Author: -Janet StevensTitle: -Tops and Bottoms
Illustrator: -Janet Stevens
Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books
Year: -1995
Format: Softcover
Genre: - Caldecott
Reading Level: - Beginning Reader
Interest Level: - Preschool, Primary, Elementary School
Topics: -Caldecott, Pictures
Summary:Bear has lots of money and lots of land and he's lazy. Hare has nothing but a hungry family and he's smart. Hare is sure there's a way to share Bear's wealth, so he and Mrs. Hare cook up a plan. Then Hare hops on down the road to Bear's place and proposes that Bear donate land, Hare would handle the labor and they split the crop in half. All Bear has to do is choose the half he wants, tops or bottoms. Sleepy Bear takes tops but finds once the harvest is in that he;s been tricked by cleaver Hare. This is a very interesting book. You open the book from top to bottom which adds to the book. it is a very cleaver book that all children will love.
Illustrator: -Janet Stevens
Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books
Year: -1995
Format: Softcover
Genre: - Caldecott
Reading Level: - Beginning Reader
Interest Level: - Preschool, Primary, Elementary School
Topics: -Caldecott, Pictures
Summary:Bear has lots of money and lots of land and he's lazy. Hare has nothing but a hungry family and he's smart. Hare is sure there's a way to share Bear's wealth, so he and Mrs. Hare cook up a plan. Then Hare hops on down the road to Bear's place and proposes that Bear donate land, Hare would handle the labor and they split the crop in half. All Bear has to do is choose the half he wants, tops or bottoms. Sleepy Bear takes tops but finds once the harvest is in that he;s been tricked by cleaver Hare. This is a very interesting book. You open the book from top to bottom which adds to the book. it is a very cleaver book that all children will love.
Extension Activities:
Have several sets of a vegetable matching game. Cut out pictures of carrots, radishes, beets, lettuce, broccoli celery and corn. Then cut them with a scissors the different tops and bottoms. Then play the matching game, matching the tops with the correct bottoms.
Have several sets of a vegetable matching game. Cut out pictures of carrots, radishes, beets, lettuce, broccoli celery and corn. Then cut them with a scissors the different tops and bottoms. Then play the matching game, matching the tops with the correct bottoms.
