Houghton Mifflin Reading: The Nation's Choice: Theme Paperbacks Grade 1.4 Theme 7 - The Puddle

by David McPhail

Book Overview

By the author/illustrator of the bestseller Edward and the Pirates What better thing to do on a rainy day than sail a toy boat in puddles? The boy in this story gets permission from his mother to do... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0618061959
• ISBN13: 9780618061952
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Age Range: 6 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 1

Customer Reviews

puddle pleaser

Lovely story with charming illustrations. Contains just the right amount of the "silly" factor to entertain, but not so much as to annoy the adult reading this story.

Good story for a wet day

This book tells the story of a small boy who goes out to play in a puddle on a rainy day. He follows his mother's instructions carefully, about not stepping in the puddle. But the animals who come to visit have no such limitations and their antics are quite entertaining.Although the story is fairly innocuous, small children who become anxious over breaking things may become uncomfortable when reading this story- -an alligator rescues the boy's boat from the puddle, and in the process cracks it with his mouth. In the final scene of the book, the boat is shown in the boy's bathtub, and several small readers lamented that the crack was still there. The book is quite short, with only about 200 words.

wonderful book

My two year old loves this book, simple concept that is well developed, one of the few books I originally took out from the library and then felt compelled to go on and buy.