![]() ![]() New character Owl is delightfully uncertain and easy for kids to relate to. The enthusiastic Rocket and his patient teacher are solid characters, their personalities revealed through their expressions and postures. I love the idea that a new word can be a present. There's also a bit where Rocket is trying to figure out who lives in a nest in a big pine tree, and he receives the word "OWL" as a present. When he opened a new book, it smelled like a place he'd never been to, like a friend he'd never met." ![]() ![]() "Rocket even liked the way books smelled. And through his story, he even makes a new friend. Coming up with material for a story turns out to be more difficult than he had expected. He decides that he would like to do something with all of those great words. He has a host of little pieces of paper with words on them. Rocket, having learned to read in the first book, is still adding words to his collection. A simple story, sure, but a satisfying one, too. ![]() Although an ode to words and stories (reading them and writing them), it never strays from being first of all a story. Like the first book (which I somehow never reviewed), it is adorable. Rocket Writes a Story, by Tad Hills, is the sequel to How Rocket Learned to Read. ![]()
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