Birthday presents
Record details
- ISBN: 0531070263
- ISBN: 0531083055 (lib. bdg.)
- ISBN: 0531057054
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Physical Description:
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 23 x 27 cm.
print - Publisher: New York : Orchard Books, c1987.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "A Richard Jackson book"--Half t.p. |
Summary, etc.: | An almost six-year-old girl listens as her mother and father describe her six previous birthday celebrations. |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Birthdays Fiction Parent and child Fiction |
Available copies
- 11 of 11 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Rowayton Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 11 total copies.
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Rowayton Library | J RYL (Text) | 33625000234190 | Juvenile Red Dot | Available | - |
Publishers Weekly Review
Birthday Presents
Publishers Weekly
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On the first five birthdays of one small girl, five different cakes are bakedstar cake, clown, train, robot and dinosaur cakes, respectively. There are also demands for presents, and questions as to who and how many guests should attend. The language and concepts used on these occasions reflect the world of the one-to-five-year-old setexpressions like ``counting little piggies,'' ``sucking fingers,'' ``spitting up,'' ``chocolate faces'' (the result of enjoying cake until it's smeared from here to there), naps, crabbiness and stomachaches. Before her sixth birthday, the small girl has learned to offer her parents gifts on their birthdays. A celebration of love, this book is as delicious as a ``chocolate face'' and just as funny. Stevenson's baby/toddler/little girl is joyful and charismatic, with puffed, rosy cheeks, acrobatic postures that only babies perform, thoroughly engrossed in various activities like playing, baking and drawing. Ages 4-6. (August) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
School Library Journal Review
Birthday Presents
School Library Journal
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PreS-Gr 2 In this joyous celebration of family love, a little girl is told about each of her birthdays from the moment of her birth until she is six. Stevenson's illustrations begin with an uncluttered view of mother, father, and newborn baby. From then on, Rylant's understated text and Stevenson's double-page spreads show the three engaging in birthday activities. Both text and illustrations vividly capture the tears, trials, joys, and jubilations of childhoodstar cakes, clown cakes, and robot cakes; flu, stomachaches, and frustrations. Stevenson's vibrant illustrations depict a loving home filled with the clutter of an active child. Many of the illustrations are framed like snapshots in a family album, and the candid shots perfectly capture the expressions of children at parties who don't want to share, faces smeared with chocolate, and tantrums. Family history and memories combine in this book that's a work of love, a true presentand one that should cause children to clammer for stories of their past birthdays. Trev Jones, ``School Library Journal'' (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
Birthday Presents
Kirkus Reviews
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Seven happy birthdays in the life of one small girl, from the real first one--the day she was born--to the times during her sixth year When she gives presents in return. Presented as a family album with reminiscences addressed by the parents to the child, each year's mood is a loving celebration of the nuclear family of three, with parents baking a succession of fanciful cakes (star, clown, train, robot) and smiling through the inevitable mishaps--at one, ""you spit up""; at two, ""you were crabby. . .because you needed a nap""; at four, the new toy telephone had to be hidden because all the guests wanted it at once. And every year ""We told you we loved you."" Then, ""Before you turned six, you gave. . .us for our birthdays flowers. . .You helped bake our birthday cakes. . .You told us you loved us""--thus the loving, giving family produces a loving, giving child. (True, but not always so simple.) Stevenson's ebullient pictures are as full of smiles, flowers, and hugs as the text, a bit sketchy and diffuse, but lively and appropriate. A book both parents and children will enjoy--and profit from--this would be fine for a picture-book hour or to share near a birthday. A good companion to Flack's Ask Mr. Bear, or to ""The End"" in Milne's Now We Are Six. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.