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A review by mjagears
Escargot by Dashka Slater
5.0
My children have now had me read this book thrice and if I don't hide it, I bet I'll be reading it again. To get 5 stars from me, the voice needs to be immediate and distinct that it makes you read it in character. And this one does, thankfully I knew the little French that is in there, but that could be a stumbling block if you want to read before hand to know if you have the pronunciation right if you know no French.
This book is the character talking directly to the children and so enticingly so that the children keep talking back, at least the 4 year old does, but the 6 and 11 year old were totally game to talk back to the snail too, and so I had to start ad-libbing responses because the 4 year old especially, though the others did occasionally, kept asking the snail really good questions that I just couldn't ignore. I'm usually a "non-fun out loud reader" that I often say "shhh, just listen to the story" but this one is so fun I was totally willing to make up story in the snail's voice on-the-spot for entertaining purposes.
Definitely one that went on my purchase list. I plan to read it to my small pre-k group because this is too fun to send back to the library until I do so. :)
This book is the character talking directly to the children and so enticingly so that the children keep talking back, at least the 4 year old does, but the 6 and 11 year old were totally game to talk back to the snail too, and so I had to start ad-libbing responses because the 4 year old especially, though the others did occasionally, kept asking the snail really good questions that I just couldn't ignore. I'm usually a "non-fun out loud reader" that I often say "shhh, just listen to the story" but this one is so fun I was totally willing to make up story in the snail's voice on-the-spot for entertaining purposes.
Definitely one that went on my purchase list. I plan to read it to my small pre-k group because this is too fun to send back to the library until I do so. :)