“Young children will enjoy happy shivers of anticipation as this cumulative tale builds, and they’ll be delighted by the final surprise, when everyone sees that what Hattie has been saying is true!”
“Young children will enjoy happy shivers of anticipation as this cumulative tale builds, and they’ll be delighted by the final surprise, when everyone sees that what Hattie has been saying is true!”
A collection of comedy poems, many with a sting in the tail that beg to be read aloud. The rhymes and rhythms are fairly simple and the bizarre topics ranging from the glory of snot to the fact that the word orange has no rhyme make these the ideal way to introduce young children to the glories of poetry.
“The Moffats tells about four young children and their mother who live in a small town in Connecticut. Their adventures are based on Estes’ memories of her childhood and focus on a working-class, single-parent American family during World War I.”