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From Ed's to Ned's
What starts with just two kids quickly escalates into a rhyming, rollicking romp through the neighborhood, where all the kids are invited!
Climb to Cal's
Whirl to Will's
Trampoline from Ted's to Jill's!
Two sisters venture out of their house and pick up Cal, then all three head to Will's. Four become eight and then eight become twelve, and before you know it, there are twenty-two!
Never touching the ground, the kids have no shortage of ways to get to their pal's place when there is a mission at hand! Trampolines and slides. Propellers and parachutes. Diving boards and swinging vines. Find your favorite mode and join the friends on the adventurous trip!
A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
A Junior Library Guild Selection
"There is no safe or sound reasoning behind any of the journeys herein, but the joyful abandon is something any child will embrace."-- School Library Journal , starred review
"Mesmerizing."-- Publishers Weekly , starred review
Climb to Cal's
Whirl to Will's
Trampoline from Ted's to Jill's!
Two sisters venture out of their house and pick up Cal, then all three head to Will's. Four become eight and then eight become twelve, and before you know it, there are twenty-two!
Never touching the ground, the kids have no shortage of ways to get to their pal's place when there is a mission at hand! Trampolines and slides. Propellers and parachutes. Diving boards and swinging vines. Find your favorite mode and join the friends on the adventurous trip!
A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
A Junior Library Guild Selection
"There is no safe or sound reasoning behind any of the journeys herein, but the joyful abandon is something any child will embrace."-- School Library Journal , starred review
"Mesmerizing."-- Publishers Weekly , starred review
48 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2020
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December 19, 2021
A fantastic journey of collecting friends. The illustrations are full of fun details, always something new to notice.
January 29, 2021
I only include my favorite picture books on Good Reads. This one is nothing but delightful. Truly. A simple story about kids travelling in all kinds of creative ways from house to house--by trampoline, parachute, even circus cannon blast--to visit their burgeoning group of friends, until those darn parents call them all home to bed. Of course, the kids comply . . . or do they? A great read-a-loud.
October 6, 2020
Children travel in many imaginative ways to get from one location to another. The illustrations are delightful and surprising, and the text has bits of rhyme and alliteration, but not so much that it all becomes annoying.
October 26, 2022
Fun. Adventurous. Adorable illustrations. My toddler loves this book.
October 4, 2020
Twins start the action in this book when they travel to Cal's. From there, others join them and the whole gang continues to travel to see friends in rather unique ways. This continues until bedtime when everyone heads home to sleep in their own beds. Readers see them in their own beds toward the end of the story. However, the end continues the travels on to somewhere else. The simple text works but early in the book, readers know exactly what is coming before they turn the page. They will, however, enjoy searching for the cat on each spread to see where it is.
July 14, 2021
We used to dream of this exact same thing when I was a kid. While we couldn’t slide or trampoline from house to house, we were able to get from one end of the block to the other without touching the ground using garage roofs, trees, stone walls, chain link fences, old cars, etc.
This brought back such great memories! Send your kids outside, tell them to come back for dinner and see what they come up with.
This brought back such great memories! Send your kids outside, tell them to come back for dinner and see what they come up with.
December 7, 2021
An interesting book about children moving from location to location in multiple ways. Each phrase and movement is written in alliteration. Reader’s will enjoy the action words. Adults might encourage children to describe how the kids are moving instead of just telling them.
However, this is an odd book. The children finally arriving at the intended destination only to be called home because it’s time for bed could prove frustrating for readers. No sooner are the kids home and in bed, then they all get up, sneak out (apparently) and “launch to Lou’s” who happens to live on the moon. I guess it signifies the kids are off to dreamland, but I think it will further confuse the situation. Not recommended for storytime. Maybe for one-on-one reading that will include discussion of the goings-on in the story.
However, this is an odd book. The children finally arriving at the intended destination only to be called home because it’s time for bed could prove frustrating for readers. No sooner are the kids home and in bed, then they all get up, sneak out (apparently) and “launch to Lou’s” who happens to live on the moon. I guess it signifies the kids are off to dreamland, but I think it will further confuse the situation. Not recommended for storytime. Maybe for one-on-one reading that will include discussion of the goings-on in the story.
December 5, 2020
The journey begins with two girls climbing to Cal’s. Then with Cal along they Whirl to Will’s. Then with Will in the lead they “Trampoline from Ted’s to Jill’s ...” and so on and so on. They employ trains, slides, swinging vines and even cannon-blasts to get from place to place.
When they finally arrive at Ned’s, with all 21 kids in tow, there’s plenty to do. After all, they are planning a Launch to Lou’s.
Fun.
When they finally arrive at Ned’s, with all 21 kids in tow, there’s plenty to do. After all, they are planning a Launch to Lou’s.
Fun.
January 24, 2021
Super cute! All forms of creative transportation to different children's houses - and a mischievous ending!
February 17, 2026
Few words, filled with action and illustrated with a flourish, demonstrate how many ways there are to get from one friend's house to another's. Includes whirling, zipping, digging, and more.
July 15, 2020
The book starts with twins who travel via creativity to a friends house. From there on the group of kids grows bigger and the ways of traveling from friends to friends homes gets more fun! I think my readers will enjoy the creativity and will enjoy coming up with ways they would go to their friends homes. I also really loved the illustrations in this book. Lastly, I liked searching for the orange cat in every picture.
August 18, 2020
A clever concept, good for preschoolers to point out what you notice on the page (not much of a story).
The text dropped the ball - I thought it was clear that alliteration would be used on every page (Jumped to Jenny's, etc.) but then it said something like "Flew to Paul and Carol's," and the effect was ruined!
The text dropped the ball - I thought it was clear that alliteration would be used on every page (Jumped to Jenny's, etc.) but then it said something like "Flew to Paul and Carol's," and the effect was ruined!
December 27, 2020
This book is deceptively simple but look more closely and its full of nuance and emotion. The illustrations are childlike in the best possible way. It made me want to be a kid and run around my neighborhood again.
May 24, 2021
Nice vocabulary, but I did not like the imagery of children jumping off the roof. I also think it would have been better as an interactive board book with indented tracks for readers to follow with their fingers.
March 25, 2022
Smiling children with a variety of skin colors travel from house to (sometimes unusual) house using all methods of conveyance. The colorful, sketch like illustrations have many details for young readers to pore over, while the text is minimal.
June 19, 2026
I believe this is the fourth book I've read from Gideon Sterer...and I've noticed he's not had the same illustrator twice. I failed to notice the publisher each time. I'm so curious about this.
Clever book and I imagine it to be so entertaining for children.
Clever book and I imagine it to be so entertaining for children.
July 27, 2020
so many ways to get from here to there. fun and imaginative things to look at along the way!
August 15, 2020
My kiddos (3,5) loved the illustrations. I appreciated the simple text that allowed for plenty of imagination and exploration.
September 21, 2020
Find out modes of transportation and how people can get from here to there.
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September 26, 2020
The bonus star for adorable illustrations!
November 30, 2020
Imaginative ways to travel
December 10, 2020
A rhyming, alliterative story about children traveling in all sorts of imaginative ways from one house to another's.
December 21, 2020
I think there could be some fun follow-up activities here that are STREAM related.
December 21, 2020
This was cute. It would be a great book to use when studying literary techniques, especially alliterations. It's also nice and silly and there is a lot happening in the illustrations.
December 22, 2020
Funny, delightful, surprising
December 29, 2020
Tremendous rhythm and beautiful illustration.
December 29, 2020
Saw this was a 2020 best book from SLJ and ordered it. I am not disappointed! Beautiful book!
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January 10, 2021I wasn't a fan.
January 16, 2021
Cute book with imaginative illustrations. My kid loved finding the kitty cat on each page.
I loved that there wasn't a bunch of words to read.
I loved that there wasn't a bunch of words to read.
February 10, 2021
Simple, but fun with an unexpected ending.
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