Review by Booklist Review
The fifth entry in the You Read to Me, I'll Read to You series repeats the earlier books' winning formula: text in two columns and two colors, set off to clearly delineate how to break up the stories to be shared by two readers out loud. This time, fables are featured, some commonly known ( The Hare and the Tortoise ) and others less familiar ( The Peacock and the Crane ). All are retold simply and engagingly and are illustrated with lively spot illustrations. Best for children who are already comfortable reading out loud, this would work as well with two young readers as it would with a child and an adult.--Foote, Diane Copyright 2010 Booklist
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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review
The team behind the collaborative reading series turns their attention to Aesop's fables. Two readers can recite alternating passages differentiated by color, with the closing morals to be read in unison. Emberley's pencil and watercolor spot illustrations bring fresh energy to the classic tales as well as a softening tone: the Hare and the Tortoise race on bicycles (the Hare wears spandex), and the golden-egg laying goose has a button-up chest, ensuring that the farmer doesn't have to use his knife. The jaunty rhymes and theatrical element of adopting a persona should spark enthusiasm from reluctant readers. Ages 3-6. (Nov.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
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Review by School Library Journal Review
Gr 1-3-In this series installment, Aesop's fables are offered up in a rhyming call-and-response format. Text fonts are in different colors to highlight the parts for two readers and turn the stories into interactive experiences. These simplified versions of the familiar tales are told with gentle humor, and Emberley's pencil-and-watercolor illustrations bring personality and life to the animal characters. The fox in a three-piece suit is particularly charming. As each story ends with a moral (in magenta) to be read aloud in unison, the book also offers a way for children to build reading comprehension. This collection is a theatrical take on Aesop's stories and a solid pick for most picture-book collections.-Sarah Townsend, Norfolk Public Library, VA (c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Review by Horn Book Review
This reliable series gets a refreshing variation, with its signature phrase ('you read to me! / I'll read to you!') replaced by pithy -- and catchy -- rhyming morals. 'The North Wind and the Sun,' for example, closes with 'Blow and bluster do not pay. / Gentleness will win the day.' The thirteen fables collected here are mostly familiar, and their traditional structure ('The x and the y') makes them a canny choice for Hoberman's color-coded poems for two voices. Children's poet laureate Hoberman is really the master of unforced rhyme ('I'm a tortoise. / I'm a hare. / You're a slowpoke. / I don't care'), and Emberley's pencil-and-watercolor illustrations are as consistently spry as the poems. ROGER SUTTON (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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