by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Fiction
This Rookie Reader has 59 words in it and they’re all talking about the fun of picking a pumpkin and turn it into a Jack o’Lantern for Halloween. There is an emphasis on shapes in this story. We notice the square field, the round pumpkins and the triangle...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Picture Book
I can just see the wide eyes of the young listeners as the pages turn and the different animals are revealed in all their glory. ‘Chimpanzees are cheeky’ and ‘hoopoes are happy.’ Do you know what a hoopoe is? Me either. The book gently explores...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Fiction
Jill is very excited because tonight her two best friends, Meg and Annie, are coming to spend the night at her farm for a Pony Scout sleepover. The girls get to meet the horses they will ride the next day. One of the horses is new to the farm, Rosy. Rosy is a little...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Picture Book
When Rebecca Estelle was a little girl, for one whole month all she had to eat were pumpkins. After all these years, she has white hair now, she doesn’t even want to look at a pumpkin. But one day the pumpkin truck spills a pumpkin into her yard and leaves....
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Picture Book
Okay, all you desperate parents out there whose toddlers or preschoolers don’t like to sit for a book, take heart. This is hilarious. So, meet Marvin the Ape. He isn’t all that happy at the zoo, so one day he heads out when nobody’s looking. No one...
