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Popcorn
by
Frank Asch
Sam Bear invites his friends to an impromptu Halloween party and asks them to bring a treat.
Paperback, 48 pages
Published
February 8th 1990
by Grosset & Dunlap
(first published January 1st 1979)
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This was my FAVORITE book as a kid. I've loved popcorn for as long as I can remember. My grandma taught me how to cook it in a pot with oil and kernels at a young age. This book reminds me of those times. The illustrations are lovely and the idea of an entire room filled with popcorn still tugs at my heart and imagination strings. One day when and if I have a little one of my own, this book will be in heavy rotation for bedtime storytime!
This book is about a little bear that has a costume party and everyone brings popcorn to the party. When they pop all of the popcorn, it goes everywhere and they have to eat their way out. I would use this book around Halloween time and even have popcorn for the kids to eat for a snack after reading the book or even during.
This was one of my favorite books growing up, and I have the same copy to share with my kids and they love it! It is an out-of-the-ordinary story your could share around Halloween since the story takes place at a costume party. I love it and have always wondered how much popcorn it would take to fill a house!
This is one of those books that I loved as a child and searched and searched for as an adult. I finally found my copy at a local used bookstore and I was thrilled. Yes, it was as good as I remembered! Loved the illustrations and all of the different costumes the bears wear to the party.
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One of my all time favorite books.
Read during Halloween. Have students dress up in costumes and pop popcorn the old fashion ways. Teach the stages of popcorn. Also talk to the children about how he made a mistake by bring over his friends without his parents permission.
One of my all time favorite books.
Read during Halloween. Have students dress up in costumes and pop popcorn the old fashion ways. Teach the stages of popcorn. Also talk to the children about how he made a mistake by bring over his friends without his parents permission.
this was one of my favorite books as a child. i have such fond memories of reading this with my mother and brother. it is also probably to blame for my current obsession with popcorn.
Sep 23, 2011
Baby Isabel
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Donna: This was one of my niece, Isabel's, favorites. She wanted it almost every night for months. Even seeing the cover cracks me up because you just know what's going to happen!
It is so much fun to read Popcorn to a group of preschool children--especially when you serve popcorn for snack! They love it! It's now a favorite of my grandchildren as well!
I read this as a child and now my little boy loves it. Sometimes he'll put something over his head and yell, "Who turned out the lights?
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I found this when searching for another book today for mt son! I used to love this book when I was a child! Can't wait to buy and share with him
Nov 07, 2011
Kimikimi
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Read this when I was little (or more likely had it read to me). I hope I can find a copy to read to my kids in the future.
This was my very favorite book when I was little. I learned how to read with this book! Wow, it brings back memories!
Favorite book from childhood. Can you imagine that much popcorn? Yum!!! I have it on the bookshelf for my daughter.
I swear I read this one as a kid. It looked very familiar, so I read it again. Cute. Predictable, but cute.
This book is very cute! but its kind of weird that everyones bringing popcorn to his party! but I liked it!
Another favourite children's book of mine. I grew up with it and now I read it to my kids.
I remember reading this book over and over and over again. So excited to finally own it again!
This is the ultimate hangover parable.
"I would eat popcorn like in this book." -Ryan
"I would eat popcorn like in this book." -Ryan
My all-time favorite bedtime story when I was a little girl. It's a great Halloween book, too!
My all-time favorite book from childhood, now a story I read with my boys!
Interest Level Grades K - 2
Genre: Fiction, Halloween
Themes: Teamwork, Animals, Family
Uses: Casual reading for comprehension
Genre: Fiction, Halloween
Themes: Teamwork, Animals, Family
Uses: Casual reading for comprehension
This was one of my favorite books to read to my children. :)
OMG! I loved this book way back when!! Ah, childhood.
When I was a kid this was my all time favorite book.
This book has been my favorite evere since i was a child
My dad use to read this book to me all the time! I have it in my bookshelf to this very day.
I have loved this book since I was little.
This would be good to share close to Halloween.
One of DH favorite books growing up!
My very favorite childhood book.
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Frank Asch is an American children's writer, best known for his Moonbear picture books.
Asch published his first picture book, George's Store, in 1968. The following year he graduated from Cooper Union with a BFA. Since then he has taught at a public school in India, as well as at a Montessori school in the United States, conducted numerous creative workshops for children. He has written over 60 bo...more
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Asch published his first picture book, George's Store, in 1968. The following year he graduated from Cooper Union with a BFA. Since then he has taught at a public school in India, as well as at a Montessori school in the United States, conducted numerous creative workshops for children. He has written over 60 bo...more
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