Maryann Kovalski

“Take me out to the ball game” is a book based on the popular and still used song that is based around baseball. There are many things to the book regardless of it being about a song that is only a couple lines long. It is worth reading and sharing it with your students. The first thing you notice is that it doesn’t start right out with the song. It begins with the story of two siblings that like baseball and get taken to a game. The art style is beautifully done and truly tells the show more story through the use of an old song that doesn’t have a whole lot of story to it. The biggest thing I appreciated is that the story told through the art work is all inclusive. Typically baseball is a boy’s thing but the story revolves around two girls who love baseball and is taken to a game by their grandmother. show less

This is an adventurous book. It tells of a trip to New York with a grandmother and her two granddaughters. It is a Christmas time book and it teaches the song jingle bells. This book makes me think of the trips my grandmother and I used to take.

Adding hand and arm gestures to each part of the song, engages the kids in the book, especially if they aren't able to sing it yet. This is a great book to get kids up and moving. A very catchy song that they will be able to sing anywhere and relate to real life objects they see. This book is good for children age 2-6.

The old song is expanded with a plausible story line and cute illustrations (not quite realistic, but not cartoons).