Share with Brother

by Steven Layne, Ard Hoyt (Illustrator)

Overview

This delightfully illustrated book for young readers tells of a child getting used to the idea of sharing with his little brother. He doesn't want to! But he soon finds out that if he shares with brother, brother shares with him.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781589808607
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	12/07/2010
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	8.10(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.30(d)
Age Range:	5 - 8 Years

About the Author

Dr. Steven L. Layne holds degrees in psychology and education from Judson University, where he is professor and chair of graduate programs in literacy. He is the author of over thirty books, including two International Literacy Association/Children's Book Council Children's Choice award winners.


Ard Hoyt graduated from the Art College Center of Design in Pasadena, California with a major in illustration. His illustrated works have hit the New York Times bestseller list and garnered such awards as the ASPCA's Henry Bergh Children's Book Award.

Editorial Reviews

Sharing is not necessarily natural or easy for young ones, and Layne's book only makes the act less so. Here are two rabbits, little bunny and littler bunny, and little bunny is getting a lesson in sharing. When little bunny is playing safari with his friends and there is no wild-animal mask for littler bunny, who is bawling, Mommy takes little bunny's mask and gives it to littler bunny. "Share with brother and someday brother will share with you." Then Nana makes him share his slice of cake—why doesn't she just cut littler bunny a slice?—and Uncle Lester reminds him to share at his birthday party. Soured to the point of bitterness, little bunny flings Uncle Lester's present back at him. Who can blame him, but who likes him for it? Hoyt's artwork, meanwhile, is as colorful as holiday cookies and wonderfully drenched in heavy body language, all squinty eye and deep frown. In a meant-to-be-humorous twist, littler bunny freely shares his measles, but since readers have nothing genuine invested in either bunny—one grumpy, one spoiled—the humor disappears like smoke. (Picture book. 4-6)

Kirkus Reviews