Especially useful with younger children, this colorfully illustrated book is wonderful for showing children that the sky is the limit when it comes to their imaginations. Children could build their own block patterns and make up a story that tells about it. ( )

150L,GRL E,GL 1.3,2 copies

150L,GRL E,GL 1.3,2 copies

This book had a story to it, it had small "lego" type characters and they used these "lego" type blocks to build different things such as: houses, trains, and cars. The book progresses as the characters take these blocks and change them to make different things. The illustrations in this book look to be hand drawn and colored.

A Good Book for Pre-Readers!

This little book is on my entering kindergartener's Summer Reading List and I can certainly understand why. Pat Hutchins tells, without text, the story of how a family overcomes adversity. With colorful artwork and blocks which most children have seen and played with, she demonstrates how thinking and creativity can lead to solutions.

As with most good wordless books for pre- and early readers, it offers the opportunity for children to make up stories to fit the pictures. Such skills are well associated with success in learning to read.

[See also Tomie dePaola's stories for more excellent opportunities to practice reading skills.] ( )