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Reviewed on June 1, 2011 | Preschool to Grade 4
PreS-Gr 1—These books support pre- and emerging readers through clear and engaging writing. Jones uses brief text to present action: "Balls roll. Balls spin. Balls knock down bowling pins." The text leaps to life with Bronson's boldly colored figures frozen in action against color-saturated backgrounds. Viewers will have to work to interpret the abstract, aerial views of many pages, including a bowling lane whose sides intersect and some characters with heads and limbs akimbo, minimizing the value of these illustrations as textual decoding aids. Ant compares objects of increasing size, rang...Log In or Sign Up to Read More