One Monday Morning [Paperback]

Uri Shulevitz (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 3 and up

"One Monday morning the king, the queen, and the little prince came to visit me. But i wasn't home . . . "

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

A queen and a prince come to visit a small boy one Monday morning, but as he tells readers, "I wasn't home." They return with the king on Tuesday, but "I wasn't home." Every day they check to see if the little boy is in, always with someone new in tow, until Sunday, when they come with a king, a knight, a royal guard, cook, barber, jester and a little dog. This time, the little boy is home to entertain his royal guests.
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Review

"Beautiful, easy to read fun, with an interplay between text and pictures always sought for, seldom encountered."--starred, School Library Journal

"The idea of the story is so childlike, the telling of it so effortless, and the book executed with such distinction that it belongs naturally among the true picture books we seem always to have had . . . A book no child should miss."--The Horn Book

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 3 and up
  
• Paperback: 48 pages
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) (August 12, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0374456488
• ISBN-13: 978-0374456481
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7.2 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #375,951 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The artwork has been underrated, March 21, 2000

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This review is from: ONE MONDAY MORNING (Reading Rainbow) (Paperback)

I think the artwork in this book has been underrated, perhaps because only a few colors were used in printing. It's clever: the run-down New York City neighborhood is drawn in meticulous detail. I use it to show Inuit students what a city looks like! By contrast, the royal entourage is cartoon-style, not realistic. Not only does the royal family's entourage grow larger with each repetition of the pattern, but the characters themselves grow larger, until at the end of the book they have to hunch over to fit into the boy's tenement apartment. At the very end, the characters turn into playing cards (only in the art, not in the text) and the royal barber (who, we somehow suspect, is a self-portrait of the author) becomes a doll that has been sitting half-seen on the window sill all along. Lots to look at in this book.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great First Reader. Please re-publish, January 7, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: ONE MONDAY MORNING (Reading Rainbow) (Paperback)

This book is a great first time reader. It is better than Dick and Jane for several reasons. This book adds people and words as the story unfolds. It is an easy story to follow. It adds words that are pretty common to today's early readers. I am a literacy volunteer and I use this book for my older reading students.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Little boy gets interesting visitor., January 9, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: ONE MONDAY MORNING (Reading Rainbow) (Paperback)

One Monday Morning is the story of a little prince who each day of the week brings more friends to visit. However the little boy he's coming to visit isn't home. The story is much like the 12 days of christmas with the addition of interesting characters each day of the week.