Great Groundhogs! (Holiday House Reader) [School & Library Binding]

Karen Gray Ruelle (Author)

Book Description

Series: Holiday House Reader

It’s almost Groundhog Day, and Emily is itching for spring to come early this year. She is searching all over to find a groundhog but can’t find one anywhere, not in her closet or under her bed. Perhaps she can lure one into her yard with cookies, marshmallows, and flowers! Harry and Emily celebrate Groundhog Day in their own unique way in this seasonal Holiday House Reader.

Holiday House Readers are created for children who are just beginning to read. They feature large type, simple vocabulary, and short, manageable chapters. Level 2 books, of which Great Groundhogs! is one, are intended for children in first and second grades.

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

PreSchool-Grade 2–Puzzled by Harry's teacher's reference to Groundhog Day, two kittens embark on a research project. When neither books nor the magazines and newspapers in the recycling pile can furnish them with information on the animal, Harry and Emily turn to the computer. They try to entice a groundhog into their backyard with grapes, marshmallows, and cookies. The next day, they find that many other creatures enjoyed the snacks, and eventually a groundhog does turn up–to eat the floral table decoration. The story is pedestrian and the color cartoon illustrations are static. Arnold Lobel's stories about Frog and Toad (HarperCollins), Elissa Haden Guest's tales of Iris and Walter (Harcourt), and Else Holmelund Minarik's adventures of Little Bear and his friends (HarperCollins) are fresher and funnier easy readers.–Jane Barrer, Washington Square Village Creative Steps, New York City
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About the Author

Karen Gray Ruelle has been a librarian and journalist. She has written and illustrated ten previous Harry & Emily Adventures for new readers, the latest of which – Just in Time for New Year’s! – has been described by School Library Journal as "a fun story that beginning readers will enjoy." She lives in New York, New York.

Product Details

• School & Library Binding: 32 pages
• Publisher: Holiday House; 1 edition (September 30, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0823419304
• ISBN-13: 978-0823419302
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.4 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #544,256 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Harry and Emily's groundhog adventure, January 10, 2006

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This review is from: Great Groundhogs! (Holiday House Reader) (School & Library Binding)

Entertaining kitty siblings Harry and Emily learn about groundhogs and Groundhog Day in this colorful chapter book. Discovering that groundhogs can tell whether or not Spring is coming, the duo searches high and low for one. Eventually they learn that groundhogs live in holes in the ground -- so they dig a few in the garden to attract one. They provide an enticing picnic lunch as well: one of grapes, cookies, and marshmallows. When only birds, chipmunks, and squirrels eat the food, the two are discouraged ... until they spy an actual groundhog eating flowers from a flower pot. They notice that he casts no shadow.

Harry and Emily are hardly Mr. Putter and Tabby, but they're enjoyable characters to follow. A humorous and educational beginning chapter book about Groundhog Day.