Bruno & Lulu's Playground Adventures

Illustrated by Kirstie Edmunds
Ebook
On sale Apr 10, 2014 | 80 Pages | 9780698150461

For newly independent reader fans of ELEPHANT & PIGGIE, here’s a book featuring two best friends who love to have fun at the playground. Bruno likes straight-forward adventure while Lulu uses her over-the-top imagination to play. In two short, funny episodes, readers discover why Bruno and Lulu's different personalities help them become even better friends. With simple vocabulary and sentence structure, and told solely through speech bubbles, these adventures are just right for new readers.
Patricia Lakin lives in New York City. View titles by Patricia Lakin
"A playful, comic romp of a book for new readers." - Kirkus Reviews

"Speech bubbles of different colors delineate the dialogue, making it useful for those who’d like to put on a mini-play. Expect to see more adventures about this duo for emergent readers." - Booklist

"Lakin writes skillfully for this audience, injecting humor and clever teachable moments into her accessible text...Besides its obvious use as a first-class beginning reader, this might also make an entertaining readers theater performance piece." - Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

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For newly independent reader fans of ELEPHANT & PIGGIE, here’s a book featuring two best friends who love to have fun at the playground. Bruno likes straight-forward adventure while Lulu uses her over-the-top imagination to play. In two short, funny episodes, readers discover why Bruno and Lulu's different personalities help them become even better friends. With simple vocabulary and sentence structure, and told solely through speech bubbles, these adventures are just right for new readers.

Author

Patricia Lakin lives in New York City. View titles by Patricia Lakin

Praise

"A playful, comic romp of a book for new readers." - Kirkus Reviews

"Speech bubbles of different colors delineate the dialogue, making it useful for those who’d like to put on a mini-play. Expect to see more adventures about this duo for emergent readers." - Booklist

"Lakin writes skillfully for this audience, injecting humor and clever teachable moments into her accessible text...Besides its obvious use as a first-class beginning reader, this might also make an entertaining readers theater performance piece." - Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

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