The Playground Problem
(Ready to Read: Level One: Robin Hill School)

Author

Margaret McNamara

Illustrator

Mike Gordon

Publication Date

April 01, 2004

Genre / Grade Band

- / 2^nd − 3^rd

The Playground Problem (Ready to Read: Level One: Robin Hill School)

Paperback

Description

There's a problem on the playground! The boys won't let the girls play soccer with them during recess. Emma is furious! So she figures out a plan to get them to change their minds. And in the end they all learn that the best teams are the ones that everyone gets to play on!

Publication date

April 01, 2004

Classification

Page Count

ISBN-13

9780689858765

Lexile Measure

400

Guided Reading Level

Publisher

Simon Spotlight

Series

Ready to Read: Level One

BISAC categories

Library of Congress categories

Schools
Sex role
Soccer

School Library Journal

PreS-Gr 1-The first title features a little boy having bath-time fun. In imaginative color illustrations, the bubbles multiply and float through the house, outdoors, and into the neighborhood until, "Will bubbles never stop?/Sun gets hotter./Bubbles pop." Short sentences, rhyming words, and repetition help beginning readers to feel successful. In the second book, first-grader Emma wants to play soccer with the boys on the playground, so her dad helps her to devise a plan to make them understand that it's OK for boys and girls to play together. This is a useful story for dealing with gender roles, emotions, and conflict resolution. The colorful cartoon characters are endearing. Both books are solid additions.-Tracy Bell, Durham Public Schools, NC

Margaret McNamara

Margaret McNamara is the author of the Robin Hill School series, and she gets many ideas from her daughter's own school experiences. She lives in New York City.

Mike Gordon illustrates the Robin Hill School series and has an extensive and varied background in illustration and design. He lives with his family in Santa Barbara, California.

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