You Are Two

by Sara O'Leary, Karen Klassen (Illustrator)

Overview

COMMON CORE
RL.1.1,2,3,4,5,7
L.1.1,1d,1e,1g,1j,4,5,5c,6
RF.1.1,4,4a,4c
SL.1.1,1a,1b,1c,2,4,5,6
W.1.3,5,8

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781771473569
Publisher:	OWLKIDS BOOKS
Publication date:	04/15/2019
Series:	You Are , #2
Pages:	24
Product dimensions:	7.20(w) x 7.10(h) x 0.50(d)
Lexile:	AD380L (what's this?)
Age Range:	3 Months to 3 Years

About the Author

SARA O’LEARY is a writer for both children and adults. Her picture books include Owls Are Good at Keeping Secrets: An Unusual Alphabet, A Family is a Family is a Family, and This is Sadie.

KAREN KLASSEN is an award-winning freelance illustrator and painter, specializing in fashion, lifestyle, and portrait illustration. She lives in Calgary, Alberta.

Editorial Reviews

"A classic piece that is read to and treasured as a keepsake."

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"This compelling blend of the familiar and the fresh provides a powerful anchor for young readers... Just like You Are One, this lovely book would make the perfect birthday gift. Highly Recommended."

Canadian Review of Materials

"A lovely, carefully written book... Filled with sensitive, layered and textured portraits of children of different races and sexes, sharing the magical age of two years and all the experiences that includes."

The Midwest Book Review

"Both adults and children will enjoy sharing the books in this series to celebrate the milestones of early childhood."

Canadian Children’s Book News

"Elegant in its simplicity."
—School Library Journal

"Two is human in this picture book, and the narration's direct address provides affirmation of toddlers' human complexity and dignity."
—Kirkus Reviews, STARRED REVIEW

Praise for You Are One

"Here's a rarity in children's literature... endearing... delightfully textured... features babies of varying skin colors and ethnicities; it's truly inclusive."
– Julie Danielson, Kirkus column

"A warm and fuzzy read."
—School Library Journal

From the Publisher

"Both adults and children will enjoy sharing the books in this series to celebrate the milestones of early childhood."

Canadian Children’s Book News

★ 2016-06-22
A celebration of what it is to be 2!Toddlerhood often gets a bad rap—just think of the phrase "terrible twos." But in O'Leary and Klassen's hands, 2 is anything but terrible. Two is active, capable, vocal, compassionate, thoughtful, creative, determined…whole. Two is human in this picture book, and the narration's direct address provides affirmation of toddlers' human complexity and dignity from one spread to the next: "Now that you are two, you are learning about yesterday, today, and tomorrow. You are forming memories and making plans." Accompanying illustrations depict a diverse range of children, different ones on each spread, which nicely avoids having any one depiction of toddlerhood falsely stand in as universal, who engage in activities that echo or expand on the text. Playful industriousness gives way to contemplative calm or mischievous determination, embodied in the faces and postures of the children. The dialectic between art and text offers some surprises, too, as when the line "Wherever you go your baby goes, too" is paired with a picture of a child in the bathtub—not with a baby doll but with a sudsy toy T. Rex. Pick up a copy or two for the toddlers and toddler-fans in your life. (Picture book. 2)

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