Tumbleweed Stew (Green Light Readers Level 2) [Paperback]

Susan Stevens Crummel (Author, Illustrator)

Book Description

Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up | Series: Green Light Readers Level 2

Jack Rabbit says it's a great day to make tumbleweed stew, but who wants to eat that? With a bit of ingenuity, Jack soon has everyone from Armadillo to Vulture adding something to his delectable stew.

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

K-Gr 3-Jack Rabbit, the hungry Texas cousin of Janet Stevens's Hare in Tops and Bottoms (Harcourt, 1995), is up to something as he hops onto a ranch to find lunch. The trickster tale emerges as he tells Armadillo, the owner, that he would like to make her some Tumbleweed Stew. He adds tumbleweed to some boiling water and other animals, including Buzzard, Deer, and Skunk, contribute different vegetables, and soon a delicious stew is bubbling in the big pot. Full and happy, the creatures all doze off, and when Jack Rabbit awakens with a growling tummy, he thinks of another tricky recipe to share. The funny text flows well and is full of repetition as the list of vegetables grows, and the soft-edged illustrations give personality to the characters and offer plenty of visual clues. Jack Rabbit wears a cowboy-and-cactus print vest while Buzzard's is denim. Armadillo wears a red bandanna and even Deer sports a bolo tie. A fine choice for beginning readers.-Melanie S. Wible, Kanoheda Elementary, Lawrenceville, GA

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From Booklist

Gr. 1-2. A trickster rabbit talks a group of animals into making a communal meal in this delightfully illustrated Green Light Reader. Jack Rabbit wakes up hungry for tumbleweed stew. At the first ranch he sees, he starts boiling water in a pot and adds a tumbleweed. "It needs more," he says, and gradually the animals each bring a new ingredient until the stew is finished, they feast, and Rabbit wakes up hungry again, ready for "cactus pie." With its cumulative list of ingredients, the well-paced story offers plenty of opportunities for hidden vocabulary drills: Stevens' personality-filled animals expand the story's humor and whimsy: children will get a kick out of the animals' western wear--a skunk in a pink cowboy hat; a buzzard in a denim vest, for example--and will appreciate the images of the rich stew made from the dusty desert. Gillian Engberg
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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 6 and up
  
• Paperback: 24 pages
• Publisher: Sandpiper; 1st Green Light Readers Ed edition (August 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0439366453
• ISBN-13: 978-0152026288
• ASIN: 0152026282
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 6.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,585,788 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Susan Stevens Crummel had some firsthand experience before writing "Ten-Gallon Bart". As a high school teacher in Texas, one of her extra-curricular duties was sponsoring the rodeo club. Little did she know she'd have to ride a steer in the sponsor's rodeo. "As I clung to the beast's gigantic horns, I decided that the following year, I'd go back to coaching the math team!" she said. Susan also likes to tell stories about her great-great uncle Harvey Doyle, an expert rider and trick roper in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in the early 1900s. Besides collaborating with Dorothy Donohue on three other picture books, she has collaborated with her sister, Janet Stevens, on "The Great Fuzz Frenzy", "And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon", "Cook-a-Doodle-Doo!", and "Jackalope".