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Mattoo, Let's Play!

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Irene Luxbacher

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kidscanpress.com presents ...
	Mattoo, Let's Play! written and illustrated by Irene Luxbacher For information - including sample spreads, free downloadables and more - go to www.kidscanpress.com/Canada/product.aspx?productid=5912

Hardcover Jacket CAD $18.95 978-1-55453-424-1 Grades: PreSchool to 2 Ages: 3 to 7 Character Education caring compassion Reading Levels: Fountas & Pinnell J Grade Level 2 Reading Recovery 17 © 2010 4-color 10 x 9 32 pages	Ruby can't understand why her cat, Mattoo, never wants to play. Ruby is good-natured but is perhaps too boisterous. Will Mattoo ever want to play with Ruby? Will Ruby ever win Mattoo's affection? With striking acrylic illustrations, Mattoo, Let's Play! is a visually rich story that shows how playing carefully and gently with a pet can make all the difference. Awards 2010 Best Bets Picture Book, Ontario Library Association, winner Reviews “A nondidactic approach to playing nicely with animals.” — Publishers Weekly, January 2010 “The use of acrylic ink and collage makes for stunning illustrations, combining remarkable pen-and-ink backgrounds with colorful renderings of the children, and the depiction of Mattoo is charming. This is a great read-aloud, but independent readers will enjoy the detail in the art.” — School Library Journal, May 2010

kidscanpress.com presents ...
	Mattoo, Let's Play! written and illustrated by Irene Luxbacher For information - including sample spreads, free downloadables and more - go to www.kidscanpress.com/Canada/product.aspx?productid=5912

Hardcover Jacket CAD $18.95 978-1-55453-424-1 Grades: PreSchool to 2 Ages: 3 to 7 Character Education caring compassion Reading Levels: Fountas & Pinnell J Grade Level 2 Reading Recovery 17 © 2010 4-color 10 x 9 32 pages	Ruby can't understand why her cat, Mattoo, never wants to play. Ruby is good-natured but is perhaps too boisterous. Will Mattoo ever want to play with Ruby? Will Ruby ever win Mattoo's affection? With striking acrylic illustrations, Mattoo, Let's Play! is a visually rich story that shows how playing carefully and gently with a pet can make all the difference. Awards 2010 Best Bets Picture Book, Ontario Library Association, winner Reviews “A nondidactic approach to playing nicely with animals.” — Publishers Weekly, January 2010 “The use of acrylic ink and collage makes for stunning illustrations, combining remarkable pen-and-ink backgrounds with colorful renderings of the children, and the depiction of Mattoo is charming. This is a great read-aloud, but independent readers will enjoy the detail in the art.” — School Library Journal, May 2010

kidscanpress.com presents ...
	Mattoo, Let's Play! written and illustrated by Irene Luxbacher For information - including sample spreads, free downloadables and more - go to www.kidscanpress.com/Canada/product.aspx?productid=5912

Hardcover Jacket CAD $18.95 978-1-55453-424-1 Grades: PreSchool to 2 Ages: 3 to 7 Character Education caring compassion Reading Levels: Fountas & Pinnell J Grade Level 2 Reading Recovery 17 © 2010 4-color 10 x 9 32 pages	Ruby can't understand why her cat, Mattoo, never wants to play. Ruby is good-natured but is perhaps too boisterous. Will Mattoo ever want to play with Ruby? Will Ruby ever win Mattoo's affection? With striking acrylic illustrations, Mattoo, Let's Play! is a visually rich story that shows how playing carefully and gently with a pet can make all the difference. Awards 2010 Best Bets Picture Book, Ontario Library Association, winner Reviews “A nondidactic approach to playing nicely with animals.” — Publishers Weekly, January 2010 “The use of acrylic ink and collage makes for stunning illustrations, combining remarkable pen-and-ink backgrounds with colorful renderings of the children, and the depiction of Mattoo is charming. This is a great read-aloud, but independent readers will enjoy the detail in the art.” — School Library Journal, May 2010

written and illustrated by Irene Luxbacher

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Ruby can't understand why her cat, Mattoo, never wants to play. Ruby is good-natured but is perhaps too boisterous. Will Mattoo ever want to play with Ruby? Will Ruby ever win Mattoo's affection? With striking acrylic illustrations, Mattoo, Let's Play! is a visually rich story that shows how playing carefully and gently with a pet can make all the difference.

Curriculum Connections

Character Education
caring

compassion

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Fountas & Pinnell

Grade Level

Reading Recovery

Hardcover Jacket

978-1-55453-424-1

Reviews

“A nondidactic approach to playing nicely with animals.”: — Publishers Weekly, January 2010
“The use of acrylic ink and collage makes for stunning illustrations, combining remarkable pen-and-ink backgrounds with colorful renderings of the children, and the depiction of Mattoo is charming. This is a great read-aloud, but independent readers will enjoy the detail in the art.”: — School Library Journal, May 2010

Awards

2010: Best Bets Picture Book, Ontario Library Association, winner