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How I Spent My Summer Vacation (Dragonfly Books) | 
| Author: Mark Teague
Publisher: Dragonfly Books
Buy New: $6.99
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Rating:  reviews
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Pages: 32
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 9.9 x 0.1
ISBN: 0517885565
EAN: 9780517885567
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 For that warm & fuzzy feeling, read this book to your child. May 2, 2010
Tom Brody (Berkeley, CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
HOW I SPENT MY SUMMER VACATION by Mark Teague is a 31-page medium format book. There are 31 illustrations. Nine of the illustrations are panoramas, taking up two entire pages.
The plot concerns a boy reading his school paper, regarding his summer vacation, to the class. The illustration shows a desert landscape materializing on the center of the blackboard in the schoolroom. The next illustration shows the boy actually walking on the desert, but still clutching his term paper, and still reading the paper. Along come some cowboys. The cowboys capture the boy, but they are benign cowboys. They give the boy a kid-sized cowboy outfit to wear, and the illustrations show the boy getting lessons in lassoing and making campfires. The landscape contains cacti and mesas. The storyline segues, in part, back to the boy's real-life situation, and it shows the cowboys having a conventional picnic in a grassy back yard. At the picnic, there is a 20th century barbeque grill, and there are 20th century style hot dogs, and slices of watermelon. At any rate, the cattle stampede, and you can see them approaching from the desert, creating massive clouds of dust, and in the background are mesas. The boy stops the cattle by waving a red tablecloth. Then, the illustrations segue back to the classroom.
The writing goes like this: "When summer began, I headed out west. My parents had told me I needed a rest. Your imagination, they said, is getting too wild. It will do you some good to relax for a while. So they put me aboard a westbound train. To visit Aunt Fern in her house on the plains. But I was captured by cowboys, a wild looking crowd, their manners were rough and their voices were loud." The writing in the entire book takes the form of rhyming sentences.
Regarding the illustrations, all of the colors are somewhat dark, as might be found in typical drawings by children. Typically, only adult artists realize that most out-of-doors scenes, especially desert scenes, are much brigher than the colors available in sets of colored pencils, or by sets of Crayola Crayons, or by a typical set of watercolors. (The paintings of Robert Bechtle provide an excellent example of out-of-door scenes that have a brightness more in line with actual out-of-doors brightness) The clouds in Mark Teague's desert resemble the surrealistic desert objects found in deserts of artist, Yves Tanguy. Most of Mark Teague's illustrations take up the entire page, but some have wavey borders, resembling the wavey border of a small puddle of spilled milk. The illustrations are in a realistic style, but not in the sharp-edged, super-realistic style used in children's books by David Wiesner (TUESDAY) or by Jan Brett (OWL & THE PUSSYCAT). I prefer Mark Teague's style of art.
 : ) April 14, 2010
Ulyyf (NYC)
I wish I had a vacation as interesting as this kid!
When giving his BORING report about his BORING vacation... wait, no, that was somebody else. This kid's vacation included being kidnapped. By COWBOYS! And having to stop a cattle stampede! And being a hero!
Good rhymes, great fun, and cute ending with a bull in time for show-and tell. Anybody who's had to suffer through the first day of school blues should get a copy :)
 Book came in Poor condition June 5, 2009
Sherry (California United States)
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
The seller made it sound like the book was in great condition. When I got the book. . .it had pencil marks and a huge rip on one of the pages. . .not good!
Great lead in for writing. August 31, 2008
L. Meeks
I used this book with my first graders as a lead in to a writing activity at the beginning of the school year. They loved it!
Fantastic! August 26, 2008
Tish (NYC)
My 2 year old son loves this book! The rhymes on each page are very soothing and the pictures are detailed and engaging. I thought it would be too old for him, but he likes it more every time we read it to him. We also pick out unexpected things in the pictures -- the bunny rabbit here, the slice of watermellon at the BBQ, etc. I highly recommend it!
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