quirky but funny. A quick fun little read with great illustrations! I really liked sitelinkLottie's New Beach Towel, the story of a chicken who gets a beach towel as a gift for her day at the seaside.
I thought it was funny and cute and creative, Some of the scenes, like the starfish looking like a chicken's foot, just seemed so quirky yet entertaining, I liked how Lottie was creative with her uses for the beach towel and how it helped solve different problems, especially since I think most people myself included just think of it as being something to sit on or dry off while at the beach.
A few parts were a little "off"like the wedding scene just seemed too sudden of a change/introduction to the rest of the story, but otherwise I thought it was very cute and I liked how she wrote the thank you at the end what good manners! The new beach towel Lottie's aunt sent her saves the day when Lottie goes on a picnic with a pal.
You know, I cannot stress enough the importance of having a good towel,
In helping your team win championships, . .
In braving a Colorado winter, . .
In saving the universe, . .
And, in just demonstrating your allaround nerdiness, . .
This book is totally kooky, but in an endearing way I found myself utterly charmed by this chicken, This is a short story that younger children will enjoy, It's about a hen who finds out what all she can use her new beach towel for, When Lottie the white chicken receives a brand new red beach towel from her Aunt Mattie, the towel not only comes in handy for her seaside picnic with Herbie who looks like he might be a large white duck or some other type of waterfowl, it prevents Lottie from burning her feet in the hot beach sand, is used as a sail by Lottie and Herbie when the motor of their boat sputters and "goes to sleep" and finally, substitutes as an improvised wedding veil for a young murine bride whose wedding veil had blown away in the wind although yes, the red colour does feel a bit strange to and for my eyes for a wedding.
However, while Lottie's New Beach Towel might indeed be a fun story for younger children, and while I do appreciate Lottie's simple and ordinary little seaside escapades to an extent, I am also rather majorly and annoyingly underwhelmed by both text and accompanying illustrations.
Petra Mathers' narrative is cute and entertaining, but also rather simple and totally on the surface, capturing precious little of the magic, sights and sounds of the ocean.
Yes, Lottie is imaginative and I do enjoy how she makes use of her new beach towel, how she uses her aunt's gift to solve the problems that arise at the beach, but I really never feel much emotional attachment to either Lottie or to the story it it entertaining enough, but neither memorable nor in any way spectacular for upon having finished reading, I am left with the deflated questions of "Is this it " and "Is this all".
And part of my lack of enthusiasm for Lotties New Beach Towel might well be due to the fact that I have never even as a young child liked stories with anthropomorphic animals all that much except perhaps in fairy and folktales, but I also do think it has very much to do with the fact that I really do not AT ALL enjoy Petra Mathers illustrations.
They are much too cartoonlike for my aesthetic tastes and seem rather majorly static and motionless, showing very little of the magic, the sights and sounds of the sea even the waves, even the water itself feel stagnant and quite lifeless.
Now I still do believe that Lottie's New Beach Towel could be a hit with young children and would likely work very rather well as a read aloud.
But for me, personally, there is just not enough of the magic of the seaside present in either Petra Mathers' narrative or in her illustrations to rate Lottie's New Beach Towel with more than a low two.
Cute story, but the illustrations didn't do it justice, This was a cute story about how one thing can help you manage other things as well,
The book had an easy language and some great pictures, so I would therefore use this in my classroom for the youngest ones ages.
I read sitelinkLottie's New Beach Towel to myyear old and she seemed to enjoy it, I am reading seaside/beach books for a Goodreads group I am involved in, This month's theme can be found here: sitelink goodreads. com/topic/show/
It is also great that my family will be visiting the seaside soon,
This is one of a series of Lottie books about a chicken, This time Lottie receives a package that contains a towel, Lottie finds creative uses for the towel on her way to a beach outing, Although the color choices of the book were lovely and bright, I wasn't really that drawn to the illustrations and the story didn't leave me wanting to check out more Lottie books, The first of Petra Mathers' series of picturebook featuring Lottie the chicken, her seagull friend Herbie, and their adventures together and with other friends, Lottie's New Beach Towel sees our galline heroine making excellent use of the polkadotted beach towel sent
to her as a gift by her Aunt Mattie.
As a means of getting around on the hot sand, as a makeshift sail, and as an impromptu bridal veil, it is one versatile accessory, . .
I don't know that I would ever have picked this up, were it not one of our July selections, over in the PictureBook Club to which I belong, where our theme this month is seaside/beach reads.
I've enjoyed Mathers' illustrations in other works Alice Schertle's sitelinkButton Up!: Wrinkled Rhymes, for instance but somehow the cover of this one didn't appeal to me, and, once I'd actually looked through it, I discovered that the interior artwork wasn't any more to my taste.
Sadly, the narrative wasn't strong enough to compensate, Still, tastes vary, and I can see young readers who enjoy animal stories warming to this one and possibly even the sequels, even though it wasn't to my taste.
This book is so cute, Lottie uses her new beach towel creatively to save the day over and over again in this cute book, My son kindergarten really enjoyed that he could successfully sound out most of the words in this book by himself, Most books that he can read by himself have a boring story line but this one didn't, He borrowed this book from the library and enjoyed it so much that we ordered a copy for him to add to his collection, We own this one and love it every time we read it, One of my favorite books/series for kids, Read several times a week when our kids were little, Petra Mathers created a beautiful world and I wanna go there, We just discovered this series, and I frankly don't get why it's not more popular: It's funny, original, whimsical, cute, endearing and in each book expands on some difficult situation or human emotion in a very earnest, easy to emphatize with kind of way.
Unless, because there's so much in them to smile at for the parent, people think it misses the mark for kids, My four year old however was very interested in them, The naive pictures are easy to relate to, as are the situations and concerns of the main characters, and some of the pages made him laugh out loud.
Lottie, the chicken, seems to be a very sensible, good natured chicken, The series centers on the tender friendship she has with Herbie, the duck, another endearing character but whose imperfections are more obvious, sitelinkLottie's New Beach Towel opens with "Lottie was squeezing lemons when a package arrived, " And there is a picture of Lottie making lemonade and banana, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, while out the window the mail man is dropping of the package.
The package contains of course the beach towel, and the rest of the story is about how it comes in handy, I found the pictures beautiful, silly, funny and atmospheric, the text is simple but interspersed with humor, such as on the beach when a big wave comes and knocks over Lottie in the water and as she retrieves her bearings she utters "Is that my foot Silly me, it's a starfish.
" My kid could not stop laughing, Lottie and Herbie have warm complicity, and despite being just a silly chicken and a duck, are not devoid of humor either, After a very satisfying, eventful day, Lottie heads home and the pictures here are even more than atmospheric, they're amazing! "She walked up the dune, The cool sand squeaked between her toes, " Loved this book!! Read to me by my Daddy, Grandpa, and Mommy! One day Lottie, a hen, received a package, Inside was a pretty beach towel, Lottie took it to the beach where she found six different uses for it, Her new beach towel was a wonderful gift that saved the day in six important ways,
This story is great for agesand has fun illustrations, Lottie gets a new beach towel from her Aunt Mattie just in time to go on a picnic with her friend Herbie, The beach towel keeps her feet from getting burned on the hot sand, becomes a sail when their boat's engine stops, and becomes a veil for a bride when her's is blown away by the wind.
Im reading this late. It was one of the picture books selected for the Picture Books Club, part of the sitelinkChildren's Books group, for lasts months seasides/beaches theme.
This is one book Id have appreciated much more when I was at the target age, It is relatively cute, though a bit weird, I like the creativity and inventiveness of Lotties use of her new beach towel, and I appreciated the humor, Lottie as a character and the story itself was just okay though, as were the illustrations, Somehow, though, I did like this enough to give itstars, barely though, .