If You're Hoppy

by April Pulley Sayre (Author) Jackie Urbanovic (Illustrator)

If You're Hoppy
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Reading Level: K − 1st Grade
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Are you feeling hoppy?
Hop
hop
hop.
Like a rabbit?
Or a kangaroo?
Or a frog?

If the answer is yes, 
this book will make you happy.
If the answer is no, 
this book will make you
hoppy
and
happy!

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PreS-Gr 1--In this fresh spin on a favorite song, "If you're hoppy and you know it, you're...a frog." Or perhaps you are "a bunny. Or a cricket." On the other hand, "If you're growly and you know it, you're a dog. Or a bear. OR--A TUMMY, OVER THERE!" The page turns are perfectly timed for dramatic flair. Young listeners won't be able to resist the many invitations to "stretch your toes," "make a sound," and "swing your wings." Urbanovic's sprightly watercolor-and-ink cartoons add humor and vivacious energy. A small frog joins in all the actions and in a shadow cast by a flashlight he offers up another verse: "If you're slimy and scaly and mean, you're a...oh never mind." Sure to be a storytime staple, with many requests for repeat performances.--Linda Ludke, London Public Library, Ontario, Canada

Copyright 2011 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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"Sure to be a storytime staple, with many requests for repeat performances."—School Library Journal
April Pulley Sayre
April Pulley Sayre and Jeff Sayre are a husband-and-wife team who lead ecotours and travel extensively to study, photograph, and videotape animals in the rain forests of Panama, Madagascar, and Ecuador. They also speak at schools, botanical gardens, zoos, and nature festivals. Together they wrote a natural history book for adults. Jeff Sayre is an ecologist specializing in native plants and birds. April Pulley Sayre is an award-winning author of more than forty books for children. The Sayres love to brainstorm and laugh together - which is how the idea for ONE IS A SNAIL came about.

Randy Cecil graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design and is the illustrator of numerous books for children. He says of ONE IS A SNAIL, "It was great fun to figure out how these strange creatures would react in all these different combinations. Crabs seem to have the best time together!"
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780061566349
Lexile Measure
410
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Publication date
February 22, 2011
Series
-
BISAC categories
JUV039050 - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Emotions & Feelings
JUV002000 - Juvenile Fiction | Animals | General
Library of Congress categories
Animals
Stories in rhyme
Missouri Building Block Picture Book Award
Nominee 2012 - 2012
Grand Canyon Reader Award
Nominee 2016 - 2016

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