So Many Books!

by Sue Fliess, Ann Marie Stephens, Alexandra Colombo (Illustrator)

Overview

When is the perfect time to read a book? Anytime!

Whether you're indoors or outside, at home or in the library, whether you're by yourself or with a friend, anytime is the right time to read a book! Featuring rhythmic, rhyming text and delightful illustrations, this story celebrates the magic of reading in an array of settings and situations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807532331
Publisher:	Whitman, Albert & Company
Publication date:	04/10/2025
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	8.20(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Sue Fliess is the award-winning, bestselling author of more than fifty children's books including Cicada Symphony, The Earth Gives More, and the Kid Scientist series. Her books have been named to notable lists and translated into multiple languages. Sue lives in Northern Virginia.

Ann Marie Stephens is the author of numerous picture books including the Arithmechicks and A Catastrophe Tale series. An award-winning elementary teacher with over thirty years’ experience, she is now retired and living in Virginia. Ann Marie’s poetry and literacy work has been featured in Bon Appetit and on NPR radio.

Alexandra Colombo has illustrated more than two hundred books in countries around the world, including the United States, Italy, Spain, England, Australia, and Israel. She loves walking in nature, and she loves animals, especially her dogs Kay, Ubi, and Ary. She and her dogs work with a rescue unit, searching for missing persons in the woods and after natural disasters. She lives in Milan, Italy.

Editorial Reviews

This exuberant rhyming ode to reading is primed to get kids excited about the wonders awaiting them between the pages of a book... If this book doesn’t turn kids into ardent readers, nothing will... Lots of page-turning fun for everyone: a book that demands repeat visits. —Kirkus

From the Publisher

2025-01-18
Oh, the books you’ll read!

This exuberant rhyming ode to reading is primed to get kids excited about the wonders awaiting them between the pages of a book. As the authors wisely point out, books are perfect anytime, anywhere—and they’re for everyone. Readers are encouraged to give books as gifts, to share them with friends and family, and even to write and illustrate their own books. Savor them at bedtime, too. There are even options for the youngest kids—board books with flaps to lift and mirrors adorning the pages so that tiny listeners can admire and make faces at themselves. Just like readers, books vary in appearance and type—long, short, hard, soft, and everything in between. And who says books must only beread? Some books even help us sing. Best of all, you don’t have to buy books: Public libraries offer them for free! Return what you finish, then borrow more—as often as you like. What’s a better deal than that? If this book doesn’t turn kids into ardent readers, nothing will. Besides the bouncy, jubilant verses, the energetic illustrations will do the trick, brimming with ebullient colors and featuring a cast of spirited readers, diverse in terms of both race and age.

Lots of page-turning fun for everyone: a book that demands repeat visits.(Picture book. 4-7)

Kirkus Reviews