Dawn and the Round to-It

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Dawn gets up bright and early every morning, but nobody comes to play with her. Her family is too busy.

Dawn feels sad and lonely until she gets a crazy idea, an idea that makes her smile a marshmallow marmalade smile. The next time her family is too busy, she knows exactly what to do.

Readers will delight in Dawn's witty solution to an all-too-familiar problem. Tyrone Geter's luminous illustrations lend a ...

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Overview

Dawn gets up bright and early every morning, but nobody comes to play with her. Her family is too busy.

Dawn feels sad and lonely until she gets a crazy idea, an idea that makes her smile a marshmallow marmalade smile. The next time her family is too busy, she knows exactly what to do.

Readers will delight in Dawn's witty solution to an all-too-familiar problem. Tyrone Geter's luminous illustrations lend a gentle warmth to this comforting story of a loving family.

A young girl wants someone to play with her, but the members of her family are all too busy.

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Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly
``Dawn always got up early in the morning,'' begins this tale about an African American girl. ``Dawn dawning at dawn is what Dawn's mother called it.'' Early or late, Dawn never seems to fit into anyone else's schedule. When she entreats her parents or her older brother and sister to play with her, she is invariably brushed off with laments of other obligations and promises to make it up to her, if they ``can get around to it.'' Then ``Dawn had a wild idea, a crazy idea.'' She draws round faces to present at appropriate moments: `` `It's a round to-it,' Dawn explained. `You always say you will play with me when you get around to it, and now you have one.' '' Smalls's ( Irene and the Big Fine Nickel ) wordy text fails to kindle either humor or pathos (the drawn-out ``punch'' line packs no wallop), and overdoes tenderness (the parents respond with instant tears and high emotion). Geter's illustrations reflect family warmth, but they, too, are solemn. Ages 3-6. (May)
School Library Journal
PreS-Gr 2-Smalls's messages-to pay attention to children, to make a place for family, to stop and smell the roses- have been presented in many guises, including Nancy Carlson's Take Time to Relax (Viking, 1991), but her approach is a fresh one. Dawn, who wakes at the crack of dawn, begs for attention but is put off by her siblings and parents who say they'll comply when they ``get around to it.'' The little girl becomes tired of waiting and comes up with a creative way to get their attention: she makes four simply drawn circles, ``round to-its,'' which she hands out to her otherwise engaged family when the time is right. Geter and Smalls's work is a perfect match. His warmly colored oils bleeding off the page are juxtaposed with the beautiful, well-paced prose. The daubed and stroked paintings evoke an unhurried mood needed for Dawn's side of the story. Her beaded, cornrowed hair showcases her African American heritage. This beautiful, quiet, impressionistic piece suggests that it's not just ``quality time'' that's important, but any time. Dawn's round-to-its are sure to make adults sit up and take notice, and give children insight into creative problem solving.-Harriett Fargnoli, Great Neck Library, NY
Mary Harris Veeder
Dawn gets up at dawn, ready to play. Mom has a busy day and promises time when I can get around to it, a refrain used later by everyone else in the family. Dawn is so discontented that not even her sucking thumb tastes as good as usual. Only when she hits on a special drawing projectshe creates her own round to-itis she satisfied. The joke about the round to-it might need to be explained to very young listeners, but the idea of a child's being excluded when everyone else rushes off to work won't be unfamiliar. Geter's broad, acrylic brush strokes convey the warmth of the African American family's casual interactions during the morning, a period that may be the only family time.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780671871666
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
  • Publication date: 4/5/1994
  • Pages: 40
  • Age range: 4 - 8 Years
  • Product dimensions: 10.27 (w) x 8.32 (h) x 0.37 (d)

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