Out and About: A First Book of Poems
by Shirley Hughes
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Rhyming text depicts the pleasures of the outdoors in all kinds of weather, through the four seasons.Tags
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This is a charming book of children’s poetry organized by season. The poetry and illustrations were developed together and depict lovely scenes of human life and childhood experiences. The pictures are colorful and full of life and fill the whole page, making this an excellent “first book of poems” and perfect gift volume.
This is a wonderful book to add to any collection, each school and home should have it as this is full of rhymes that are very lovely to hear them. This have the most beautiful illustrations, there are very pleased for children.
Age: 3 to 8
Source: Steilacoom Library
Age: 3 to 8
Source: Steilacoom Library
Book of poems about being outside in all 4 seasons. Quintessential seasonal descriptions, green flowery spring, hot summer, reddish fall, snowy winter. Would not work in San Diego where the two seasons are wet and dry. Ages 5-8
A book about different places we can go out. it is very discriptive about different places like hill, seaside, in feasts and then describes things like wet, water, sunshine. all in the form of poems.
Ages 4-6
Puyallup Library
Ages 4-6
Puyallup Library
Collection of poems that are good for young children. The colors are good for brain stimulation. Large group activity.
Age 3-6
Source: Lacey Timberland Regional Library.
Age 3-6
Source: Lacey Timberland Regional Library.
Book of poems illustrate the various seasons.
Ages 3-6 Source: Pierce County Library
Ages 3-6 Source: Pierce County Library
Two siblings take a walk together and talk about everything they are seeing.
Ages: 3-4
Source: Pierce College
Ages: 3-4
Source: Pierce College
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Author and illustrator Shirley Hughes was born near Liverpool, U. K. on July 16, 1927. She studied drawing and costume design at Liverpool School of Art and the Ruskin School of Drawing in Oxford. At first she was an illustrator of other author's works, but in 1960 she published Lucy and Tom's Day, which was the first book she wrote and show more illustrated. Since then she has written and illustrated over 50 books. She won the Kate Greenaway Medal for Dogger in 1977, the Eleanor Farjeon Award for distinguished services to children's literature in 1984, and the OBE for services to children's literature in 1998. She currently lives in London with her husband. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Genres
- Poetry, Children's Books, Picture Books
- DDC/MDS
- 821.914 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English poetry 1900- 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PZ8.3 .H8665 .O — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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- Reviews
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- Languages
- English
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- Paper
- ISBNs
- 13
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