Skippyjon Jones and the Treasure Hunt [Hardcover]

Judy Schachner (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up | Series: Skippyjon Jones

Read, flip, and find with Skippyjon Jones!

Skippyjon Jones fans will go loco over this brandnew matching game format! Skippyjon Jones has found a treasure map, and you can help find the treasure by flipping over the correct bilingual tiles in the pop-up matching game included with the book. This book is fun for parents and kids to read aloud and play together, and will help teach little ones tricks of memorization. Book includes a popup match game with 12 bilingual spinning tiles!

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 3 and up
  
• Hardcover: 16 pages
• Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap; Pop edition (May 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0448448173
• ISBN-13: 978-0448448176
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 9.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #68,705 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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More About the Author

Judith Byron Schachner has been illustrating and writing children's books since 1992 and has given numerous presentations in schools and libraries. Her workshops are designed to be warm and personal with a special regard for the less than stellar student.
"Kids love to review my rotten report cards and laugh out loud at a slide show involving 4 cats and a funeral. Teachers love the 'Seed Box' filled to the brim with a magical collection of 'Junk' to inspire the writer in all of us. Everyone loves to watch 'Don Juan Skippito Bumblito the Great Sword Fighter' come to life with pencil and paper. By the end of the day we all believe that the stories in our own lives are worth writing about."
Judith Byron Schachner grew up outside of Boston in the 1950's. Her early years were not easy: "Growing up we didn't have much money. My mother was very ill, and to make matters worse, I was extremely shy. All my teachers complained that 'Judith needs to speak up in class, Judith needs to improve in arithmetic, and Judith needs to finish her work on time.' But no one complained about my artwork. On paper I drew myself a world where mothers were healthy and teachers were kind. My life was perfection in pencil."
Judith graduated from the Massachusetts College of Art in 1973 with a BFA in illustration and went straight into the "greeting card factories, which included a stint at Hallmark. For five years I designed cute cards, sad cards, funny cards, and wedding cards. I was not having fun; in fact I never wanted to pick up a paintbrush again."
Married life changed many things for Judith. One clear advantage for her was that "for the first time in many years I could step off the 9 to 5 treadmill and devote all my energy to creating a portfolio of children's book art. That was until two little baby girls were born. Then motherhood became my favorite new job. Over the years I read hundreds of books to my daughters. Inspired by the art and words I was moved once again to finish my portfolio and take it on the road to New York. Around the same time I met Donna Jo Napoli who convinced Dutton Children's Books to let me illustrate her novel, The Prince of the Pond," published in 1992.
In 1995 Judith wrote and illustrated her first picture book, Willy and May, and has turned out a number of projects since then. "The wonderful thing about my job is that one day I can be writing about history, as I did in Mr. Emerson's Cook. The next day I'm drawing a wacky old woman for I Know An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie. Or I can bring to life a beloved pet cat in my book The Grannyman. I live in a constant state of 3rd grade bliss - making up stories and drawing pictures. Isn't that what we all did as children?"
Several years ago the great author Lloyd Alexander stood in Judith's back yard admiring her daughters' Viking ship (as Judith puts it, that's another story). Working with Lloyd Alexander has been a dream come true for Judith: "Never in my wildest fantasies did I ever think that my art would inhabit his world of words."

Customer Reviews

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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars wow- sorely disappointed, May 9, 2008

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A. Butler (US) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Skippyjon Jones and the Treasure Hunt (Hardcover)

My girls LOVE the skippyjon books, so much so that they wrote in their calendars when this book was to be released! Unfortunately they were as disappointed as I am. To keep the game "popped up" the book needs to be super flat. And the story line, well, it just isn't there. Each page reflects various older skippyjon stories, like skippyjon visits a shack at the edge of the world or visits king tuts sarcophagus. Sure, kids like repetition, but this is just a comment on older stories, not really any story at all. I wouldn't dare even call this a "book" there is no story line, and even if there was, it would be interrupted at each page turn since the children are looking for matching tiles (think thick cardboard with a plastic skewer through it). some tiles are easy to turn, others are a bit "sticky" almost, being too tight on the plastic post. I'm not impressed with this "book" at all.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Too Babyish, May 28, 2008

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Snoopy (Bay Area, CA USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Skippyjon Jones and the Treasure Hunt (Hardcover)

My entire family loves the Skippyjon Jones books, but the Treasure Hunt was very disappointing. It was too babyish, even for my seven year old, and we felt cheated that we didn't get a real story. The book should be billed as an activity book for very young children.

20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not up to Skippyjon Standards, May 5, 2008

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Julie A. Jacobs "maguire708" (Baltimore) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Skippyjon Jones and the Treasure Hunt (Hardcover)

My children (6, 4, 1) were disappointed with this game because they expected a book and more of the (usually great) Skippyjon dialog. This is still entertaining for the youngest kids to use in the car, but it really is not much fun to read or "play" and I expect it will hit the giveaway box before long. The kids do love that they can recognize aspects from various Skippyjon adventures, but in the long run this isn't worth it.