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Think Big (2012)

by Liz Garton Scanlon(Favorite Author)

3.57 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1599906112 (ISBN13: 9781599906119)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

Bloomsbury USA Childrens

review 1: Whenever I browse in libraries or on Goodreads and in bookstores, I am on the lookout for books that the teachers with whom I work can use. I generally know their class themes, or individual units for each child and keep some of that in my mind while I look. This book fits one particular teacher well because she always has her class create and host a Halloween haunted house for others to visit and in the spring, her students participate in a play performed for the entire school (these are 1st-2nd graders). They act in it, make costumes, props & sets. The book, Think Big is for this teacher and for any theater that shows students how big goals yield satisfying results. THINK BIG is about creativity, showing beautiful illustrations telling the story of happy kids d... moreoing art, making costumes, performing, and so on. The words support the idea that no idea is too big to try.
review 2: This is a fantastic celebration of all forms of creativity, told in terse verse. The art shows kids preparing for a school production, and the text names the activity:excerpt:Black inkLine, shadeKnit, purlHandmadeNo thoughtToo greatYou thinkWe'll waitI love that last couple I shared there because the waiting is important. If you're reading this book aloud, it might be tempting to zip through it, because it's so short. But don't. Read slowly. Let kids study the picture. Help them figure out what is happening on each spread. Art and understanding both take time.And then the book ends:Big breathBrave heartReady, set...Make art!What a great celebration, full of both art and heart! less

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