![]() ![]() During independent reading time, this series makes for great practice of skills like making predictions, making connections, identifying story structure, and retelling.An author of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for children and young adults as well as an author and author/illustrator of picture books for children, Cynthia Rylant is recognized as a gifted writer who has contributed memorably to several genres of juvenile literature. The illustrations are absolutely mesmerizing! Also, I love the heartwarming relationship portrayed between an old man and his cat… so cute! As a teacher, I would give a quick book talk or read aloud the first book in this series to students to introduce and hopefully hook them on this new series. Like Henry and Mudge, it is perfect for beginning fluent readers in either 1st or 2nd grade. Putter & Tabby has easily become my favorite easy-reader series for young children. She couldn’t control her paws from batting the fish bowl. Putter loved goldfish, but the fish made Tabby’s whiskers tingle and tail twitch. Arthur Howard’s pencil, watercolor, and gouache illustrations are absolutely stunning and add to the humor of the story. Putter and his fine cat Tabby bring home some fish. Putter & Tabby Feed the Fish is a laugh-out-loud funny book about what happens with Mr. He wasn't sure he could get all those birds under one bucket.Īnd Howard's illustrations of Tabby are so expressive, so amusing! I would definitely recommend this series! They watched birds instead of fish while they ate. In the next scene, we see them watching birds out the window: Putter puts a bucket over the goldfish bowl so that Tabby can be "freed" of her addiction, her fascination. ![]() Even though this is the tenth book in the series, readers continue to learn new things about these two. Tabby steals the show in this early chapter book. We'll watch the fish tomorrow." Tabby wanted to go to bed. Putter said, "Come on, Tabby, let's go to bed. Putter decide to buy three goldfish for his home?! Will Tabby be able to take all the excitement?! Maybe. Tabby was old, but she still loved excitement. ![]() Tabby loved it because it made her whiskers tingle and her tail twitch. Putter loved it because he had owned goldfish as a boy. Putter and his fine cat, Tabby, loved going to the fish store. Characteristically, she portrays introspective, compassionate young people who live in rural settings or in small towns and who tend to be set apart from their peers.įirst sentence: Mr. Rylant is perhaps most well known as a novelist. A prolific author who often bases her works on her own background, especially on her childhood in the West Virginia mountains, she is the creator of contemporary novels and historical fiction for young adults, middle-grade fiction and fantasy, lyrical prose poems, beginning readers, collections of short stories, volumes of poetry and verse, books of prayers and blessings, two autobiographies, and a biography of three well-known children's writers several volumes of the author's fiction and picture books are published in series, including the popular "Henry and Mudge" easy readers about a small boy and his very large dog. An author of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for children and young adults as well as an author and author/illustrator of picture books for children, Cynthia Rylant is recognized as a gifted writer who has contributed memorably to several genres of juvenile literature. ![]()
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