What Do Wheels Do All Day?/¿Qué Hacen Las Ruedas Todo El Día? Board Book: Bilingual English-Spanish Contributor(s): Prince, April Jones (Author), Laroche, Giles (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 054799625X ISBN-13: 9780547996257 Publisher: Clarion Books OUR PRICE: $8.09 Product Type: Board Books Language: Spanish Published: April 2013 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Transportation - Cars & Trucks - Juvenile Fiction | Sports & Recreation - General - Juvenile Fiction | Concepts - Size & Shape |
Dewey: 621.811 |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5" W x 5" (0.42 lbs) 32 pages |
Themes: - Seasonal - Spring - Seasonal - Summer - Event - Spring - Event - Summer |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Wheels are busy. On banana carts, they're pushed; on dog wagons, they're pulled. On bikes they're pedaled forward; on tow trucks, towed backward Wheels work, and wheels play. / That's what WHEELS do all day The rhyming text is written in both English and Spanish in this dynamic board book, each language clearly differentiated with color. Laroche's extraordinary three-dimensional paper-relief artwork makes every colorful scenario pop, whether the wheels are spinning, whirring, racing, or rolling. |
Contributor Bio(s): Laroche, Giles: - Giles Laroche, a master of cut-paper relief sculptures, captures stories from history that can't be told with photographs. Reviewers have called his art "truly masterful," "mind-bogglingly good," and "a visual feast." He lives in Salem, MA.Prince, April Jones: - April Jones Prince is a children's book author and freelance editor. She published Twenty-one Elephants and Still Standing, a story about P. T. Barnum and the Brooklyn Bridge, with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. |