Product Description

Older brother thinks he knows the rules to hide-and-seek. But little sister has her own idea of how to play. And the resulting confusion, compounded by a lively dog, is hilarious. Now available for the first time in full-color and reformatted as a My First I Can Read Book, Crosby Bonsall's appealing story and simple text will delight emergent readers.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #396658 in Books
• Published on: 1999-04-30
• Released on: 1999-03-21
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 32 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780064442534
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Review
"An excellent addition to the very early reading shelves." -- -- Starred Review/School Library Journal

About the Author
Crosby Bonsall's many beloved I Can Read Books include The Day I Had to Play with My Sister; And I Mean It, Stanley; The Case of the Hungry Stranger; and the My First I Can Read Book Mine's the Best.

Customer Reviews

Rather confusing book for young readers.
I ordered this book along with two other My First I Can Read Books for my daughter who is in first grade and is really struggling with reading. On the whole I was disappointed with it.

The words were pretty easy for her to read, but I had to do a lot of explaining for her to understand what was going on. The way the book is written, the child needs to look at the pictures to figure out what is going on. In fact, a few pages are completely without words. The problem is the pictures do not clearly show what is going on. I had to explain "See, the little girl doesn't know what to do. She is just standing there instead of looking for her brother. Oh, see, her brother is hiding in the pile of leaves. Oh, look, she is going to sit on the pile of leaves."

Another thing I did not like about the book was the ending, when the little sister doesn't play hide and seek the right way, her brother says he is not going to play with her anymore. That is not something I want to teach my daughter, who has two younger siblings.

The book is okay, but there are other My First I Can Read books that are better. Check out the Biscuit books. My daughter loves those, and they are really helping her with her reading.

Children with Younger Siblings Will Love This!
This book is about a little boy who is trying to teach his younger sister how to play hide-and-go-seek without much success. It is written in short sentences and easy vocabulary, making it ideal for the youngest of readers. Any child with younger siblings will identify with this little guy and his exasperation at having to play with his little sister!

Where have you been all my life?
I was browsing in a bookstore connected with an English language school when I saw this title. For years I'd been hoping to find even one book which, oh please dear God just this once, end with something other than the same old, same old, tired old lecture that put-upon older siblings have no option but to eternally suck it up and keep swallowing their mounting exasperation.

More out of habit than hope I picked the book up and read it... and I bought it on the spot. I would have given anything for a book like this when I was younger! The drawing's not the greatest and the action is sometimes unclear, but there is nothing unclear about the initially welcoming older sibling's increasing frustration.

For firstborns, I cannot recommend this book highly enough. Only too many books out there already expressly FORBID them to open their mouths to stand up for themselves whenever the source of their irritation, exasperation, (and yes, I'm here to tell you, sometimes deliberate torture) just so happens to be YOUNGER!