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The Umbrella
by
Jan Brett
A walk through the Costa Rican cloud forest provides a wonderfully lush setting for Jan Brett's beloved animal illustrations. When Carlos drops his umbrella to climb a tree for a better view of the animals, they all cram into the banana-leaf umbrella as it floats by--from the little tree frog to the baby tapir to the big jaguar and more. It gets so crowded in the umbrella ...more
Hardcover, 32 pages
Published
September 9th 2004
by Putnam Juvenile
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never put too many animals in one unbrella
A visit to the Monteverde Cloud Forest in Costa Rica inspired Jan Brett to create this book. It is a beautifully and lushly illustrated version of The Mitten only this time rain forest animals pile into an umbrella. Carlos takes his umbrella into the cloud forest to see if he can spot a jaguar, a monkey, a toucan and a kinkajou. He leaves the umbrella at the bottom of a giant fig tree while he climbs to the top to look for his animals. "Drip, drip, drip. A little puddle appears in the ...more
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This is basically The Mitten, but in the rain forest. And instead of just randomly exploring, the boy is looking for animals - the same animals that are all crowding into his umbrella! As in The Mitten, the animals gradually get bigger and bigger until they're packed as tight as they can, and then it's a little teeny animal that ruins the whole thing.
This is a pretty solid addition to your library if you liked The Mitten (Brett's version, that is), or if you want more books set in th...more
This is a pretty solid addition to your library if you liked The Mitten (Brett's version, that is), or if you want more books set in th...more
This is a really cute book for toddlers and it reminds me of The Mitten. It's uncanny exactly how similiar the two books are actually.
The ending in The Umbrella is adorable and the different animals that crowd the frog in the umbrella are not the average animals in most childrens books.
The illustrations are beautiful but not something I can go on too much about. The best part is the story and Julia and I both enjoyed reading this one.
**I just did a search trying to fin...more
The ending in The Umbrella is adorable and the different animals that crowd the frog in the umbrella are not the average animals in most childrens books.
The illustrations are beautiful but not something I can go on too much about. The best part is the story and Julia and I both enjoyed reading this one.
**I just did a search trying to fin...more
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Jan Brett's remarkable illustrations are back! She uses a picture book format to show life in the Monteverde Rain Forest in Costa Rica. Carlos is a little boy who climbs a tree in the rain forest to look for animals. In order to climb the tree, he must drop his umbrella. While he is on lookout, his umbrella becomes home to many of the local animals until it becomes overfilled and they all come tumbling out, at which point Carlos returns, disappointed ...more
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Jan Brett's remarkable illustrations are back! She uses a picture book format to show life in the Monteverde Rain Forest in Costa Rica. Carlos is a little boy who climbs a tree in the rain forest to look for animals. In order to climb the tree, he must drop his umbrella. While he is on lookout, his umbrella becomes home to many of the local animals until it becomes overfilled and they all come tumbling out, at which point Carlos returns, disappointed ...more
Caldecott Award winning book The Umbrella written by Jan Brett is an informationl book for children. This is an excellent book to give the early childhood reader information about some of the danimals that live in the rain forest of Costa Rica. The children also learn that a little boy who has made an umbrella out of large leaves becomes a type of boat for these animals until too many get in and it tips over taking them back to the shore. The pictures just add to the story as the children lea...more
Cute! A rain forest version of her other very popular children's book, The Mitten
. A boy climbs a tree in the rain forest trying to find some wildlife, but can't find any. Meanwhile, the forest animals all decide they like the boy's umbrella, which he has left behind on the ground. My kids really enjoyed picking out all the animals in the bright, colorful illustrations.
. A boy climbs a tree in the rain forest trying to find some wildlife, but can't find any. Meanwhile, the forest animals all decide they like the boy's umbrella, which he has left behind on the ground. My kids really enjoyed picking out all the animals in the bright, colorful illustrations.
Carlos take s a trip to the rainforest in hopes to see many animals. Unfortunantly, he leaves his umbrella at the bottom of a tree and climbs up the tree to get a better look. While he is gone one animal after the next falls into his umbrella. This book is filled with beautiful illustrations from the rain forest, and many spanish words that kids will love. Another great topic that can be discussed using this book is not squabbling an whinning when space is limited, like the many animals did insi...more
In The Umbrella by Jan Brett, Carlos wanders into the rain forest one day hoping to spot a jaguar, monkey, toucan, tapir, or kinkajou. He takes along a green, leafy umbrella to keep the drip, drip, drips from the trees off of him. But when he can't see any animals, he drops his umbrella and climbs a giant fig tree.
The animals in the forest jump into the umbrella one by one, trying to enjoy the little puddle it holds.
Used for "Rainy Days Ahead" Storytime: April...more
The animals in the forest jump into the umbrella one by one, trying to enjoy the little puddle it holds.
Used for "Rainy Days Ahead" Storytime: April...more
Carlos is going for a walk in the forrest to see all types of animals. He carried his umbrella into the rain forrest and sets it down to climb a tree and see the animals. As he climbs up, the animals climb into his giant umbrella. Soon as more and more animals join, the more full the umbrella becomes until it bursts. Carlos climbs down and claims that he doesn't see any animals that day as they all scampered away.
Cute story to talk about rain forrest animals.
Cute story to talk about rain forrest animals.
This is a bilingual book including Spanish words, but giving the definition of each Spanish word that is used. This fiction book about forest animals is a fun read for third grade students. The illustrations are very colorful and represent the animals and what they eat very well. This book uses good vocabulary, and has a fun story plot to follow. I would use this book for a read aloud when talking about forest animals.
Wonderful book, which I used at school. We had a project about animals in books and when I saw this own I ordered it.
I first read the book with my 4th graders and then together we made a short theatrical play of it. I used the masks from Jan Brett's website and the kids fixed an umbrella. It was such great fun. The whole school cheered after our performance.
I first read the book with my 4th graders and then together we made a short theatrical play of it. I used the masks from Jan Brett's website and the kids fixed an umbrella. It was such great fun. The whole school cheered after our performance.
Carlos goes on a grand adventure in the forest looking for different exotic animals. He can't seem to find anything but little does he know all the animals are on their own adventure in his umbrella he left at the base of the tree he climbed up. I like the Spanish in this book also. Great illustrations.
I enjoyed this book, but will probably wait until my girls are older before attempting to read it to them again. I'd say elementary school age would be perfect for this book. A wonderfully imaginative story, of a boy on a search for animals and the animals own adventure under the boys nose~
This book is beautifully illustrated as usual and the coloring pages made a beautiful mural. I loved the content because I used it as a jumping off point to talk about the rain forest with my students. The story however is wonderful, and as much as I loved it, I think the children loved it more.
This book would be great when talking about the different animals in a rain forest. It also has a few Spanish words that could lean into a discussion on the different ways humans say hello. This could be used to make a text to text connection with Brett's other book The Mitten and The Hat.
What a beautiful book. I couldn't believe how captivating the pictures are. Kendall especially loved the idea of all the animals being in Carlos' umbrella and he never even knew it. Clever and fun to read.
Jan Brett is such a wonderful children's author and illustrator. Everything she does is something to be savoured. I learned what a kinkajou and quetzal bird are and a little bit of Spanish!
If you liked The Mitten... don't bother.(says my Mom) I liked this book a lot. It has animals! My mom doesn't seem to care for it though... wonder why I haven't seen in lately?
Carlos enjoyed looking around the cloud forest, a monkey, quetzal, Kinkajou, toucan, baby tapir, frog, jaguar, and hummingbird spy his umbrella. Lush pictures tell an adventurous tale.
Rich illustrations and a story like The Mitten....several jungle animals vie for space on an umbrella made of leaves. I think there is probably not a Jan Brett book that I don't like!
I enjoyed the colorful and vivid illustrations in this book, as well as the animal and plant life displayed. This is a nice little glimpse for children into the ecosystem of the rainforest.
Beautiful detailed illustrations show tropical animals climbing into a young boy's leaf-umbrella without the boy's knowledge and using it for a great adventure.
This book had amazing illustrations to start! But it would be a great book to use to connect a science lesson about the rain forest to literacy.
As usual, the pictures make this book. You could look at them for hours. The plot is very simple and would nicely illustrate irony.
this book is very similar to her book the mitten. basically the same story. very cute. great illustrations.
While the main story follows the animals, smaller illustrations in the margins wordlessly show Carlos's adventure.
A good book to use to talk about the rain forest.
Every Jan Brett book I read, I love.
A lot like The Mitten
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With over thirty three million books in print, Jan Brett is one of the nation's foremost author illustrators of children's books. Jan lives in a seacoast town in Massachusetts, close to where she grew up. During the summer her family moves to a home in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts.
As a child, Jan Brett decided to be an illustrator and spent many hours reading and drawing. She says, ...more
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