Backpacks! (Freckleface Strawberry Series)

by Julianne Moore, LeUyen Pham (Illustrator)

Overview

Academy Award–winning actress and New York Times bestselling author Julianne Moore brings us more adventures from Freckleface Strawberry! Freckleface and her best friend, Windy Pants Patrick, each have something secret in their backpacks: sticky, gooey gum and a squished, messy donut. When it comes time to pull their homework from their backpacks to hand in to the teacher, suddenly their snack choices seem like a really bad idea.
 
With predictable sentence patterns, simple words, frequent repetition, and bright, colorful illustrations, this is a new Freckleface Strawberry book that young readers can read all by themselves!

"Moore offers another delightful tale of her red-headed heroine, Freckleface Strawberry."—School Library Journal

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780375973673
Publisher:	Random House Children's Books
Publication date:	06/23/2015
Series:	Step into Reading Book Series: A Step 2 Book
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.30(d)
Age Range:	4 - 6 Years

About the Author

JULIANNE MOORE is an Academy Award–winning actress and the author of the New York Times bestselling Freckleface Strawberry series and My Mom Is a Foreigner, But Not to Me, illustrated by Meilo So. She lives in New York City with her family. 

LeUYEN PHAM is the prolific illustrator of many books for children, including the New York Times bestselling Freckleface Strawberry series and Grace for President by Kelly DiPucchio. Her own works include The Twelve Days of Christmas, All the Things I Love About You, and Big Sister, Little Sister. She lives with her husband and two sons in San Francisco.

Editorial Reviews

"Moore offers another delightful tale of her red-headed heroine, Freckleface Strawberry."—School Library Journal

From the Publisher

2015-05-12
Two students learn to own up to their mistakes—and not to put gum or doughnuts in their backpacks—in actor Moore's new early-reader series. Freckleface Strawberry loves bugs, and her backpack has bugs on it. Inside, she has pencils, homework, and gum. Similarly, Windy Pants Patrick (readers don't find out the reason for the name) loves dogs, and his backpack contains pencils, homework, and a doughnut. Their parents (mom and dad for Freckleface, two moms for Patrick) don't know the kids have added snacks to their bags. The next day at school, when it's time to hand in their homework, the two learn why it's such a bad idea. The teacher praises their maps, thinking they've added mountains, but after school, they own up to the truth. While Moore uses short sentences, repetition, and relatively easy vocabulary (aside from her characters' names), those are not the only ingredients for a successful early reader. Readers also want a compelling story and interesting, three-dimensional characters, both of which are seriously lacking here. Pham's illustrations are serviceable and feature people with brightly colored hair and skin that lacks color—they are all literally white, save a single brown girl with black hair. Though the series continues, readers are not likely to want to meet Freckleface Strawberry and Windy Pants Patrick again. (Early reader. 4-7)

Kirkus Reviews