Those Green Things

A persistent and imaginative daughter questions her mother about green things around their home.

Those Green Things

Illustrated by
Deirdre Betteridge

Annick Press
ISBN: 1-55037-377-3
(Hardcover)
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ISBN: 1-55037-376-5
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"One day a friend of my daughter’s said to me, "What are those green things in your sandwich?" They were such ordinary green things and yet she made them sound so yucky. Before eating my sandwich, I scribbled down her question, because I knew I wanted to put it in a story some day." - KS

| Reviews |

Kathy Stinson has done it again. She has got right inside the mind of a bored child pestering her mother and exercising her own imagination at the same time. Nobody really minds; mother has an imagination to match her daughter's, and the book ends with a fine touch of humour.

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Those Green Things is a great book to coax reluctant read-alouders into playing along.

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This is a different story abouat the colour green. Not only is the imagination allowed free rein, but the text is written in an unusual poetic sort of question and answer style.

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