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Children's Fiction Beginner

Python Play

And Other Recipes for Fun

by (author) Robert Heidbreder

illustrated by Karen Patkau

Publisher
Fitzhenry and Whiteside
Initial publish date
Oct 1999
Category
Beginner, Nursery Rhymes
Recommended Age
8 to 9
Recommended Grade
3 to 4
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780773732131
    Publish Date
    Oct 1999
    List Price
    $5.95

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Tantalizing poems that touch on a myriad of play themes - from Leapfrog to Hide and Seek Children will gobble them up to chant while playing their favourite games

About the authors

Robert Heidbreder was born in Illinois but now lives in British Columbia. He has enchanted children with his joyful poems and rhymes for more than two decades. A former elementary school teacher (and winner of the Prime Minister's Award for Teaching Excellence), he believes that children's love of silly and absurd combinations of words makes them natural poets. His books include Eenie Meenie Manitoba, Don't Eat Spiders, I Wished for a Unicorn, Drumheller Dinosaur Dance, Python Play, See Saw Saskatchewan, Crocodiles Say, A Sea-Wishing Day, Lickety-Split, Crocodiles Play, Shake-Awakes, Noisy Poems for a Busy Day, Black and Bittern Was Night and Song for a Summer Night.

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KAREN PATKAU has been writing and illustrating picture books, with a focus on nature and non-fiction, for more than thirty years. She won the Ezra Jack Keats Memorial Medal for her first book, Don’t Eat Spiders by Robert Heidbreder, and since then her titles have appeared on lists including Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s Books, Children’s Literature Roundtables of Canada Information Book Award finalists, Green Book Festival Award finalists, Ontario Library Association Best Bets and White Ravens selections. Karen has also illustrated Forest: A See to Learn Book. She lives in Toronto.

 

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