Six Sticks (Step into Reading) [Library Binding]

Molly Coxe (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 3 and up | Series: Step into Reading

What can you make with six sticks? How about six mops? Or four skis and two poles? Or two hats? This simple concept book stars a pair of creative mice who discover lots of funny and wonderful things to create with six Popsicle sticks! Colorful collage art and easy-to-read text will help kids begin to grasp the idea of sets.

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

PreSchool-Grade 1-Two young mice use six Popsicle sticks to create many different things including "2 swings," "3 pairs of skis," and "1 mouse clubhouse!" The appealing collage illustrations are simple but effective and subtly show readers the advantages of working together. Children will be intrigued by the variety of the stick creations and will have fun predicting what the next one might be. This beginning reader could also be used effectively as a model for writing a math story or for designing a small-group math-challenge activity.
Janie Schomberg, Leal Elementary School, Urbana, IL
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From the Inside Flap

What can you make with six sticks? How about six mops? Or four skis and two poles? Or two hats? This simple concept book stars a pair of creative mice who discover lots of funny and wonderful things to create with six Popsicle sticks! Colorful collage art and easy-to-read text will help kids begin to grasp the idea of sets.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 3 and up
  
• Library Binding: 32 pages
• Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers (July 27, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0679986898
• ISBN-13: 978-0679986898
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 6.2 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,410,833 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

BraveMouse Books is a mouse-sized company with a big brave mission: to publish great adventure stories for young children. Every book will have a robust plot, endearing young heroes, not-too-evil bad guys, a satisfying (and surprising!) conclusion, and of course, beautiful illustrations. Our first book, Benjamin and Bumper to the Rescue, won the 2011 Nautilus Award for Best Picture Book of the Year. The Nautilus Awards recognize "Books and Audio Books that promote spiritual growth, conscious living & positive social change, while at the same time they stimulate the "imagination" and offer the reader "new possibilities" for a better life and a better world."

To learn more about BraveMouse books, check out the website: www.bravemousebooks.com

Favorite quote of author, Molly Coxe:

"At all times, be mindful and vigilant that you do not cling to your perceptions of the universe, and the beings within it, as real and solid. Train yourself to see everything as the play of unreal apparitions." P.R.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Coxe is a master!, June 8, 2000

By 

Frank Murphy - See all my reviews

This review is from: 6 Sticks (Step Into Reading + Math: (Early Hardcover)) (Library Binding)

Molly Coxe has written the perfect beginning reader for counting! The art work is magnificent. An extension activity for this book is to have children make their own artwork using popsicle sticks! The Step into Reading PLUS MATHS are the best thing going! (See other Step into Reading Plus Math books! )

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I second the motion., April 30, 2005

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Robertson Thomas (Hapcheon, Gyeongnam, South Korea) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 6 Sticks (Step Into Reading + Math: (Early Hardcover)) (Library Binding)

As Mr. Murphy says, the book is good for introducing math concepts. We see several ways that the number 6 can be subdivided.

As Mr. Murphy says, the illustrations are spendid.

Just one gripe, though: the bindery work leaves much to be desired.

4.0 out of 5 stars Cute book, good for beginning readers., December 28, 2011

By 

Michelle Muhlbach (ARLINGTON, TX, US) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Six Sticks (Step into Reading, Early, paper)

My son loves this book! Great for beginning readers, and inspires creativity, as well as forgiveness when your friend makes you mad. In the book, two mice friends (a boy and a girl), have 6 popsicle sticks. They proceed to play with them, and show what they can do with six sticks.... like make 3 pairs of ski's, two swings, and much more. Towards the end, one mouse gets mad at the other, and so they each have 3 sticks and they each use them to make a tee-pee (one for a mad mouse and one for a sad mouse). At the end, they make up and use their sticks to make one mouse clubhouse. Very cute book.