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Big Words Small Stories: Smell the Daisies

Series: big words small stories

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Meet Oleander, who likes to keep busy, and her pet salamander, Sally Mander, who prefers to take it easy. As they go about their days in these five stories, they’re visited by the Sprinkle Fairy (she’s the owner of a word factory in Sicily) and her helpers, who’ve slipped a Big Word into each story. Which means, when Sally Mander is slacking off on her gardening duties, Oleander accuses her of procrastinating. And when Sally Mander loses a fight to a bird over a worm, she demands that the bird regurgitate the worm immediately. It’s all fun with words – BIG time!#This collection of quirky, bite-sized stories is part of a clever series of highly original early readers by Judith Henderson. The text is dialogue driven, broken up into small bits, and accompanied by T. L. McBeth’s small, simple and humor-filled spot illustrations, making it just right for emerging readers. These books are also terrific tools for expanding budding vocabularies, with the pronunciation and definition included for each of the five multisyllabic Big Words. Children will be trying them out in no time!

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Meet Oleander, who likes to keep busy, and her pet salamander, Sally Mander, who prefers to take it easy. As they go about their days in these five stories, they’re visited by the Sprinkle Fairy (she’s the owner of a word factory in Sicily) and her helpers, who’ve slipped a Big Word into each story. Which means, when Sally Mander is slacking off on her gardening duties, Oleander accuses her of procrastinating. And when Sally Mander loses a fight to a bird over a worm, she demands that the bird regurgitate the worm immediately. It’s all fun with words – BIG time!#This collection of quirky, bite-sized stories is part of a clever series of highly original early readers by Judith Henderson. The text is dialogue driven, broken up into small bits, and accompanied by T. L. McBeth’s small, simple and humor-filled spot illustrations, making it just right for emerging readers. These books are also terrific tools for expanding budding vocabularies, with the pronunciation and definition included for each of the five multisyllabic Big Words. Children will be trying them out in no time!

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Hardcover, eBook

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Curriculum

Early reading

Reading Levels

    lexile level
  • 490

  • guided reading
  • K

  • guided reading grade level
  • 2

AWARDS & REVIEWS

Reviews

"A sure win for word lovers that’s also bound to create some new fans of words."

Kirkus Reviews, 15/07/2019

"... a delight for early readers."

Booklist, starred review, 01/10/2019

"... simple, vibrant, and amusing."

CM Magazine, 08/11/2019
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