This Is a Ball (Books That Drive Kids Crazy! #2)

by Beck Stanton (Author)

This Is a Ball (Books That Drive Kids Crazy! #2)
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Reading Level: K − 1st Grade
Series: Books That Drive Kids Crazy!
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The Books That Drive Kids CRAZY! series offers parents, teachers, and storytellers a hilarious script for fun reading time together.

Book #2, This Is a Ball, is a boldly absurd spin-off of concept books, and an audaciously contrarian invitation for readers to practice deadpan delivery: after all, the picture on the cover clearly shows a cube, not a ball. The page that declares a princess is flying a kite at the beach shows an alien holding a balloon in a city...and on and on. What is WRONG with this silly book? Kids will demand to know--and all readers will be howling with laughter all along the way.

With strikingly simple text and art, Books That Drive Kids CRAZY! are ideal picks for emergent readers.

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A string of narratorial mistakes...gives children a chance to gleefully correct the adult reading it aloud. ...Another metafictive storytime crowd-pleaser.

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Beck Stanton
Beck Stanton is the co-creator of the Books That Drive Kids Crazy series and a mother, primary school teacher, and the creative director/owner of mybabymoments.com.au. She has worked extensively with children throughout her teaching career and in roles that include before-and-after school care center director, nanny, and youth and children's worker.

Matt Stanton is the co-creator of the Books That Drive Kids Crazy series and the co-creator of the bestselling Fart Monster picture book series, and has sold more than 100,000 copies of his books abroad. He is also the creative director of HarperCollinsPublishers Australia and New Zealand.

They live by the beach in Sydney with their daughter Bonnie and son Boston.
Classification
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ISBN-13
9780316434379
Lexile Measure
460
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Publication date
June 13, 2017
Series
Books That Drive Kids Crazy!
BISAC categories
JUV019000 - Juvenile Fiction | Humorous Stories
JUV051000 - Juvenile Fiction | Imagination & Play
Library of Congress categories
Humorous stories
JUVENILE FICTION / Humorous Stories
JUVENILE FICTION / General
JUVENILE FICTION / Concepts / Words
JUVENILE FICTION / Imagination & Play
JUVENILE FICTION / Concepts / Size & Shape

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