Out the Door
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Follow a girl through her day in a busy city as she travels to school and back again in this inviting book that teaches directional concepts like over, under, and through. Out the door, down the stoop, past the neighbors, along the block … Through tree-lined streets, onto a crowded subway car, into the classroom with friends, and finally, retracing her steps back home again. There’s so much to see in Christy Hale’s warm, richly textured collage artwork and simple, evocative text set in a busy Brooklyn cityscape. Out the Door is the perfect back-to-school book for young kids learning to find their way around a city. Parents and teachers can use this read-aloud to familiarize kids with a host of directional words to describe their first school days.A New York Public Library Best Book of the YearA School Library Journal Best Book of the YearA Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
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After our teacher read aloud Harriet the Spy, my childhood best friend and I started our own detective agency. We dressed in disguises and roamed the neighborhood observing people and taking notes. Back at spy headquarters (my friend’s house) we shared these discoveries and tried to make sense of the lives of others. Our play evolved, and soon every day after school we rushed home to write, illustrate, and read aloud our original stories to each other. By age ten I knew what I wanted to be when I grew up. I have illustrated over twenty-five award-winning books for children, and have also written three including: The East-West House: Noguchi’s Childhood in Japan; Dreaming Up: A Celebration of Building, which was an ALA Notable, a Horn Book Honor Award winner, an International Reading Association Honor Award winner, and more; and Water Land: Land and Water Forms Around the World. I also work as an art director, designer, and educator. I teach “Writing for Picture Books” at the Academy of Art in San Francisco. I live with my family in Palo Alto, CA.
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Book Details
- ISBN
- 9780823446445
- Publication Date
- October 6, 2020
- Publisher
- Neal Porter Books
- Page Count
- 40
- Audience
- Picture
- Reading Age
- 3 - 6 years
- Lib. of Congress (LCCN)
- 2019033882
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