Red Hat! Green Hat! (Road to Reading) [Hardcover]

Louise Gikow (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 4 and up | Series: Road to Reading

Leona has a new hat. ItÍs red on one side and green on the other. And Leona causes all sorts of controversy when she steps out wearing her hat. Is it a red hat? Or a green hat? Things get a little out of control before everyone sees the other side.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 4 and up
  
• Hardcover: 32 pages
• Publisher: Golden Books (August 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0307165043
• ISBN-13: 978-0307165046
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 6.6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,405,311 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Perfect Book for the Earliest Readers, October 8, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Red Hat! Green Hat! (Road to Reading) (Hardcover)

This delightful book contains only six words, which repeat over and over, so even non-readers will be able to "read" it back to you after only a couple of hearings. The story -- based on an episode from the wonderful new PBS show, Between the Lions -- is great fun, and Joe Mathieu's clever illustrations -- as always -- are amusing for both kids AND adults.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally an Easy Reader, July 3, 2001

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"lpk226" (Maryland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Red Hat! Green Hat! (Road to Reading) (Hardcover)

My four year old son finally has a book that he feels confidant enough to read to any person that he might come across on the street. He is so proud that he can read the book, and is now able to correctly read these words in other books as well. It is so nice to have a first reader that is truly a first reader.

4.0 out of 5 stars Not a novelization of the episode from the TV series, March 19, 2003

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RAMChYLD "geekboy" (Klang, Selangor, Malaysia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Red Hat! Green Hat! (Road to Reading) (Hardcover)

Okay, I give this book 4 stars because it's a joy to read when you're in a hurry to get other things done, mainly because the book only has an average of 4 words a page, and if I ignore the illustrations (Not easy - read on to find out why) I can finish the book in within one minute. Also, I got this book cheap but in near mint condition at a second-hand books store, so I'll go easy on it... Oh, yeah - the four-words-a-page-average also helps out if you somehow got yourself into a bet with a friend that requires you to read a whole book in a minute.

But the best thing about the book is it's illustrations. It's wonderfully done, and the puppets that we see on the show are well drawn (yes, this one has illustrations of the puppets and not photographs of the puppets). The illustrations are bright and are accurate enough so that you can tell which's a illustration of which puppet. Mathieu has done another great job at illustrating this one.

The only thing to remember when you're getting the book (and this being my only major gripe of the book) is that you're _not_ getting a novelization of the episode on TV. The differences, unlike those of Marc Brown's D.W. books, are major. Never mind that the plot is about the same - in the TV show, Leona did not go into Gawain's world and cause the knights and spectators to clash among themsleves, nor did she wonder into a fairy tale neighbourhood and cause the fairy tale characters to clash among themselves either. And Dr. Nitwhite (whom I, like many others, are fond of calling him Dr. Nit-wit) wasn't even in that episode, as far as I can remember, yet he still makes an appearance in the book.

In a nutshell: Nice book for toddlers or to have as backup in case of those dreaded I-can-read-a-whole-book-in-a-minute bets, but not for those who want a novelization of the episode.