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ABC X 3: English, Espanol, Francais |
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Marthe Jocelyn |
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PreSchool-Grade 3–This alphabet book has an interesting twist: each letter is presented with text in three languages. What a terrific way to show the similarities among English, Spanish, and French, especially when the words are exactly the same in each case for jaguar, kiwi, quetzal, radio, and zigzag. Not only does it help children (and ESL students) make language connections, but they will also feel mastery of the recognizable words. In a few instances, Jocelyn has included alphabet combinations that are specific to Spanish, which is confusing. A page for ch presents the word chaqueta. Another page illustrates ll with lluvia. Unfortunately, the text is not labeled with the language represented, which might make these single examples particularly puzzling. But these distractions do not significantly... |
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Hannah's Collections |
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Marthe Jocelyn |
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PreSchool-Grade 2-In this bright, bold picture book, Hannah's teacher has announced that students may bring a collection to share with the class on Friday. This presents a dilemma for Hannah, who keeps buttons, Popsicle sticks, shells, leaves, feathers, barrettes, dolls, leather purses, and more. Which should she bring? Her clever solution is to create a sculpture with various items from her many collections. Colorful collage illustrations incorporate cloth, paper, and found objects against patterned backgrounds. This story will appeal to children who love to collect, and it makes a good introduction to show-and-tell. Math classrooms will want to add it to their shelves for its treatment of the skills collecting teaches including counting and sorting.Meghan R. Malone, Turner Free Library, Randolph, MA... |
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The Invisible Day |
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Marthe Jocelyn |
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0613230000 |
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From School Library Journal
Grade 3-5?Fifth-grader Billie Stoner longs for more freedom. Her days and nights are carefully monitored by her mother, and shared with her younger sister since New York City is a place of "countless dangers." While on a family excursion to Central Park, Billie discovers a mysterious cosmetics bag that she quietly secrets away. At school the next day, she samples one of the powders in it and becomes invisible. Her ability to move through her school and throughout the city unseen proves to be both humorous and challenging. Not only must she outsmart her teacher, but also her mother, who is the school librarian. With the help of her friend Hubert, Billie travels uptown to the home of an eccentric teenage scientist, Jody, the owner of the cosmetics bag and the only one who can help Billie regain visibility. The... |
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A Day With Nellie |
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Marthe Jocelyn |
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0887766005 |
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PreSchool-Spending time with Nellie is a simple affair. She gets up, dresses, eats, plays, naps, has a picnic, plays some more, takes a bath, eats supper, and goes to bed. The straightforward text subtly introduces numbers, colors, the alphabet, and other concepts, with some questions thrown in to make the story interactive. Jocelyn's charming, intricate collages magically turn cloth, buttons, and other materials into lively, colorful, multidimensional scenes. Children will enjoy the pictures and relate to this day in the life of a typical preschooler.Be Astengo, Alachua County Library, Gainesville, FLCopyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
PreS-Gr. 1. Jocelyn, who treated children to an ingenious story wrapped around collections in Hannah's... |
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Earthly Astonishments |
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Marthe Jocelyn |
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0613773004 |
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From Publishers Weekly
Jocelyn (The Invisible Day) ventures into historical fiction for this often vivid but incompletely realized novel set in 1884 New York City. Twelve-year-old Josephine measures only 28U" tall, but she has outsize adventures. For the past five years, she has slaved away at Miss McLaren's academy for girls, an establishment that recalls Miss Minchin's from A Little Princess for its cruelty and hypocrisy. Exploited past endurance, Josephine runs away. Immediately she meets one R.J. Walters, the owner of The Museum of Earthly Astonishments, which displays "curiosities," human and otherwise. Billed as Little Jo-Jo, the world's smallest girl, Josephine becomes a star attraction among the Coney Island amusement-seekers, and she also becomes friends with another of Mr. Walters's "astonishments," a 14-year-old albino boy.... |
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The Foundlings |
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Marthe Jocelyn |
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Grade 5 Up–Inspired by a desire to learn about her grandfather's childhood in an English orphanage, Jocelyn unearthed the history of London's Foundling Hospital for the Maintenance and Education of Exposed and Deserted Young Children. Founded in 1739 by retired shipbuilder Thomas Coram, the institution took in babies whose desperate mothers might otherwise have abandoned them and trained them to be useful citizens who would serve in the British military or work as domestic servants. Among the hospital's famous benefactors were the artist William Hogarth and the composer George Frideric Handel, who raised enormous amounts of money by performing the Messiah there year after year. Because of the excellent education they received, many of the children went on to have musical careers. In its more than 210... |
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Mayfly |
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Marthe Jocelyn |
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0887766765 |
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PreSchool-Grade 3-The joys of revisiting a special place are delightfully explored in this simple story. It's the end of the school year and a mother, three children, and their dog prepare to leave their apartment in a busy city for the family cottage. "Good-bye to streets and stores and buses. Good-bye to so many windows. Hello to summer." Packing the same things, stopping at the same restaurant for lunch, opening up the cabin, and unpacking the car are all a part of the ritual. The family revels in familiar outdoor activities like swimming, rocking in a hammock, rowing in the Mayfly, picking blueberries, climbing trees, cooking out, etc. As autumn approaches, it's time to "Sit for a last while on the dock. Listen to the crickets, hear the water lapping.- Say good-bye to summer" and then head back home for... |
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One Some Many |
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Marthe Jocelyn |
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0887766757 |
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PreSchool-K–This counting book presents the concepts of "some," "many," "few," and "more" through a rhyming text and stunning, boldly colored paper cuts. A listing of the numbers from 1 to 10 is interrupted by phrases such as "two/a few/a few is more than two/a few is three/or four." Slaughter has recycled some of the images he created for 1 2 3 (Tundra, 2003), and the pictures here are once again deceptively simple yet elegant. However, this effort has a more playful mood as the artist visually explains the ideas expressed in the text. For example, on consecutive pages, "one" is depicted as a single pear, "some" by a group of three pears, "many" by a pear tree full of fruit, and "hardly any" by the remains of an eaten pear. (Older students may want to study this title to learn some of the tenets of... |
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Over Under |
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Marthe Jocelyn |
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Book Description
Marthe Jocelyn and Tom Slaughter explore opposites in this gorgeous introduction to modern art for small readers. Cut paper images introduce children to color, form, and design as they explore tall giraffes and short mice, squares and circles, light day and dark night.
An art book as well as a sound learning tool, Over Under is stunningly simple and simply stunning.
About the Author
Marthe Jocelyn is an award-winning author and illustrator who worked for many years as a toy designer before turning her hand to writing. Her picture book, Hannah’s Collections, was shortlisted for a Governor General’s Literary Award for illustration. She has written five novels for older readers and five picture books.
Tom Slaughter’s art... |
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Earthly Astonishments |
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Marthe Jocelyn |
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0887766285 |
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From Publishers Weekly
Jocelyn (The Invisible Day) ventures into historical fiction for this often vivid but incompletely realized novel set in 1884 New York City. Twelve-year-old Josephine measures only 28U" tall, but she has outsize adventures. For the past five years, she has slaved away at Miss McLaren's academy for girls, an establishment that recalls Miss Minchin's from A Little Princess for its cruelty and hypocrisy. Exploited past endurance, Josephine runs away. Immediately she meets one R.J. Walters, the owner of The Museum of Earthly Astonishments, which displays "curiosities," human and otherwise. Billed as Little Jo-Jo, the world's smallest girl, Josephine becomes a star attraction among the Coney Island amusement-seekers, and she also becomes friends with another of Mr. Walters's "astonishments," a 14-year-old albino boy.... |
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Secrets |
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Selected by Marthe Jocelyn |
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Grade 5-8–Many secrets are revealed in this collection of 12 unforgettable short stories. In Gillian Chans Dream Girls, Ella, 10, is happy to be everything Sonia is not–a tomboy who loves playing outdoors, getting dirty, and having fun. Her mother always compares her to her friends daughter, but when Sonia comes for a visit, she is well-mannered with the adults but mean and spiteful to Ella. In Jocelyns How It Happened in Peach Hill, deceit runs in the family. To drum up business for Mama, a pseudo-clairvoyant, her daughter hangs around town, appearing to be mentally challenged while gathering gossip. But when Mama goes too far with a psychic performance on a rich widower, the lies take a different direction. In Teresa Totens Fathers Day, Katie fakes her drunk and abusive fathers death to avoid... |
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Hannah's Collections |
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Marthe Jocelyn |
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0887766900 |
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PreSchool-Grade 2-In this bright, bold picture book, Hannah's teacher has announced that students may bring a collection to share with the class on Friday. This presents a dilemma for Hannah, who keeps buttons, Popsicle sticks, shells, leaves, feathers, barrettes, dolls, leather purses, and more. Which should she bring? Her clever solution is to create a sculpture with various items from her many collections. Colorful collage illustrations incorporate cloth, paper, and found objects against patterned backgrounds. This story will appeal to children who love to collect, and it makes a good introduction to show-and-tell. Math classrooms will want to add it to their shelves for its treatment of the skills collecting teaches including counting and sorting.Meghan R. Malone, Turner Free Library, Randolph, MA... |
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Hannah and the Seven Dresses |
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Marthe Jocelyn |
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0887767494 |
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Jocelyn's (The Invisible Day) slim story serves primarily as a vehicle to display her simple yet cheerful cloth collage art in a medley of palettes and patterns. Hannah, with her closet full of dresses handmade by her mother, breaks out in a sweat when she has to decide which to wear: "Her face got hot. She shivered all over. Her knees went jiggly and her toes curled under." She decides to assign a specific day of the week to each dress, then models them, one at a time; Jocelyn coordinates wall and floor coverings with each outfit. But readers never see where she goes or what she does in her dresses. At the climax, Hannah's shivers and jiggly knees return when she must choose a dress for her birthday party. When putting all the dresses on at once doesn't work, she finally decides to don pants instead. "And from... |
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Mable Riley: A Reliable Record of Humdrum, Peril, and Romance |
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Marthe Jocelyn |
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Grade 5-8--Set in Canada in 1901, this gentle tale relates the adventures of a 14-year-old who accompanies her older sister to the small town where she has been hired as a teacher. Mable discovers that very little happens in Sellerton, other than her frequent spats with her sister. Most of her days are spent assisting Viola at school and doing chores on the farm where they are boarding. Her only release is found in her journal entries or in spinning her fantasies into stories that she includes in letters to a friend back home. Wanting to have someone with whom to share her feelings and desires, Mable turns to a town outcast, an eccentric woman who leads a secret group of suffragettes. As she learns more about the injustices carried out in this small rural town, she ignores her sister's warnings and puts... |
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