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How You Got So Smart
Every stage in growing up has its own fun and challenges, and the adorable star of this book faces each one with gusto. As a baby, there?s the taste-everything phase?whether it is meant to be eaten?or not! And as a toddler, there?s the question-everything phase. But all the while baby is growing up and becoming a curious kid whose exploration of the world leads to amazing...more
Hardcover, 32 pages
Published
April 29th 2010
by Putnam Juvenile
(first published 2010)
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From infant to child, you have a come a long, long way! This book reveals just how you got as smart as you are. You watched and listened. Chewed on things. Explored and asked lots of questions. You investigated, made friends, and were very brave. Each and every step taught you something, and that is what made you so very smart. This jolly book takes a humorous but sincere look at how babies grow into amazing children every day.
Milgrim’s success with this book is in its tone. It is funny but real...more
Milgrim’s success with this book is in its tone. It is funny but real...more
A nice way to give kids props for all that they do to grow as people, showing that being smart is beyond "book-smarts." Some of the kid's accomplishments I would question, like trying new food (eww... it looked like squid...). Still, I'm sure many pages will resonate with young readers. I did have to read Milgrim's author biography aloud to staff, as it well summed up the book.
Aug 05, 2010
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This book humorously and playfully looks at the stages of growing up: from the taste-everything stage, to the ask-a-thousand-questions stage. A very clever look at the ways children explore and learn about their world.
This book is very cute. OK, I like David Milgrim's books very much, but I felt that this was trying to tap into the give a picture book to a graduating teen market. I felt the marketing too strongly.:(
This is like a poem. It's very sweet. This is an easy read for children. This book will give young children inspirations. It tells children that they are smart the day they were born.Children need that kind of encouragement.
I can totally see this book being a book parents buy for their kids at high school graduation, kind of like "Oh, the Places You'll Go." A really sweet, encouraging book.
This would make a nice one on one book with a child entering or leaving kindergarten, or just whenever your child needs a self esteem boost.
Wonderful esteem bilding book!! For all ages! Nice graduation gift also. Accomplishments are achieved in many fashions!
How You Got So Smart by David Milgrim is a book that celebrates the milestones of childhood. It follows a baby boy as he grows and learns and goes through school and becomes "so smart".
My daughter liked the book, especially Milgrim's complex and often times silly illustrations. For instance, there's typically a pink doughnut on the page. I don't know if this is something he does in every book but it certainly caught our attention in this one.
The only think Harriet wanted to be different with the...more
My daughter liked the book, especially Milgrim's complex and often times silly illustrations. For instance, there's typically a pink doughnut on the page. I don't know if this is something he does in every book but it certainly caught our attention in this one.
The only think Harriet wanted to be different with the...more
This book will complement our IB unit, "Where We Are In Place and Time".
Nice rhythm, nice rhyme, sort of a "Congratulations, You Did It!" book for Kindergarten or Grade School Grads.
Perfect for storytimes about individuality.
This would make a good graduation gift.
very funny
This book was okay. I though that it would have been a better book to show children but I just really didn't like it. To me it didn't seem realistic. I would recommend this book for no one, I didn't like it one bit.
A perfect preschool graduation present book. So much growing up in those preschool years and for kids who are in daycare it is really a lot of time they spend together
Jun 18, 2013
Hannoschw
marked it as to-read
Feb 25, 2013
Igraine
marked it as auf-gar-keinen-fall
Dec 22, 2012
Amanda
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Jun 05, 2012
Erin
marked it as child-read
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