Telephone
Telephone

Telephone

Written by Mac Barnett
Hardcover
$17.99
$16.97
4 - 8
Reading age
40
Page count
3
Words per page
Sep 9, 2014
Publication date

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What's Telephone About

Publisher Summary

It’s time to fly home for dinner! In this witty picture book from award-winning and bestselling author Mac Barnett, a mother bird gives the bird next to her a message for little Peter. But passing messages on a telephone line isn’t as simple as it sounds. Each subsequent bird understands Mama’s message according to its own very particular hobbies. Will Peter ever get home for dinner? This uproarious interpretation of a favorite children’s game will get everyone giggling and is sure to lead to countless rereads.

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    My kids love this book. We have read it over and over again, and if something happened to our copy, I would immediately replace it. It has a clever premise--a message gets changed each time it's passed from bird to bird along a telephone wire--and gets sillier and sillier as it goes. The format and text makes it easy to use a lot of different voices and make funny noises, so it always results in giggles from my pre-schooler and toddler.

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    Author
    Mac Barnett

    Mac Barnett is the coauthor of the Terrible Two series and the author of many picture books, which have won multiple Caldecott Honors.

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Book Details

ISBN
9781452110233
Publication Date
September 9, 2014
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Original Publication Date
August 5, 2014
Page Count
40
Words Per Page
3
Audience
Picture
Reading Age
4 - 8 years
Lib. of Congress (LCCN)
2013040706

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