chart of her own home! Umas been making charts since she was a little kid. But when her teacher gives the class Umas dream assignment--to make a chart of their own homes--she is thrown for a loop. Oh, the possibilities! Oh, the pressure! What makes a house housey? she wonders. In order to figure it out, she asks each member of her family--Mom, Dad, and brothers Rex, Bram, and Lukey. But its not until she has a meltdown and Lukey comforts her that Uma figures out the secret to her chart--and her family. Its the love that is shared inside a houses walls.Told in first-person and featuring engaging graphic artwork, this fun and lively picture book--perfect for classroom use--is a reminder that someones true home is not a place, but rather the people with whom you surround yourself.About author(s):Reif Larsen is the author of two novels for adults, The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet (a New York Times bestseller) and I Am Radar. The Selected Works was won by Penguin in a ten-house auction for almost one million dollars, and was made into a movie, The Young and Prodigious T. S. Spivet, starring Kathy Bates and Helena Bonham-Carter. He also writes articles on travel for the New York Times, GQ, and others. Reif received an MFA from Columbia University. Visit him at reiflarsen.com. Ben Gibson spends his days making charts about things like birds, cats, dogs, wizards, skyscrapers, outer space, grammar, rap music, invisible things, fruits, vegetables, sharks, bicycles, and dinosaurs at the company he co founded, Pop Chart. Pop Charts award-winning designs can be seen in peoples homes all around the world, and in collaborations with brands such as the New York Times, Esquire, GQ, Wired, HBO, and Comedy Central, among others.
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Vânzător: Elefant.ro
Brand: Anne Schwartz Books
