Sams Sneaker Search [Hardcover]

Claire O'brien (Author), Charles Fuge (Illustrator)

Book Description

Age Level: 3 and up

While searching for her missing sneaker, Sam sees some unusual sights--a sheep in her toy box, a lion under her bed, a python brushing his teeth in the bathroom, and a huge hippopotamus blowing bubbles."

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

PreSchool-Grade 2. A wacky assortment of animals is involved in this saga of a missing sneaker, but the book is not strong in either language or plot. The author launches into fantasy mode on the second page: "No sneaker under the bed, just a shaggy lion playing with the dust mice." A new animal is revealed in each place Samantha looks for her shoe. The double-page illustrations of the animals are delightful: large, bright, expressive, and humorous. Samantha herself is less skillfully drawn. The text simply speeds through a litany of creatures, describing their activities ("penguins skating on the Jell-O"). Other than trying to wrest herself or her toy penguin away from the various animals, Samantha's interaction with them is minimal. Deborah Guarino's Is Your Mama a Llama? (Scholastic, 1989) is a better structured story, and Chris Riddell's The Trouble with Elephants (HarperCollins, 1990) is one of many in which a child has a funny adventure with animals in her home. For stories of lost objects, Berniece Rabe's Where's Chimpy? (Albert Whitman, 1988) is more compelling. However, Fuge's illustrations redeem Sam's Sneaker Search enough for it to be an additional title for preschool storytimes.?Darla Remple, Worcester Public Library, MA
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 3 and up
  
• Hardcover: 32 pages
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing; 1st edition (June 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0689801696
• ISBN-13: 978-0689801693
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 8.1 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,885,388 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Missing shoe and the search to find it!, November 9, 2006

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KSL "emma-and-me" (Florida, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sams Sneaker Search (Hardcover)

This is a story about Sam getting ready for school and missing a shoe! With 15 minutes before Sam is due at school she goes through out her home looking for this lost shoe. Sam is not any child, but a child with one vivid imagination! As she searches though each room in her home she sees various animals.... but no shoe!

So not to spoil the book I won't go any further and ruin the ending. It is a cute book and my daughter also loved the pengins in the fridge skating on a bowl of jello!