age lap book we join Cassie, the main character from the picture book Tar Beach. As she takes us on a tour of her home, neighborhood, and school, dozens of new words are introduced with simple labels throughout. Young readers will love the simple story line and all the new words they’ll encounter. They’ll relish the beautifully designed spreads, each with its own quilt motif. The bright, boldly colored pages will attract even the youngest lookers, and the words will teach pre-reading skills to slightly older children. The size makes it perfect for story hours, and the price makes it perfect for every home. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

Faith Ringgold was born in Harlem in 1930. She received a degree in art education from the City College of New York and was an art teacher long before she became a professional artist. She is best known for her "painted story quilts," some of which hang in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Tar Beach, Ringgold's first book for children, won the Coretta Scott King Award for illustration and was named a Caldecott Honor Book. Ringgold is now a professor of art at the University of California at San Diego. She lives in California and in New Jersey.


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Ages 5-8. Cassie, whom readers will remember from Tar Beach (1991), dreams that she flies among the stars. What we really see, though, is Cassie and her brother flying through the neighborhood as Ringgold's simple text first presents a nine-block word-picture "quilt," followed by a double-page spread from which viewers are invited to pick out the words and objects named in the blocks on the preceding page. Through this pattern we're presented with Cassie's apartment, her bedroom, her block, her school, and her street, each scene full of outlined shapes and colors demanding the eye look and linger. End papers feature an alphabet placed in a quiltlike grid that is bordered with patchwork blocks radically different but similar enough in scale to blend with each other. Vibrant and friendly, this will make pre-reading skill development fun. Denise Wilms
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A lap book that invites the youngest readers to point-and-say all the people, places, and things in the urban landscape of the award-winning Tar Beach.
--This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.