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How I Spent My Summer Vacation (Paperback)
by Mark Teague
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Story, Summer vacation, Ages 9-12, Children's books |
| Market price: ¥ 98.00
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¥ 88.00
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| MSL Pointer Review:
A book perfect for starting off the school year, with an amazing tale of training rides, cowboys, cattle herding and so on. |
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Author: Mark Teague
Publisher: Dragonfly Books
Pub. in: July, 1997
ISBN: 0517885565
Pages: 32
Measurements: 8.1 x 9.9 x 0.1 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BC00212
Other information: Reprint edition
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It's an original fantasy told in rhyme. Wallace Bleff, who is reporting to his class about his summer vacation, tells of his travels west at the bidding of his parents, who felt his overactive imagination, needed a rest. He relates how en route to his Aunt Fern's house, he is kidnapped by cowboys and voila, Kid Bleff is born. He joins the rawhide crowd; learns to rope, ride, and build fires; and becomes a "first-rate cowhand." In celebration of the end of the roundup, Aunt Fern invites Wallace and new friends to a barbecue. When a cattle stampede nearly ruins the party, the young hero saves the day as he displays hidden talent as a matador and reverses the direction of the herd. The art is done in warm acrylics throughout, first to portray the classroom setting where Wallace's yarn begins against the backdrop of the chalkboard, then segues into the sandy scenes of the Wild West, and back again. Teague strikes again with a unique idea, one that teachers would do well to use. An excellent read-aloud choice for back-to-school reading in the classroom or the public library.
Target readers:
Kids aged 9-12
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Mark Teague has delighted young readers with more than 20 picture books, and he has written many of them himself, including the popular Pigsty, Baby Tamer, and One Halloween Night. He is also the illustrator of Cynthia Rylant's beloved Poppleton series for beginning readers and the best-selling books by Jane Yolen, How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight and How Do Dinosaurs Get Well Soon.
Mark Teague's life changed when he moved from San Diego to New York City and he planted the seed for his first picture book, The Trouble with the Johnsons. Each of Teague's books start as "notebooks full of sketches and scribbles, strange little drawings and phrases that suddenly come together," Teague explains. And although he had no formal writing training, his endless imagination and understanding nature gives him a permanent place in the hearts of everyone.
Mark and his wife live in Coxsackie, New York, with their young daughter Lily, who has a great time watching her dad paint the pictures in his books.
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Some kids spend their summer vacation at camp. Some kids spend it at Grandma's house. Wallace Bleff spent his out west... on a ride, a rope, and a roundup he'll never forget. A schoolboy tells his class about his summer vacation, during which he joined a group of cowboys and stopped a cattle stampede.
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Mary (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-27 00:00>
I really enjoyed the book. I look forward to sharing this book with my students to start off our school year together. I'm going to use the book to help them get an idea to be creative about his or her own summer vacation to write a great story. |
kikiblue (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-27 00:00>
I'm a teacher and like to read this book to my students in the first week of school. Then I pose a challenge to them. I challenge them to tell me about their own summer vacation, but like Wallace, start out with the truth, and then let their imagination take over. I get completely ridiculous and fun stories about trips to the lake that end up as coronations as supreme master of planet zoo. I highly recommend it. |
A reader (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-27 00:00>
Remember the essay that your teacher always made you write at the beginning of each school year?? How I Spent My Summer Vacation is told by the main character Wallace Bleff who stands before the class and weaves an amazing tale of train rides, cowboys, cattle herding and the like while we come along for the ride. (Wallace has quite an imagination.) Loads of fun, beautifully illustrated, and my son's favorite bedtime story. |
J. Bradford (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-27 00:00>
Nice story about a boy's imagination but not much else to the story. Great pictures, as usual by Mark Teague. Enjoyable and worth purchasing (used in good condition) anyway - as I did. |
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