Synopsis
A young girl demonstrates how to plant a flower garden.
Susan Hepler - Children's Literature
Each book in this "Welcome Books" nonfiction series about making things features a child of seven who introduces himself or herself and proceeds in clear directions to tell how to create something out of common materials. Text of one or two sentences per page is faced by an illustration of the process. Specialized vocabulary is revisited in a pronunciation glossary, Website s and related books are mentioned, and an index is included. Here, Mark shows readers how to plant green beans in a planter box a project well suited for preschool or primary grades and in directions that new readers can read for themselves. While photos show Mark at work, the end only shows him holding a bunch of green beans like the ones he will grow so readers will have to wait, along with Mark, to see what bean plants look like. The book also invites slightly older readers to write their own simple directions and create illustrations or photographs for a craft project they can recommend to their classmates. 2002, Rosen Book Works/Scholastic,
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Children's Literature
Each book in this "Welcome Books" nonfiction series about making things features a child of seven who introduces himself or herself and proceeds in clear directions to tell how to create something out of common materials. Text of one or two sentences per page is faced by an illustration of the process. Specialized vocabulary is revisited in a pronunciation glossary, Website s and related books are mentioned, and an index is included. Here, Mark shows readers how to plant green beans in a planter box—a project well suited for preschool or primary grades and in directions that new readers can read for themselves. While photos show Mark at work, the end only shows him holding a bunch of green beans like the ones he will grow so readers will have to wait, along with Mark, to see what bean plants look like. The book also invites slightly older readers to write their own simple directions and create illustrations or photographs for a craft project they can recommend to their classmates. 2002, Rosen Book Works/Scholastic,— Susan Hepler