Entries Tagged as 'Mary Ann Hoberman'

You Read to Me, I’ll Read to You: Very Short Stories to Read Together

April 9th, 2016 · 1 Comment · Books

Review By JENNIFER KALI My six-year-old daughter loves this book. It is a collection of short poems designed to be read by two people, each taking a turn to read one or two lines, indicated by different colored text. It is simple enough for a new reader and more fun than books we with which […]

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You Read to Me, I’ll Read to You: Very Short Fables to Read Together

December 3rd, 2013 · No Comments · Books

Review By KATRINA DONOVAN FLEMING This is the newest book in a series of fun and playful poems that children can read in pairs. The poems are arranged in three columns. Person A reads the left column, Person B reads the right, and the middle column is read together. Thus the poems read like a […]

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Forget-Me-Nots: Poems to Learn by Heart

April 29th, 2012 · 3 Comments · Books

Review By HOMA WOODRUM We’ve been really enjoying our review copy of Forget-Me-Nots: Poems to Learn by Heart. Full of lovely illustrations by Michael Emberly, the poems are organized into eleven categories and are all selected by former Children’s Poet Laureate Mary Ann Hoberman with a mind towards memorization. My 3-1/2 year old daughter and I […]

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Whose Garden Is It?

July 5th, 2010 · No Comments · Books

Review By JESSICA ALMY As someone who believes that at the very least animals deserve rights equal to, say, corporations, I’m disturbed that our legal system treats them as property. So when I read Mary Ann Hoberman’s Whose Garden Is It?, I was delighted to see that she tackled a complex issue like ownership in […]

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