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Float, Flutter: Ready-to-Read Pre-Level 1
Award-winning author Marilyn Singer opens up an entire world of imagination in only twenty-four rhyming words in this Pre-Level 1 Ready-to-Read about how animals move!
Come see animals of all different kinds hurry to their very special destination in this delightful story that beginning readers will love reading again and again. See animals float, flutter, scuttle, slide, crawl, clamber, gallop, and glide as they move from place to place.
This story features only twenty-four rhyming words and comes with a pronunciation guide!
Come see animals of all different kinds hurry to their very special destination in this delightful story that beginning readers will love reading again and again. See animals float, flutter, scuttle, slide, crawl, clamber, gallop, and glide as they move from place to place.
This story features only twenty-four rhyming words and comes with a pronunciation guide!
32 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 2019
1 person is currently reading
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About the author
Marilyn Singer
164 books100 followersMarilyn Singer was born in the Bronx (New York City) on October 3, 1948 and lived most of her early life in N. Massapequa (Long Island), NY. She attended Queens College, City University of New York, and for her junior year, Reading University, England. She holds a B.A. in English from Queens and an M.A. in Communications from New York University.
In 1974, after teaching English in New York City high schools for several years, she began to write - initially film notes, catalogues, teacher's guides and film strips. Then, one day, when she was sitting in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, she penned a story featuring talking insect characters she'd made up when she was eight. Encouraged by the responses she got, she wrote more stories and in 1976 her first book, The Dog Who Insisted He Wasn't, was published by E.P.Dutton & Co.
Since then, Marilyn has published over seventy books for children and young adults. Her genres are many and varied, including realistic novels, fantasies, non-fiction, fairy tales, picture books, mysteries and poetry. She likes writing many different kinds of books because it's challenging and it keeps her from getting bored. She has won several Children's Choice and Parents' Choice Awards, as well as the following: the Creature Carnival, Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award Honor Book, 2005; I Believe in Water: Twelve Brushes with Religion, New York Public Library's "Best Books for the Teen Age," 2001; Stay True: Short Stories for Strong Girls, Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults, 2000 (YALSA); On the Same Day in March, Booklist's Top Ten Science Books of 2000; NCSS-CBC Notable Book, 2000; Deal with a Ghost, finalist, YA category, Edgar Award, 1998; It Can't Hurt Forever, Maud Hart Lovelace Award, 1983; The Course of True Love Never Did Run Smooth, ALA Best Book for Young Adults, 1983; Turtle in July, NCTE Notable, N.Y.Times Best Illustrated and Time Magazine Best Children's Books of 1989; Turtle in July was also a Reading Rainbow review book.
Marilyn currently lives in Brooklyn, NY, with her husband Steve; their standard poodle Oggi, a cousin of their beloved and recently departed poodle Easy, seen in the home page photo; a cat named August ; two collared doves named Jubilee and Holiday; and a starling named Darling. Her interests include dog training, reading, hiking, bird-watching, gardening, meditation, playing computer adventure games and going to the movies and the theatre. She's also a major Star Trek fan.
In 1974, after teaching English in New York City high schools for several years, she began to write - initially film notes, catalogues, teacher's guides and film strips. Then, one day, when she was sitting in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, she penned a story featuring talking insect characters she'd made up when she was eight. Encouraged by the responses she got, she wrote more stories and in 1976 her first book, The Dog Who Insisted He Wasn't, was published by E.P.Dutton & Co.
Since then, Marilyn has published over seventy books for children and young adults. Her genres are many and varied, including realistic novels, fantasies, non-fiction, fairy tales, picture books, mysteries and poetry. She likes writing many different kinds of books because it's challenging and it keeps her from getting bored. She has won several Children's Choice and Parents' Choice Awards, as well as the following: the Creature Carnival, Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award Honor Book, 2005; I Believe in Water: Twelve Brushes with Religion, New York Public Library's "Best Books for the Teen Age," 2001; Stay True: Short Stories for Strong Girls, Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults, 2000 (YALSA); On the Same Day in March, Booklist's Top Ten Science Books of 2000; NCSS-CBC Notable Book, 2000; Deal with a Ghost, finalist, YA category, Edgar Award, 1998; It Can't Hurt Forever, Maud Hart Lovelace Award, 1983; The Course of True Love Never Did Run Smooth, ALA Best Book for Young Adults, 1983; Turtle in July, NCTE Notable, N.Y.Times Best Illustrated and Time Magazine Best Children's Books of 1989; Turtle in July was also a Reading Rainbow review book.
Marilyn currently lives in Brooklyn, NY, with her husband Steve; their standard poodle Oggi, a cousin of their beloved and recently departed poodle Easy, seen in the home page photo; a cat named August ; two collared doves named Jubilee and Holiday; and a starling named Darling. Her interests include dog training, reading, hiking, bird-watching, gardening, meditation, playing computer adventure games and going to the movies and the theatre. She's also a major Star Trek fan.
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August 21, 2022
Read for my toddler's nap time. Different animals walk with a different name. Horse canter, cat pad, swan glide, crab scuttle, snake slither, etc. Love this!
Book 7 out of 1000 books before Kindergarten.
Book 7 out of 1000 books before Kindergarten.
January 5, 2019
This is an easy reader. There is only one world on each page. There is a guide on how to pronouce the words at the beginning of the book. I absolutely love the illustrations.
May 28, 2025
My two year old had fun repeating the words after I’d read them to him
January 30, 2019
This is a list of amazing verbs with pictures of animals demonstrating.
July 2, 2024
Float, Flutter by Marilyn Singer is a great early reader children’s book. Giving adjectives and different descriptive words of animals' actions creates a stronger vocabulary for children. While reading the book, the rhythm of the book flowed smoothly and nicely my voice automatically adjusted to the words and I enjoyed that!
March 24, 2019
I didn't like it, but my toddler enjoyed it.
June 26, 2019
Cute illustrations, but it's hard to read in a cadence with only one word per page.
July 28, 2019
3 stars
November 25, 2019
Linc was bored "so its just like one word on each page?"
June 3, 2020
Kids and animals are up and about, starting their day and moving towards their destinations in their own special way.
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March 2, 2021
Great vocabulary of different ways to move.
March 25, 2022
A book of verbs in a rhyming pattern of how animals move. I really liked this, as the pictures of each animal really help to differentiate the unique verbs that are used to describe how each moves.
November 3, 2023
An early reader with one word on each page. Many of the words are uncommon for young readers, but not complex. Except ‘porpoise’, whoever thought that was a good idea needs a new editor.
February 23, 2024
My 6 year old daughter was almost able to read this book by herself!
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February 11, 2019just 24 words and vibrant pictures make a beautiful book for a young child
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