Ella's Games

by David Bedford

Book Overview

Ella wants to play with her three brothers in the honeysuckle pot, but they tell her she is too small and too scared to play with them--and what's more, she can't climb. So Ella makes up some of her... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764155830
• ISBN13: 9780764155833
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: B.E.S. Publishing
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.8" x 10.5"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Rejoice in Ella's independence & self-sufficiency

Ella is a tiny mouse with a very big imagination. Every time she asks her older brothers to let her play with them, they refuse. "You'd be scared" or "You're too small," "You can't even climb," say Joe, Jack and Jim. So Ella has no choice by play alone and so she makes the best of it by making up all sorts of games. She finds a cat whisker and pretends she's tamed a wild rainbow cat. She spies a dandelion and imagines she's tickling an elephant with it until he sneezes. She picks up a stone and pretends it's the sore tooth she pulls from a dragon's mouth. Soon, her brothers realize that Ella 's not too scared, too small or too unable to do anything, and that she plays the best games of all. Soon they're all playing her newest game - Captain Ella and her brave pirate crew - and all's well with the family that 's learned to play together. Anyone who's ever felt left out will rejoice in Ella's independence, self-sufficiency, and ultimate victory in just doing things her own way.