I Can Fly
by Ruth Krauss
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A little girl at play can fly like a bird, moo like a cow, and squirm like a worm.Tags
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Adorable enough that I'm glad it was re-released as a 'real' (not Little Golden) book for a new generation of kidlets. I'm just not sure that kids would take the time to / be inspired to imagine themselves as various critters, based on having this read to them. It's sort of long, and the pattern is irregular.
I prefer, for acting out, [b:We're Going on a Bear Hunt|201126|We're Going on a Bear Hunt|Michael Rosen|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1388274854s/201126.jpg|1974395]. That's more memorizable, funny and fun to play.
I prefer, for acting out, [b:We're Going on a Bear Hunt|201126|We're Going on a Bear Hunt|Michael Rosen|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1388274854s/201126.jpg|1974395]. That's more memorizable, funny and fun to play.
A cute book. Reminds us that we can be anything we feel like being at any time. =)
Absolutely charming book illustrating joyous imaginary play.
I can fly is about a little girl who starts of saying she can fly like a bird. The next books goes on to show all of these different a animals and the moves/sounds that they make. The could be a good book for Kindergarten or 1st grade while they are learning their animals.
This is a great book! It has a litle girl with a big imagination. She can be anything she wants to be. She is everything in the book.
My favorite sayings are "My house is like a mouse's," and "Howl Howl Howl i'm an old screeched owl."
a fun little girl is trying to fly like the birds. she pretends to be all the animals that can fly
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Ruth Krauss was born on July 25, 1901 in Baltimore, Maryland. She attended the Peabody Institute of Music. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Parsons School of Fine and Applied Art and studied anthropology at Columbia University. In 1941, she married David Johnson Leisk, who wrote and illustrated children's books as Crockett Johnson. show more They occasionally worked together. Her first book, A Good Man and His Good Wife, was published in 1944. She was credited as being one of the first authors to use minimal text, concentrating on precise language and working closely with an illustrator. She wrote more than 30 children's books during her lifetime including The Carrot Seed, I Can Fly, and A Hole Is to Dig: A First Book of First Definitions. She received the Caldecott Medal for The Happy Day in 1950 and A Very Special House in 1954. She also wrote verse plays and poetry for adults. She died on July 10, 1993 at the age of 91. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- I Can Fly
- Original title
- I Can Fly
- Original publication date
- 1950
- Disambiguation notice
- Note: One of the "Little Golden Books" editions is an abridged edition. Other editions are not.
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- Children's Books, Picture Books
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- 813.5408 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999 Anthologies of American fiction of the late 20th century
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- PZ8.3 .K865 — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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