7/12/2023 0 Comments One hundred days of school![]() This is not a typical gathering, since Lina’s maternal relatives are a royal family of Windtamers who have power over the weather and live in castles floating on clouds. ![]() Ice princess Lina must navigate family and school in this early chapter read. The dynamic interaction between the characters invites readers to take risks, push boundaries, and have a little unscripted fun of their own The creative naiveté of the “clay mates” is perfectly captured by Petty’s feisty, spot-on dialogue: “This was your idea…and it was a BAD one.” Eldridge’s endearing sculpted images are photographed against the stark white background of an artist’s work table to great effect. How are they going to “fix selves” on time? Soon a hippopotamus and peacock are staring bug-eyed at a returning pair of astonished hands. But the sound of approaching footsteps panics the pair of Picassos. After all, the opportunity to become a “pig-e-phant” doesn’t come around every day. An ear pulled here and an extra eye placed there, and before you can shake a carving stick, a spurt of frenetic self-exploration-expressed as a tangled black scribble-reveals a succession of smug hybrid beasts. The owl is pleased, but the wolf convinces it that the best is yet to come. The hands disappear, leaving the friends to their own devices. A pair of hands descends, and soon, amid a flurry of squishing and prodding and poking and sculpting, a handsome gray wolf and a stately brown owl emerge. The gray anticipates an adventure, while the brown appears apprehensive. Reinvention is the name of the game for two blobs of clay.Ī blue-eyed gray blob and a brown-eyed brown blob sit side by side, unsure as to what’s going to happen next. A female crossing guard wears a hijab some characters wear glasses.Ī celebration of the first 100 days starring a boy brimming with personality. Other adults and classmates appear with diverse skin tones, hair styles, and hair colors. Oswald’s full-color illustrations depict Harry and family as white Harry’s best friend has brown skin. Frequent references to puke and boogers enhance the humor in this captivating tale, written with keen awareness for the way kids speak, think, and behave. Readers will love joining him on this realistic, comical, heartwarming journey. Abetted by loving family, kind teachers, and close friends, Harry blossoms into one terrific kid. As the days proceed, Harry makes friends (and becomes a great one himself) figures out silent “E” and aces sight words creates pompom monsters articulates uncomfortable emotions overcomes a fear of guinea pigs devises an ingenious way to bring 100 items to the 100th-day celebration and much more. Details of the subsequent 99 days are incorporated, journal-style, into the novel’s 19 chapters and narrated in third person, present tense, providing a nice sense of immediacy. As described in “Day 1” (chapters contain multiple days, each labeled), Mommy and Charlotte, Harry’s older sister, help him face “big-kid school” on his first day. Harry Bergen-Murphy, age 5, is starting first grade but doesn’t feel ready. The first 100 days of school are a really big deal.
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