A Pet for Grandma
"My friend Ana gave me the idea for this book. After reading my chapter book Véro and Philippe, which is based on my childhood, she asked, 'Did you really have a pet snail when you were growing up in France? I had a pet beetle, like lots of kids in the Philippines.'"
Book Description:
To cheer up his Filipino grandma, Ken gives her a pet. As a result, he discovers a part of her he never knew about!Levels: Guided Reading Level H
Reading Recovery: 14-15
Seedling Level: Fluent
Paperback, 12 pages, 242 words
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Available from Seedling Publications. Click here for ordering information:www.seedlingpub.comAbout the Illustrator:
Suzanne Accetta has been drawing and painting professionally for over twenty-five years. She has won numerous awards and her paintings are exhibited internationally in public, private and corporate collections. Suzanne was featured in American Artist Magazine and in The Complete Colored Pencil Book. Her biography is included in Who's Who In American Art. This past year she illustrated three children's books for Seedlings Publications and is teaching drawing and painting for the theatre at Otterbein College. Through her children's interest in theatre, she returned to school in the Theatre Department at Otterbein and found the principles in visual art easily apply to the theatre venue. She designed her first professional and critically acclaimed set for Columbus Children's Theatre's (CCT) production of The Secret Garden. She has since directed and designed numerous shows at CCT. Suzanne is proud to have directed and designed Pleasure Guild productions for Children's Hospital at the Palace Theatre. It is the largest, locally produced children's theatre event in Ohio. This year's production will be Honk! The Ugly Duckling Musical and will be her sixth year, having directed Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Peter Pan, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Sound of Music, and Once Upon a Mattress.Philippines Links for Teachers:
www.seasite.niu.edu/Tagalog/philippines_module_for_teachers_FS.htm.Further reading for older readers:
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