A Red Wagon Year

by Laura McGee Kvasnosky, Kathi Applet, Kathi Appelt

Book Overview

The months of the year unfold in full color as six young children, two dogs, and their beloved red wagon embark on a journey that takes them through the seasons and through the year. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0152779914
• ISBN13: 9780152779917
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
• Length: 28 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.5" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 2 to 4 years
• Grade Range: Preschool and higher

Customer Reviews

A imaginative way of teaching young kids the twelve months

"A Red Wagon Year" is a simple but elegant little book that helps children learn the months of the year by showing the many imaginative ways in which a happy company of six young children, and two dogs, use a trusty red wagon. Kathi Appelt provides simple rhyming text to explain the various uses for the red wagon: "It's a table for the winter birds / A valentine express / A prairie schooner in disguise / A red-eared turtle's nest." The illustrations by Laura McGee Kvasnosky compliment the simple text nicely. One of the nice touches is that the colors never seem to make it to the edge of the black lines without making the child's mistake of going outside the lines. Notice that the border of the cover has iconic representations of each of the twelve months of the year depicted within the book. This book is perfect for young children, ages 2 to 4, giving them an imaginative way of learning the months of the year and appreciating some of the many ways a red wagon can be used (this is by no means a comprehensive examination of the subject).