Extra! Extra!: Fairy-Tale News from Hidden Forest [Hardcover]

Alma Flor Ada (Author), Leslie Tryon (Illustrator)

Book Description

When the residents of Hidden Forest wake up and open their morning papers, they are in for a surprise.

An enormous beanstalk has mysteriously sprouted outside of Jack Blake's house, and Jack is nowhere to be found. Meanwhile, Pinocchio and Half-Chicken have set out on adventures of their own, and Tortoise and Hare are off to the races. Will they all find their happy endings? Hidden Forest News has got the scoops.

Written and laid out in newspaper format, this installment in the enchanting Hidden Forest series has received a new twist from Alma Flor Ada and Leslie Tryon. All of your favorite fairy-tale characters from Dear Peter Rabbit; Yours Truly, Goldilocks; and With Love, Little Red Hen are back, but this time they are hitting the presses and making headlines!

Editorial Reviews

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"Teachers of fairy-tale units will love the subtle teaching of newspaper content and layout. A must for every fairy-tale collection." - Kirkus Reviews

"Through articles, opinion pieces, and even sports and international pages, several issues of the Hidden Forest News provide the scoop on Jack and the Beanstalk and report on an Italian toymaker who has gone missing while searching for his puppet/son and a race between a hare and a tortoise." - From School Library Journal

"As with the pre­vi­ous books, the fun is in fol­low­ing famil­iar char­ac­ters as they inter­act with one another and play out their well-known roles." - Horn Book

"Extra! Extra! By Alma Flor Ada (Atheneum, ages five to eight) gives all the scoops on fairy tale news as pre­sented in the news­pa­per." - Nugget

"Extra! Extra! Read all about it. Lots of inter­est­ing sto­ries in these news­pa­pers!" - Booktalks

From the Author

ub­lish­ing a book is always a long process, but some­times it can be a VERY long process. That was the case of my lat­est book: Extra! Extra! Fairy-Tale News from Hid­den For­est. Due to a series of mishaps, it took 9 long years to go from a man­u­script to a book. But, now rejoic­ing in the great art of Leslie Tryon, it was worth the wait. This is a book I have got­ten to like and love more each day...because it was born out of my love for news­pa­per -grand­daugh­ter of two news­pa­per men that I am- and because I believe that while fun and enter­tain­ment it will give chil­dren an oppor­tu­nity to see two sides of an argu­ment, and also to learn to read crit­i­cally. When a giant beanstalk appears in Hid­den For­est the town gets divided between those who feel that any­thing dif­fer­ent is a men­ace that should be elim­i­nated, and want to chop down the beanstalk imme­di­ately, and those who pro­pose that there may be rich­ness in diversity...

You can read Leslie Tryon's reflec­tions about the cre­ation of the Hid­den For­est series in the chap­ter she wrote for Alma Flor Ada and You, vol­ume II pub­lished by Libraries Unlim­ited in the series The Author and You.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 32 pages
• Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers (July 10, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 068982582X
• ISBN-13: 978-0689825828
• Product Dimensions: 10.4 x 9.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #905,413 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Alma Flor Ada, Pro­fes­sor Emerita at the Uni­ver­sity of San Fran­cisco, has devoted her life to advo­cacy for peace by pro­mot­ing a ped­a­gogy ori­ented to per­sonal real­iza­tion and social jus­tice. A for­mer Rad­cliffe Scholar at Har­vard Uni­ver­sity and Ful­bright Research Scholar she is an inter­na­tion­ally re-known speaker and the author of numer­ous children's books of poetry, nar­ra­tive, folk­lore and non fic­tion. Her books have received pres­ti­gious awards; among many: Christo­pher Medal (The Gold Coin), Pura Bel­pré Medal (Under the Royal Palms), Once Upon a World (Gath­er­ing the Sun), Par­ents' Choice Honor (Dear Peter Rab­bit), NCSS and CBC Notable Book (My Name is María Isabel). She is also the author of a book of mem­oirs, Vivir en dos idiomas, two nov­els for adults, En clave de sol and A pesar del amor, and sev­eral pro­fes­sional books for edu­ca­tors, includ­ing A Mag­i­cal Encounter: Latino Children's Lit­er­a­ture in the Class­room, as well as a wealth of edu­ca­tional mate­ri­als. Her work, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with F. Isabel Cam­poy in pro­mot­ing author­ship in stu­dents, teach­ers, and par­ents is the con­tent of their book Authors in the Class­room: A Trans­for­ma­tive Edu­ca­tion Process. Alma Flor Ada has been awarded the Amer­i­can Edu­ca­tion Research Asso­ci­a­tion [AERA] His­panic Issues Award for Research in Ele­men­tary, Sec­ondary and Post­sec­ondary Edu­ca­tion and the Cal­i­for­nia Asso­ci­a­tion for Bilin­gual Edu­ca­tion [CABE] Life Long Award.

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This review is from: Extra! Extra!: Fairy-Tale News from Hidden Forest (Hardcover)

This imaginative, humorous book takes the form of a newspaper reporting on the happenings of common fairy tales. It is also a great "mentor text" - one that teachers can use to stimulate imagination and teach various formats of writing.