The Thingity-Jig

by Kathleen Doherty (Author) Kristyna Litten (Illustrator)

Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade

This jovial frolic through the city and woods celebrates ingenuity and teems with whimsical wordplay--a delightful read for any STEAM storytime.

Under the light of a silvery moon, Bear wanders into people town and discovers a springy thing, a bouncy thing--a sit-on-it, jump-on-it thing! This Thingity-Jig is too heavy to carry home by himself, so Bear runs back to the woods and asks for help. Too bad for Bear, his friends are sleepy and shoo him away.

So Bear invents a Rolly-Rumpity to wheel the Thingity-Jig home, but then it all gets stuck in the mud! How will Bear tackle this bump in the road? With a Lifty-Uppity, of course

!Reading specialist and former educator Kathy Doherty perfectly blends inventive upcycling and STEAM elements with a delightful story in this wonderfully charismatic picture book. Illustrator Kristyna Litten brings the world to life with incredible settings and empathetic characters.  Teacher's guide and activities available!

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Kirkus Reviews

Starred Review
Doherty's joyous, inventive, action-packed language begs to be shouted out loud. The moonlit night sparkles in town and city as Litten's fanciful illustrations fill in the details of the tale and showcase Bear's inventiveness. Little readers might want to create their own Thingity-Jigs. A delightful, rollicking, joyous romp

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Kathleen Doherty
Kathleen Doherty is a Reading Specialist and holds an Ed.S. Degree in Curriculum and Instruction. She's written standardized test items for Pearson Inc. and her love of learning has led her to graduate from four different universities. A former teacher of elementary school for over 30 years, Kathy's work has appeared in numerous magazines. She lives in Indiana.

Kristyna Litten studied Illustration at the Edinburg College of Art. Having been raised with illustrative and animated influences from Eastern Europe, Kristyna often references Josef Sasek and Marc Boutayant in her work. Exercising a sophisticated color palette, she prefers to draw quickly to give an energetic line to her work and his heavily reliant on a good old pencil and a great big cup of tea to keep her going. She lives in a beautiful village in England.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781561459599
Lexile Measure
500
Guided Reading Level
M
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Publication date
April 20, 2021
Series
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BISAC categories
JUV039060 - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Friendship
JUV002030 - Juvenile Fiction | Animals | Bears
JUV051000 - Juvenile Fiction | Imagination & Play
Library of Congress categories
Forest animals
Inventions
Play
Animal fiction

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