More Stories Julian Tells (Stepping Stone, paper) [Paperback]

Ann Cameron (Author), Ann Strugnell (Illustrator)

Book Description

Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up | Series: A Stepping Stone Book(TM)

"Reflecting incidents true to children (making a bet with a friend, sending a message in a bottle, attempting to be brave), these stories are the sort that will make children ask for more."--School Library Journal,starred review  

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Gr 2-5 The five years that have passed since the publication of The Stories Julian Tells (Pantheon, 1981) have neither aged Julian nor diminished his charm. The black seven year old, his best friend Gloria, his younger brother and his parents are back in another five short stories that sparkle with all of the innocence and experience of childhood. The events of these storiesmaking a bet with a friend, attempting to be strong and brave, sending a message in a bottleall reflect incidents true to children. Even though the stories are brief, the characters are fully realized and exhibit a complete range of emotions. Told with Cameron's flair for understatement and illustrated with Strugnell's playful charcoal drawings, these stories are the sort that will make children ask for more. David Gale, ``School Library Journal''

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"Reflecting incidents true to children (making a bet with a friend, sending a message in a bottle, attempting to be brave), these stories are the sort that will make children ask for more."--School Library Journal,starred review  

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 5 and up
  
• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers (January 21, 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0394824547
• ISBN-13: 978-0394824543
• Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 0.3 x 7.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #280,288 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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More About the Author

Ann Cameron has worked in publishing, as a university teacher and as a camp cook on a Mayan dig in Belize where boa constrictors climbed into the thatch of the roof to hunt mice at night. Ann has written a number of books for children and those for Transworld's Corgi Yearling imprint feature a small boy called Julian: JULIAN, SECRET AGENT, JULIAN, DREAM DOCTOR AND THE JULIAN STORIES.

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29 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars From the author, March 4, 2,000, March 4, 2000

By 

Ann Cameron (Panajachel, Guatemala) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: More Stories Julian Tells (Stepping Stone, paper) (Paperback)

An excerpt from this book, about African-American characters, was used January 31, 2,000 in a state-wide Illinois third-grade reading standards test. 70,000 Illinois children got this test excerpt, in which the testers reillustrated the story without permission and changed the characters to Causcasians. I wrote the book with great care, and with the hope that many children will identify with my characters who are courageous and successful and well-liked. Over 200,000 copies of the book have been sold. I know from my fan mail that many children of all races do identify with the characters. It must have been painful for many of them to see their heroes turned white on a test--and for others who know the book, it must have been distracting at the least. One of the testers' three new illustrations shows the brothers in the story playing baseball. Eight books about the characters have been published to date (there will be a new one next year)--and in none of them do the characters play baseball. The testers developed their test questions based on a 3-page excerpt from the book; they had never even seen a copy of the entire book (thus the error in race), much less read it. It's quite possible that a child who had read the book would give different answers to the test questions based on his knowledge, and that the testers, in their ignorance, would mark it wrong. In many states, statewide tests are very serious these days--children are stigmatized for low scores, and teachers lose their jobs. But it appears that the tests are hastily and thoughtlessly constructed and penalize good readers. Parents and all of us concerned with education need to know what kind of tests children are being subjected to. [e-mail]

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I like this book, November 12, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: More Stories Julian Tells (Stepping Stone, paper) (Paperback)

I think it's a great book. So I want other people to read it. Because Julian tells lots of stories and it's lots of fun reading it.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great read!, August 14, 2009

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AT Hiker (Virginia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: More Stories Julian Tells (Stepping Stone, paper) (Paperback)

I have read this book with my second and third graders for years. We have laughed over the cat-a-log cats and the trials of Julian with his younger brother and friend, Gloria. They are such good stories, we don't want them to end. When my kindergartener grandson read the caveman tooth story, he belly laughed. The complex surprising vocabulary is pure joy! I'd love to see Ann Cameron write more stories.