Just How Long Can A Long String Be?!

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Top picture book author and artist Keith Baker presents a classic book about problem solving for the very young.

One day Ant encounters a great big ball of string, and can't see his way over or through it. Fortunately, when he asks his friend Bird "How long is a string?" Bird wisely shows him all the wonderful ways a string can be cut up and used, to the delight of both friends. And after a day of adventure the question doesn't seem to be a problem anymore -- a string can be as long as Ant needs it to be.

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Overview

Top picture book author and artist Keith Baker presents a classic book about problem solving for the very young.

One day Ant encounters a great big ball of string, and can't see his way over or through it. Fortunately, when he asks his friend Bird "How long is a string?" Bird wisely shows him all the wonderful ways a string can be cut up and used, to the delight of both friends. And after a day of adventure the question doesn't seem to be a problem anymore -- a string can be as long as Ant needs it to be.

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School Library Journal

PreS-Gr 2

Ant asks Bird the title question, and Bird answers by taking his small friend on a journey. As the white string crosses each colorful spread, Bird presents both playful and practical possibilities. "Will it finish a necklace?/A banjo?/A mop?/Will it partner a puppet?/A yo-yo?/A top?" By using pale overlapping images, Baker creates a sense of movement in many of the illustrations. A palette of pastels captures the beauty of spring with sweet pea vines climbing toward the sun, a kite flying in a powder blue sky, and Bird weaving string into her nest. At journey's end, Ant says, "Thank you, Bird!/Now I see.../a string's just as long/as I need it to be." Pair this lovely book with Ezra Jack Keats's Jennie's Hat (HarperCollins, 1966; o.p.) for a fine spring storytime.-Mary Jean Smith, Southside Elementary School, Lebanon, TN

Kirkus Reviews
Little Ant's exclamatory question allows Bird to produce a list of long and short ideas handily crafted from a ball of white string. In the air holding balloons or kites, in the house hanging a painting, in the garden tying vines of peas, Baker's patterned rhyme beautifully balances the continual image of a white cord that loops along his elegant full page chalk/crayon-style drawings on pastel-hued, spring-like backgrounds. "Will it pull down a shade? / Will it turn on a light? / Will it fly in the sky / holding on to a kite?" Ant and Bird create clever applications exploring the many everyday basic uses for good string, ultimately and logically migrating to Bird's adroit nest weaving. "Ah! / Will it weave through a nest? / That's the string I like best!" Budding and new readers will easily fill in the rhyme as they match illustrations to context. Another winner for the pattern-book list. (Picture book. 3-6)

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780545086615
  • Publisher: Scholastic, Inc.
  • Publication date: 4/15/2009
  • Pages: 32
  • Sales rank: 493,951
  • Age range: 3 - 5 Years
  • Product dimensions: 10.20 (w) x 8.10 (h) x 0.50 (d)

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