Product Description

Using simple language and humorous, everyday experiences, Poppleton's fun Fall adventures can be enjoyed by a beginning reader or read aloud to a younger child.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1255530 in Books
• Published on: 1999-09-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 56 pages

From School Library Journal
Grade 1-3 Three more easy-to-read stories starring the lovable pig and his friends. The text never exceeds six lines per page, and Rylant employs plenty of repetition and rhyming words to recount Poppleton's adventures. In the first story, he invites two southbound Canada geese in for cookies. As soon as they leave, five more land and come in for a treat. As soon as they are gone, eight more arrive, leaving their genial host exhausted. Next, Poppleton shops for a winter coat, and in the third selection, he and Cherry Sue attend the Lion's Club's annual Pancake Breakfast (prepared by lions, of course). Teague's whimsical watercolors are full of humorous touches and seasonal details. A perfect package for beginning readers that will be read and shared throughout the year. Olga R. Barnes, Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County, NC
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Kirkus Reviews
This latest in an early-reading series from Rylant, featuring the everyday adventures of Poppleton the pig, is as wry and supple as other entries, with the added charm of familiarity. In three stories, Poppleton's pal Cherry Sue serves as a safety net to the pig's minor misadventures. The first is a bit of nonsense involving geese flying south; Poppleton invites them in for cookies, but chatting and serving so many geese exhausts him so that he can only utter gibberish when he drops by Cherry Sue's, and succumbs to a nap. When Poppleton seeks a new winter coat, Zacko the ferret haberdasher insults the pig for his rotundity. Cherry Sue, reminding Poppleton that Zacko is a ferret, after all, with a radically different perspective on big and small, gives her friend a catalog for big and tall pigs. Lastly, Cherry Sue saves Poppleton's bacon at the Lion's Club pancake breakfast. If the prose invites a merry, humorous reading, Teague, hitting the illustrator's equivalent of a perfect stride, provides wonderful scenes that conduct beginning readers through the story. (Picture book. 2-7) -- Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About the Author
As a child in West Virginia, Newbery Medalist Cynthia Rylant devoured comic books and paperback romances. She never dreamed of being a writer until she took one college English class. Then she became "hooked on great writing...I didn't know about this part of me until I went to college—didn't know that I loved beautiful stories." One night, inspired by the Southern writer, James Agee, she wrote her first picture book, When I Was Young in the Mountains, which was an instant success. Since then, she's written more than 60 children's books and received numerous awards, including the Newbery and the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award. With simplicity and grace, Rylant's books explore such subjects as aging, the trials of spirituality, the loss of a loved one, and the spirit and integrity of family life with all its joys and hardships. Rylant has said, "Books alter our hearts." Her books are a testament to this promise. Rylant lives in the Pacific Northwest. For more information about Cynthia Rylant, visit: scholastic.com/tradebooks