Get Up, Rick!

Green Light Readers Level 1

by F. Isabel Campoy, Bernard Adnet (Illustrator)

The sun is coming up, and a sleepy rooster is nowhere to be found. . . . It's a good thing he has a clever group of friends to help!

Genres: Childrens

24 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

F. ISABEL CAMPOY is the author of numerous children’s books in the areas of poetry, theatre, stories, biographies, and art. As a researcher she has published extensively bringing to the curriculum an awareness of the richness of the Hispanic culture. She is an educator specialized in the area of literacy and home school interaction, topics on which she lecturers nationally. An internationally recognized scholar devoted to the study of language acquisition, a field in which she started publishing in l973 after obtaining her degree in English Philology from Universidad Complutense in Madrid, Spain; and post graduate work in Reading University in England, and UCLA in the United States.

Her many accolades include ALA Notables, the San Francisco Library Award, the Reading the World Award from the University of San Francisco, the NABE Ramón Santiago Award, the International Latino Children’s Book Award, and nine Junior Library Guild selections. She is a member of the North American Academy of Spanish Language.

Reviews

[Julian]

Good for my reader, but the story line is for little kid, so my daughter found it boring. It's become kind of a joke, so in that sense it was a good read.

[Amy Brown]

Green Light Readers Level 1 Simple sentences and mostly one syallable words. There's a response activity at the end of the story.