| Hello, New Orleans! Contributor(s): Zschock, Martha (Author) |
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ISBN: 1933212632 ISBN-13: 9781933212630 Publisher: Arcadia Children's Books OUR PRICE: $8.96 Product Type: Board Books Published: November 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places - United States - Juvenile Fiction | Animals - Birds |
| Dewey: E |
| Lexile Measure: 960 |
| Series: Hello! |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 6" W x 5.8" (0.40 lbs) 16 pages |
| Themes: - Locality - New Orleans, Louisiana - Geographic Orientation - Louisiana |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Welcome to New Orleans Follow parent and child pelicans as they take a tour of the Crescent City together. From the French Quarter to the Garden District, along the Mississippi and across Lake Ponchartrain, join the pelicans as they listen to music at Preservation Hall, celebrate Mardi Gras, and eat jambalaya and gumbo. Visit the Audubon Zoo and City Park, ride a St. Charles Avenue streetcar, and cheer the Saints. Along the way take a swamp tour, visit a plantation, and even ride on a steamboat These feathered tour guides will remind children and their loved ones of their own great visit to New Orleans. Bestselling author Martha Day Zschock is an artist and former elementary teacher with a passion for helping children explore new places. The Hello series illustrates how exploring real places yields new discoveries. Through these journeys, kids can explore and become experts on the world they see inside and outside the book, through the engaging, bright, and detailed illustrations. For ages 2-5. Made in the USA. |
Contributor Bio(s): Zschock, Martha: - Martha Zschock lives with her family on Cape Cod. A former elementary school teacher, she was inspired by field trips with her students to write her first book, Journey Around Cape Cod from A to Z. Martha's journey has continued with more books in the series from other places including, Boston, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Chicago, Maine, Nantucket, and New York. Martha and her family enjoy the journey of creating the series, which includes lots of traveling, writing, painting, and meeting lots of wonderful children and adults along the way. Martha often collaborates on projects with her twin sister, Heather, an art director and freelance designer. When her twin sister had a baby, Martha began writing and painting for a new "Hello!" series of board books which take the youngest explorers on journeys to several locations such as Florida, Brooklyn, Washington DC, Boston, Yellowstone, and America. |