Puddle jumper: How a toy is made [Unknown Binding]

Ann Morris (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 2000

Sarah's father doesn't go to an office or factory to work. He designs and builds wooden toys in a workshop near their home, and sometimes he lets Sarah help. Ann Morris's simple text and Ken Heyman's warm and wonderful photos take young children through the process of inventing a new toy--from design to assembly to the best part of all, trying it out.

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Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

1-2-- Sarah and her father work as a team to produce the Puddle Jumper, a wooden rocking airplane. This contemplative book takes readers through the creation process from the first bright idea to the finished product. The making of the toy is the focus, but the father/daughter partnership shows the role children can play. Similar to Ali Mitgutsch's From Idea to Toy (Carolrhoda, 1988), this book has full-color photographs that lend a touch of reality, doc umenting step-by-step a complicated procedure. The somewhat dark pictures create a mood of a dim, cool, wood-scented workshop. --Joyce Richards, Prairie Grove Elementary School, AR
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Product Details

• Unknown Binding: 24 pages
• Publisher: Scott Foresman (2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0673610993
• ISBN-13: 978-0673610997
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,477,325 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Ann Morris's many books include Families, Bread Bread Bread, Hats Hats Hats, On the Go, and Loving. She lives in New York City. As a children's book writer, Ann Morris has been able to successfully integrate her varied experiences in teaching young children, travel, writing, and editing. Having grown up in the polyglot public schools of New York City, where each child's ethnic heritage was revealed by his name or by the contents of the lunch box from home filled with sausages, egg rolls, matzos, or pizza, she developed a strong Interest In cultures other than her own. "I'm a gypsy by nature," she says. "I always have my suitcase packed."
She and photographer Ken Heyman once traveled across the United States to document the lives often different families. Both she and the teacher's pupils liked the snake charmer/teacher who taught class in a circus trailer with her favorite boa around her neck. Although Ms. Morris has never tried this stunt he herself, she has taught children in public and private schools in New York City, and adults at Bank Street College, Columbia Teachers College, New York University, and Queens College of the City University of New York. More recently she has been teaching writing for children at The New School.
Ann Morris left teaching to become editorial director of Scholastic's early childhood department. Now she devotes her professional time to writing and all her other time to people watching, music in any and all Forms, cat care, cooking and eating, and travel. All of these experiences, she says, provide material for her books.
In Israel Ms. Morris was caught up in the enchantment of the place as well as the conflicts that are a consequence of its history. One of her books, When Will They Stop Fighting? (Atheneum), reflects her concern about children who have become the victims of these conflicts.