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I Ain't Gonna Paint No More!
A dab of blue here, a splash of red there, a goopy smear of green . . . everywhere. To the tune of "It Ain't Gonna Rain No More," one creative kid floods his world with color, painting first the walls, then the ceiling, then HIMSELF! Before this feisty artist is through, he'll have painted his head, back, hands, legs, feet, and . . . Oh no--here comes Mama!
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Hardcover, 32 pages
Published
April 1st 2005
by Harcourt Children's Books
(first published January 28th 2005)
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CIP: In the rhythm of a familiar folk song, a little white boy glories in covering himself with paint, one body part at a time.
Review: Good solid rhythm in the storytelling, combined with rhymes that allow listeners to guess which body part the little boy will paint next. The ink line drawings – of the boy, his comical dog, and his mother – on a white background make a great contrasting space for the glorious paint colors … some splashed and scribbled, some wonderfully decorative. Lots of humor,...more
Review: Good solid rhythm in the storytelling, combined with rhymes that allow listeners to guess which body part the little boy will paint next. The ink line drawings – of the boy, his comical dog, and his mother – on a white background make a great contrasting space for the glorious paint colors … some splashed and scribbled, some wonderfully decorative. Lots of humor,...more
Wonderful rhyming story that my 12 year-old read over and over. Not quite as popular as Skippyjon Jones, but close.
Summary: In the rhythm of a familiar folk song, a child cannot resist adding one more dab of paint in surprising places.
My girls love this book and ask to have it read almost every night. The story is about the typical small child who gets into mischief at every turn of the book. Mom catches him painting the walls and puts him in the bath to wash while she hides his remaining paints. As all us moms know, a determined child will find a way, anyway, to get what he wants. Instead of painting the wa...more
My girls love this book and ask to have it read almost every night. The story is about the typical small child who gets into mischief at every turn of the book. Mom catches him painting the walls and puts him in the bath to wash while she hides his remaining paints. As all us moms know, a determined child will find a way, anyway, to get what he wants. Instead of painting the wa...more
One day a boy gets caught painting the walls, ceiling and floor. His mother drops him in the bath tub and tells him, “Ya ain’t a-gonna paint no more!” She hides the paints, but the little boy finds them and this time he paints himself! Starting with a glob of red on his head all the way to completing his feet the little boy paints with colorful abandon. Until his mother walks in the room and drops him back in the bath tub, “Y’all don’t faint… ‘cause there ain’t no paint! So I ain’t gonna paint n...more
What parent hasn't walked into the room to find their child covered in paint, or the walls colored on with permanent marker, or the dog being covered in glitter and glue? What? Not at your house? Then you may want to pass by this book that has swirling colors on every page as the young boy of the story promises to not paint anymore. If this sounds like something your children have done at least once, then you know you have to laugh when encountering situations like that. It's either laugh or run...more
This book really made me laugh out loud! This is a great book to teach kids words that rhyme--its easy for children to predict the rhyming word that's coming up on the next page, because it's always a body part that the protagonist decides to paint next. In this hysterical story, the main character has been commanded by her mother not to paint anymore because the house is getting to be an absolute mess with all of the paint. So, the main character says over and and over "I ain't gonna paint no m...more
Children’s Literature
Crystal Rodriguez
Title: I Ain’t Gonna Paint No More Realistic Fiction Primary
Author: Karen Beaumont
Illustrator: David Catrow
Place of Publication: New York, NY
Date: 2005 Pages: 30
I love this book! I enjoy reading this to my preschool class as they can finish the sentence before I turn the page. This realistic fiction book shows a very realistic situation of a child who decides to have some self-expression, painting his head, neck, chest, hand, arm, and more! You see the dog...more
Crystal Rodriguez
Title: I Ain’t Gonna Paint No More Realistic Fiction Primary
Author: Karen Beaumont
Illustrator: David Catrow
Place of Publication: New York, NY
Date: 2005 Pages: 30
I love this book! I enjoy reading this to my preschool class as they can finish the sentence before I turn the page. This realistic fiction book shows a very realistic situation of a child who decides to have some self-expression, painting his head, neck, chest, hand, arm, and more! You see the dog...more
We start with a bouncy rhythm, as the kid describes how his paints got taken away.
Then he gleefully (to the tune of "It Ain't Gonna Rain No More", of course) sneaks to the closet starts painting his whole body (and, incidentally, the rest of the pristine white house!)
I love the color, and I love the rhythm. Seriously, I'm reading this every day to my two nieces, age 5 and 3. They can't get enough of it!
I will note that there is a scene where the kid almost paints his (now naked) butt (singing "B...more
Then he gleefully (to the tune of "It Ain't Gonna Rain No More", of course) sneaks to the closet starts painting his whole body (and, incidentally, the rest of the pristine white house!)
I love the color, and I love the rhythm. Seriously, I'm reading this every day to my two nieces, age 5 and 3. They can't get enough of it!
I will note that there is a scene where the kid almost paints his (now naked) butt (singing "B...more
I Ain't Gonna Paint No More! by Karen Beaumont, illustrated by David Catrow follows a child who delights in painting different body parts. The text is in the rhythm of "It Ain't Gonna Rain No More."
The text has a rolicking rhythm that makes it fun to read aloud. The bouncy rhyme is coupled with typography in which not one word is horizontally aligned. Many of the rhymes are predictable, which will encourage audience participation.
Ink drawings with curved and free form lines and a variety of pai...more
The text has a rolicking rhythm that makes it fun to read aloud. The bouncy rhyme is coupled with typography in which not one word is horizontally aligned. Many of the rhymes are predictable, which will encourage audience participation.
Ink drawings with curved and free form lines and a variety of pai...more
*Non-print text: Listened to book on CD
A dab of blue here, a splash of red there, a goopy smear of green . . . everywhere. To the tune of "It Ain't Gonna Rain No More," one creative kid floods his world with color, painting first the walls, then the ceiling, then HIMSELF! Before this feisty artist is through, he'll have painted his head, back, hands, legs, feet, and . . . Oh no--here comes Mama!
This book will become a favorite in your classroom for you and your students! I loved listening to it...more
A dab of blue here, a splash of red there, a goopy smear of green . . . everywhere. To the tune of "It Ain't Gonna Rain No More," one creative kid floods his world with color, painting first the walls, then the ceiling, then HIMSELF! Before this feisty artist is through, he'll have painted his head, back, hands, legs, feet, and . . . Oh no--here comes Mama!
This book will become a favorite in your classroom for you and your students! I loved listening to it...more
Love this book! It is not your traditionally written children's book at all. It uses language that we are constantly telling children is incorrect, as you can tell from the title. However, when dicussing different genres of writting with children this would be a great book to use to show examples of using certain language, although it may not be in correct form, to show how a character would speak. It is also a great book for students to make predictions about what the character will say next. T...more
The story is about a little boy who loves to paint. He paints nearly everything. The walls and the ceiling and the floor. When he gets put in the bathtub and his paints get hidden, he find them and paints himself. He keeps telling himelf that he ain't gonna paint no more. However, he can't resisit to paint more and more. He goes through his body and paints everything. For example, he uses red to paint his head. It is a very fun, colorful, and attention grabbing book.
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Mar 21, 2012
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I appreciated the cleverness that went along with this book. I tells the story of a little boy who likes to paint all the time all over everything from the walls to himself. One day, his mom comes home and finds that he has painted all over the house and she tells him he "ain't gonna paint no more". This does not seem to carry much weight because the next day, the mom comes home to find that he has painted every inch of his body. The depiction of the actual painting is what sticks out about this...more
This story is told with the tune of the song "It Ain't Gonna Rain No More". Although I am not familiar with the tune, I really enjoyed reading this story and looking at the illustrations. I absolutely loved the colors used as well as the paintings drawn by the main character who is just a young boy. He really loves painting and his mom caught him painting pictures on the floor, walls, ceiling, door, everywhere! When she says he can't paint no more, he begins to paint himself! The facial expressi...more
I really loved this book, I thought it was hilarious. I really thought it was great how it rhythmed throughout the entire story, I think children would really love that and find it funny. I thought that this is a great read aloud book for kindergarten and first grade students. I think that students will really think its funny how the little girl is painting all over herself. I think this book has great illustrations, they’re very bright and colorful and will keep the students engaged in the stor...more
This book is adorable. It is set to the tune of a familiar folk song, which makes it perfect to read (or sing) to young children. The little girl in the book is having fun getting messy! The pictures are colorful and fun to look at. I also like how the author goes over the different parts of the body. This is great for young children who are still learning how to label their body parts. The lines in the book rhyme, which can help children develop phonological awareness.
One caution though, when...more
One caution though, when...more
This book is for: PreK-5
Topic: The human body; You could ask the young students what each part of the body does. Introduce senses (touch, smell, hearing,etc)
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What a great book to use for predicting! The rhyming words allow students to predict the next part of the body the little boy will paint. I have seen this book read aloud in kindergarten and in college classrooms and everyone has enjoyed it! Allowing students to use props like paint brushes to pretend paint their heads or feet is...more
Topic: The human body; You could ask the young students what each part of the body does. Introduce senses (touch, smell, hearing,etc)
Reflection:
What a great book to use for predicting! The rhyming words allow students to predict the next part of the body the little boy will paint. I have seen this book read aloud in kindergarten and in college classrooms and everyone has enjoyed it! Allowing students to use props like paint brushes to pretend paint their heads or feet is...more
I loved the cover and end pages because they were fun and full or color and really help illustrate what young children’s art often times looks like. The text in the story is colored coded so that it matches the color of the body part that the young boy is going to paint next. The book is full of curved and free-form lines which go along perfectly with the silly boy’s need for self expression. I find myself drawn to the vast array of colors used in the illustrations and they give the book an up-b...more
This is a fun book to place in the Art center! I really enjoyed reading this book with Professor Meyers. I love the fact that the book comes to life with each page that you turn. This is a perfect book to use with cross-curricular activities such as learning about your body parts, colors, and rhyming words. When reading this book, students can participate in an active read aloud session where they predict based on the rhyming words. Someone is class suggested that students cut out body size mode...more
Feb 23, 2008
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This book makes me happy. She is such a funny girl. I want to paint my body too.
This was a cute book, full of bright colors, and an independent kid who just can't control his artistic impulses. So this story should have worked really well for us, but, well, it didn't.
My niece laughed at this book, but not nearly to the degree that I thought she would, and honestly, I think this book freaked my nephew out a little bit. I'm not sure if that's because the colors were so "in your face," or if it was because he can't stand being messy, so this book was like his worst nightmare....more
My niece laughed at this book, but not nearly to the degree that I thought she would, and honestly, I think this book freaked my nephew out a little bit. I'm not sure if that's because the colors were so "in your face," or if it was because he can't stand being messy, so this book was like his worst nightmare....more
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I really enjoyed this children's book because I liked how the words in the story flowed with some slang words and bright, entertaining illustrations. I believe children would love this book because of the rebillious personality and actions of the characters. I would use this book as a read-aloud for grades Pre-K through 2nd. It is a good book for the younger children to practice naming body parts and colors. Students could also use it to practice making predictions and sequencing events in the s...more
I really like this charming book about a budding (and prolific!) painter. The cadence and rhyming will help children work on their language skills, but the bad grammar might deter some parents away from the book. I think with a discussion on proper use of grammar (or not) this is a great read-aloud book for children to listen and read themselves.
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ALA Notable Children’s Book
Alabama Children’s Choice Book Award [Alabama]
New York Public Library 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing
Nick Jr. Family Magaz...more
Feb 15, 2012
Jamie
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This book was written in an interesting venacular. The words were more country, a lot of times there was an -ing word that lacked the g. I thought this was really interesting for a book that was geared towards children. It wasn't phonetically sound but rather written in a way that many might talk. I also like the emphasis on the pictures. The pictures made it so that you emphasized the painting because all the other pictures are black and white. I also really liked the fact that what he painted...more
A child has paint. A child has paint and no supervision, calls for a disaster. That’s what happens when this little one was left to paint. But he didn’t just paint on paper. He painted pictures on the floor, ceiling, walls, curtains and door. He painted until his mama yelled that he wasn’t going to paint anymore. So she hid the paints but like all children do, he found them. Instead of painting things, he decides to paint himself. So he paints his head, neck, back, arms, legs and feet. He paints...more
This is a really fun book to read to your class!! It is laugh out loud funny and is sure to have the children cracking up. The children can also follow along with the story and make predictions about what body part he will paint next. It is interactive, fun, and sure to be a hit in your classroom! The only downside to this book that I'm not sure would be a problem or not, is the use of improper English, such as "ain't". Although it is used as being funny and informal, I don't know if modeling th...more
This book is awesome because it could be used for different lessons. It could be used to teach children how to recognize rhyming words. It also mentions body parts because the words that rhyme are related to different parts of the body. Thus, it would be good to use to introduce children’s body parts. You could even go as far as creating a science lesson on colors around this book. Have your students experiment with mixing colors to see how many they could create. Overall, this book is really fu...more
This is a great book to put in the arts center, just like Lucy's Picture. The pages are extremely artistic and creative and this book is not only great for the artistic aspect but it is great for the rhyming words and the body part recognition. Also, prediction-type story lines such as this encourages oral language development for the students. In the arts center the teacher could have large body cutout for the students to paint on, just as the boy did in the story, except on the paper body and...more
This is a great book to use to introduce a lesson on rhyming. Also,this is a great book for code-breaking activities. A lesson I could teach to my class is to have the students trace other students bodies, and have the students match words with the body parts. They can do this by splitting into groups, and can include ELLs, or students with exceptionalities. I can do this by intermingling them, and encourage them to work together. It is a cute book. The students would love to do this in school a...more
I Ain't Gonna Paint No More is a cute story about a boy who loves to paint. His mother on the other hand does not like this hobby because he ends up getting carried away and paints the entire house. She scolds him and says he cannot paint no more. He tries to listen but he is addicted to painting! The book includes lots of repetition in rhymes making it a perfect read for ages three to six. The illustrations are also appealing because they include bright swirls and splashes of color that are viv...more
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I appreciate your review - it is so informative. Your word choice is very descriptive and helpful. Plus, after you shared this book in class,...more
May 24, 2008 12:29am