On My Way
Author: dePaola, Tomie
ISBN: 9780698119482
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 10 Jun 2002
Pages: 80
Format: Paperback / softback
Tomie is overjoyed because his baby sister, Maureen, is finally strong enough to come home from the hospital. Over the next months, he is in a dance recital and he gets to go to the WorldP#39;s Fair. Soon, the school year is at an end. Summer is full of fun things to do, like going to the beach and celebrating the Fourth of July-but Tomie canP#39;t wait for school to start again. He hopes heP#39;ll get Miss Kiniry, the first-grade teacher he likes the best. In first grade he will finally-finally-learn to read. And maybe even get a library card of his own!Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Pquot;DePaolaP#39;s writing and recollective skills are so fresh that kids will feel like heP#39;s sitting right next to them, telling his tales in and out of school with disarming charisma and not a hint of nostalgia.Pquot; (Plt;iPgt;The Horn BookPlt;/iPgt;)Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Pquot;More please.Pquot; (Plt;iPgt;Kirkus ReviewsPlt;/iPgt;, pointer review)
ISBN: 9780698119482
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 10 Jun 2002
Pages: 80
Format: Paperback / softback
Tomie is overjoyed because his baby sister, Maureen, is finally strong enough to come home from the hospital. Over the next months, he is in a dance recital and he gets to go to the WorldP#39;s Fair. Soon, the school year is at an end. Summer is full of fun things to do, like going to the beach and celebrating the Fourth of July-but Tomie canP#39;t wait for school to start again. He hopes heP#39;ll get Miss Kiniry, the first-grade teacher he likes the best. In first grade he will finally-finally-learn to read. And maybe even get a library card of his own!Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Pquot;DePaolaP#39;s writing and recollective skills are so fresh that kids will feel like heP#39;s sitting right next to them, telling his tales in and out of school with disarming charisma and not a hint of nostalgia.Pquot; (Plt;iPgt;The Horn BookPlt;/iPgt;)Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Pquot;More please.Pquot; (Plt;iPgt;Kirkus ReviewsPlt;/iPgt;, pointer review)
