Some of These Are Snails

by Carter Higgins (Author)

Reading Level: K − 1st Grade

Press Here meets Eric Carle in a concept book that makes familiar ideas exciting and surprising.

From the creative mind behind Circle Under Berry comes this deceptively simple concept book that explores sorting, classification, and patterns as it teases the brain in unusual ways. With an elegant and simple approach, this thought-provoking book shows young readers that even the most familiar things can be seen from infinite perspectives.

As with the best classic children's books, you read it once, read it ten times--and see something new every time.

MULTIPLE WAYS TO READ: The author has provided creative and helpful suggestions for different ways in which to read this book for varying reading levels and age ranges, making it truly versatile.

PACKED LEARNING VALUE: The unusual approach to colors, shapes, and animals intelligently introduces young readers to patterns, classification, and problem solving. The imaginative language, rich with rhythmic phrasing and playfulness, begs to be read aloud.

WIDE APPEAL FOR SCHOOL AND LIBRARY USE: Carter Higgins presents engaging learning with a variety of concepts. With its clear read-aloud qualities, this is ideal for teachers and librarians who organize reading events in their classrooms and communities.

UNIQUE DESIGN: The art style for this book, with playful nods to Eric Carle and Hervé Tullet, stands out from the pack in ways that will resonate with children as well as adults. It sits beautifully on any shelf-- from classroom to home libraries.

TALENTED AUTHOR: Carter Higgins has many successful titles across multiple age groups, including Circle Under Berry, Everything You Need for a Treehouse, This is Not a Valentine, Bikes for Sale, Big and Small and In-Between, and Audrey L and Audrey W. Circle Under Berry [star]​ 

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A whimsical romp.

Publishers Weekly

Foregrounding brightly painted paper collage elements trimmed into crisp geometric shapes and placed on white backgrounds à la Eric Carle, this polished follow-up to Circle Under Berry again plays with visual images by challenging readers to classify them in various ways. Higgins composes a square blue owl with big googly eyes; the resulting shape might be categorized as blue, or an animal, or a square. Throughout, thumping, chantable lines ("big bigger biggest/ owl square purple") explore sameness and variation, comparatives and quantifiers. A spread studded with various shapes asks, "Can you sort by color?// Can you sort by size?" Another spread features circle and square animals and shapes of sundry hues, asking "Can you sort by shape or/ find the animals with eyes?" And yet another juxtaposes striped tigers and spotted ladybugs: "Who's stripiest?/ Who's spottiest?" Alongside lines that veer into the whimsical realm of nonsense rhyme ("What is one?/ What is some?/ Where is all and/ where is none?"), largely accessible concept-based images and text promise wide read-and-respond appeal. Ages 2-4. Agent: Rubin Pfeffer, Rubin Pfeffer Content. (May)

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Carter Higgins
Carter Higgins is the author of many books for kids. Circle Under Berry and Some of These Are Snails are the first that she has both written and illustrated. She is also an Emmy-winning visual effects and motion graphics artist and spent a decade as an elementary school librarian. She lives in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781797220185
Lexile Measure
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Guided Reading Level
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Publisher
Chronicle Books
Publication date
May 20, 2023
Series
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BISAC categories
JNF013120 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Concepts | Words (See Also Headings Under Language Arts)
Library of Congress categories
Picture books
Colors
Color
Shapes

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