In My New Yellow Shirt

By Eileen Spinelli

Book Overview

A playful journey into a child's imagination. "In my new yellow shirt I am a duck quacking,splashing through a big puddle of sun. Watch out! Now I'm a taxi-- HONK! HONK! --zooming down the street." When a little boy gets a plain yellow shirt for his birthday, his friend Sam thinks it's a very ordinary gift. But the birthday boy has other ideas. Before long, he has transformed himself into many wonderful yellow things. In this cheerful story, Eileen Spinelli's energetic text and Hideko Takahashi's vibrant pictures prove that, with imagination, the sky's the limit.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805062424
• ISBN13: 9780805062427
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 10.4" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 2 to 5 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Kindergarten

Customer Reviews

my son loves this book

We got this book for my son when he was only 16 months old, so he obviously couldn't follow the story line yet. He still can't, but this has been one of his favourite books from the beginning. It must be the style of the pictures as well as the everyday situations they depict (having breakfast, going to bed, playing in the tub in the yard, etc.) - kids can really relate. And as for the adults, we can also appreciate the sense of humour the book has - such as the license place "GRNMA" for a car driven by an elderly lady (supposedly Sam's grandmother). And once your child reaches the age when he/she an follow the plot, I'm sure he/she will enjoy the book even more. My son has been taking this book off the shelf almost every day since he got it. I highly recommend it.

Best Author

All 4 of my grandchildren loved the book, Eileen really relates to children and she is the best.

What a cute find!

We discovered this book almost by accident, and a happy accident it has been. The title turned up as if by magic as a suggestion when my wife was searching for some totally unrelated titles...the eerie part being that our son's favorite color is yellow! Obviously he loves the book. It does a great job showing a child what a wonderful thing an imagination is; it's great for stoking imaginative play. I heartily recommend it, even for kids who prefer blue, or green, or red, or orange...

My 18 month old LOVES this book

This book is wonderful. It uses words my daughter is now beginning to learn and understand, and reinforces it with pictures. I highly recommend it!

Mellow

When the author's son, Sean, was about four, he got a new yellow shirt and thought that he was a banana. In this picture book, the author thinks of that incident and tells the story of a boy and his friend, Sam. The birthday boy gets a new yellow shirt from his Aunt Betty. He puts it on and he is a splashing duck, a roaring golden lion, a zooming taxi, a daffodil, a fish, and a lazy bug. He is many other things set in a variety of scenes, even a trumpet in a parade, and a thumping banana in a kitchen. As night falls, the shirt must be taken off, but it becomes something else that will illuminate the night.