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Up, Down, and Around
by
Katherine Ayres (Goodreads Author),
Nadine Bernard Westcott
"An inviting introduction to the wonder of plants, food, and gardening. . . . Will be a favorite of teachers, students, and home readers alike." — KIRKUS REVIEWS
From seeds dropping into soil to corn bursting from its stalks, from children chasing butterflies to ants burrowing underground, everything in this vibrant picture book pulses with life —- in all directions! Sprigh...more
From seeds dropping into soil to corn bursting from its stalks, from children chasing butterflies to ants burrowing underground, everything in this vibrant picture book pulses with life —- in all directions! Sprigh...more
Paperback, 32 pages
Published
February 26th 2008
by Candlewick Press
(first published March 13th 2007)
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1.Concept Book about directions
2.This colorfully illustrated picture book describes plants that grow in the garden and the directions in which each grows: up, down or around.
3.Text B. The simple story line in this book includes text that clearly supports young readers. C.Each page contains a simple one sentence line of text most of which rhyme and end in the terms ‘up, down or around.’ This pattern allows young readers to predict the end of the sentences and learn the co...more
2.This colorfully illustrated picture book describes plants that grow in the garden and the directions in which each grows: up, down or around.
3.Text B. The simple story line in this book includes text that clearly supports young readers. C.Each page contains a simple one sentence line of text most of which rhyme and end in the terms ‘up, down or around.’ This pattern allows young readers to predict the end of the sentences and learn the co...more
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Genre: Concept Children’s Book
Summary: The book details a small boy and his friend helping to work and discover in his dad’s garden. Fruits and vegetables are named and the reader is told how they grow in a garden.
Critique: a) Illustrations
The illustrations, while they are cartoon-like, detail mostly accurate details of a garden. The pictures have many details that make the illustrations amazing. The book focuses on directions, yet adds little bugs and animals to show how amzi...more
Summary: The book details a small boy and his friend helping to work and discover in his dad’s garden. Fruits and vegetables are named and the reader is told how they grow in a garden.
Critique: a) Illustrations
The illustrations, while they are cartoon-like, detail mostly accurate details of a garden. The pictures have many details that make the illustrations amazing. The book focuses on directions, yet adds little bugs and animals to show how amzi...more
Charlene McGuire Melson
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Recommends it for:
preschoolers
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This book is full of colorful vegetables, cute bugs and animals. My four year old, Abby, really liked it. After I read it to her she was able to read most of it herself by looking at the pictures. This book worked great to show her what vegetables look like before they get to the store.
I would have liked to see a bonus in the form of a recipe... maybe vegetable soup.
Abby's review:
So what did you think? It was good, I liked it.
What was your favorite part? I liked i...more
I would have liked to see a bonus in the form of a recipe... maybe vegetable soup.
Abby's review:
So what did you think? It was good, I liked it.
What was your favorite part? I liked i...more
My ratings on childrens books is part my opinion as a mother and part is my 3-year old son's interest in the book. By the way, I usually give books two chances before sending it back to the library because sometimes the attention span just isn't there. Anyway, this is a good book for us because of the time of year and how it relates to both our home vegetable garden, and the class my son takes at the library, "muddy munchkins." The pictures are nice, the words are brief, and it move...more
A fabulous rhyming story that starts with a father and son (presumably) planting a garden. Then the fun really starts as readers are taken on a journey up, down and round and around as plants begin to grow. For example, corn grows up, carrots grow down, green beans wind around and around.
I love to do this book last in a storytime and have the kids stand up and act out the up, down and around with me. It's great fun!
I love to do this book last in a storytime and have the kids stand up and act out the up, down and around with me. It's great fun!
Although I think this book works better as a one-on-one read, having the big book version of this book really helped during a storytime read. Toddlers are a little young to totally grasp the concept of how the vegetables grow, but they could identify most of the vegetables, and we stood up for up, sat down for down and of course had plenty of spinning around and around!
This book is beautifully illustrated, and I guess it teaches kids some pronoun and vegetable vocab, but it completely failed to capture my attention or stimulate my imagination in any way. Also, some of the visual gags seemed unnecessarily animal-cruelty-ish.
This book talks about how plants grow up, down, and around! It would be a good book to read when teaching about how plants grow and what they need to grow. The book also rhymes so it will catch the students attention.
This has been a great book to teach my children about planting a garden and the differences between vegetables. I love the rhyming and the reptition, and so do my kids. I definately recommend this one.
This is Pennsylvania's One Book, One Child book for the year, so I've been trying to incorporate it into storytime. It's kind of a boring book to read out loud, though, at least to large groups; I could see it working better one-on-one. The illustrations are exuberant and the use of a vegetable garden to illustrate the concepts of "up," "down," and "around" is clever, but the kids seemed bored.
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It seems that part of the problem is that the...more
A brightly illustrated, lively rhyming fun book! Takes the kid friendly gardening theme to a new level - talking about how come plants grow up, some down and some around! Highly recommend.
Since we just planted our garden this was a great book to read. It shows lots of different vegetables and that some grow above ground, some below ground and some vines grow around and around.
This is a darling book that teaches the directions up, down, and around through a growing garden. We read it so many times that Emilyn has it memorized. :)
A fun oversized book with lots of good repetition of "up, down & around". My 6 month daughter was very wide-eyed at the brightly colored illustrations. I can see this being used effectively with a bit older kids to introduce them to growing plants & gardens of their own.
Samantha
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anyone who reads to toddlers
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this book works fantastically for toddlers and preschoolers. it's really easy to incorporate movement into the story reading (the books talks about stuff that grows up -- the kids stand up -- stuff that grows down -- the kids sit down -- and stuff that grows around and around -- everyone spins around!) cute pics, too.
Rhyming text shows all sorts of different garden plants that can be grown. Book stresses where the plants grow~ in the ground, on the ground, winding around, etc.
The airplane goes up, (lift arms up)
the airplane goes down, (arms down to ground)
the airplane flies high (fly around like plane)
over our town!
the airplane goes down, (arms down to ground)
the airplane flies high (fly around like plane)
over our town!
Very good book for my 3 year old. Great illustrations and rhymes about gardening and vegetables. My son loved it.
A great book about gardening and summer and eating what you grow. Great pictures.
Good book about growing a garden for reading in the spring.
Cute Children's Book. Lovely drawings. Reviewed at eho.org
Kinda makes me want to plant a garden. In theory.
The illustrations were amazing.
spring time - growing garden
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