Yo, Jo!

By Rachel Isadora

Book Overview

While Jomar and his brother, Franklin, are on their stoop waiting for Grandpa, friends and neighbors come by--whizzing on skates, showing off their new treads, or bouncing a ball. Whether it's W... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0152057838
• ISBN13: 9780152057831
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 4 to 7 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 2

Customer Reviews

Real Images for Everyone

This is a great book for children. There are not only super images but it inspires a discussion about our neighborhood and who we interact with during the day. I love the illustrations and all that is going on on the street. I think many kids will identify with this modern, happening book. The use of language is fun and kids will know what's going on as they live in a world where this "slang" is used on the streets, in music and in a friendly way amongst themselves. I hope teachers and school librarians will use this book in all sorts of ways. Kids can try their hand at collage work too! Thank you, Maurice Le Blanc

Great trek through "da hood"

Beautiful images, matched with contemporary slang (or, at least, contemporary for the time being), this is an engaging book for the young reader, exploring the goings-on in an inner-city neighborhood and the verbal exchange between young children. There is a little bit of the generation gap when the young protagonist greets his grandfather but that, in turn, is touching. All children's books should be as engrossing!

yo!

Jo is an African American preschool aged male. As he meets various people in his neighborhood they all address him in a different manner. Some of those greetings are Yo! And Whasssup! All of this slang is understood by his friends but when he uses it on his grandpa Jo has to explain it to him.