Nan Gregory
Auteur de How Smudge Came
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Œuvres de Nan Gregory
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Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1944-09-21
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA (birth)
Canada - Lieu de naissance
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Études
- University of British Columbia
- Professions
- storyteller
children's book author
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Critiques
a book about cindy wanting to keep her little puppy. her family says that she can't keep the puppy so they take it away. cindy goes to work and it turns out that they adopted the puppy for cindy to keep at work.
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Excellent. Serious, but still enjoyable. And very effective. Every child who reads this will be more compassionate to people
w/ disabilities and to stray animals, and will understand something about the value of animal therapy, the need to allow pets into care centers. I teared up.
w/ disabilities and to stray animals, and will understand something about the value of animal therapy, the need to allow pets into care centers. I teared up.
In this realistic fiction, a little girl uses her imagination to show what she would do to tell her dad how much she hated waiting for him after kindergarten. It starts out with her telling the reader her favorite parts about school, then her least favorite part: pick up. She doesn't want to wait anymore, so she dreams up a world where she could tell her dad to wait for her on the moon, then she would do fun things without him, and he would have to wait and wait. Then when she came to get him, he would never be late again to pick her up from school because he knew how she felt. So when the father finally comes to get his daughter, he acts like it was not a big deal. The girl tells him how scared she was, and she lifts him up and puts her on his shoulders, and carries her home, just like in her imagination.… (plus d'informations)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 5
- Membres
- 497
- Popularité
- #49,748
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 19
- ISBN
- 15
- Langues
- 2
I have no criticism of this lovely book (paintings are marvellous, too), but I was sorry to predict the gran's death as soon as she entered the stage. Are old people only for dying? Asking for a friend.