Books by Bob Staake
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review 1: Themes: 1st day of school, loneliness, friendship, bullying, gossipThis book reminded me of the French film The Red Balloon.I love the specific names and signs throughout the book, such as: "Caution - School Zone," "Gotham cafe," "Icarus clock," and "Metropolitan circus." Each il...
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review 1: My Pet Book tells the story of a boy who doesn't like dogs, cats, or fish--instead, he loves his pet book! But when his pet book goes missing, the boy has to go on an adventure to find it. I would use this book in my classroom to get students discussing what types of books they l...
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review 1: Finding out that Bob Staake writes, as well as illustrates, children's books more than three years after after I stopped working as a children's librarian is like showing up late to a really great party. I'm a bit annoyed that all these people have been having so much fun for so...
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review 1: This was a cute book that could be a lesson to young children. I loved that the pictures were so colorful and the illustrations were so different. The way that the illustrator made the people in the book is so different. It looks like the illustrator used a ton of different shape...
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review 1: Look! Another Book! is, like the first, Look! A Book!, is a seek-and-find book. The text in seek-and-find books usually is just there to tell you what to seek. Not so here. Sure you get the directions, but so much more, and the writing is at least ten times funnier than you ...