Grab Five Busy Beavers Published By Stella Partheniou Grasso Accessible As Paperback

really enjoyed this book, but my son didnt, He kept trying to get away to play, I liked the counting down, and I especially liked what the four beavers that went away did in the end, Just perfect for a storytime, I'd want to use it with some cute felt beavers since we're always counting with felt too, All that beaver related vocabulary was a bit of a challenge, but its a cute story, One of my favourites. A joy to read to my daughter, Thanks for a lovely book, Stella, Cute illustrations and a simple repeating story, CBT.
I'm inventing initials for further reviews: CBT book, and any who know me, will understand, This is my pet peeve "Children being trivialized or underestimated" CBT, A cute counting rhyme about beavers building a dam, The silly illustrations and the fun rhythm will make this book popular with young children, Each of the five beavers leaves with an animal friend until only one is working by himself, When he leaves all the others come back and work hard to surprise him, and make it up to him,
The very odd font in which this story is written makes it a poor independent reader for early readers or struggling learners.
The lower case w has a vertical stick at the front like an m,
There is a helpful afterword

called Life in a Beaver Pond which contains information about each of the animals from the story.
Included are Beavers, Frogs, Turtles, Muskrat, Heron, Fireflies, Five beavers are busy working on a dam, and over the course of the day, four of them are lured away to play by other animal friends.
The one remaining beaver finishes up the work and heads home by the light of a firefly tired to find that the other beavers and their friends have been planning a welcome home surprise party for him.
Perfect end to a long day! Five busy beavers leave, one by one, until one little beaver has to get the job done all by themselves.
But the missing beaver friends have a surprise planned, This is a great book for counting, I gave it a four because I, personally, don't care much for the illustrations, Not only is it a good book for teaching counting, it would be appropriate for science and nature in teaching about habitats, particularly fresh water.
Excellent book to teach simple counting and animal enthusiasts learn about Beavers, trees, and a bit about the ecology of beaver dams.
Beavers and counting Fun book with lots of vocabularyexpanding words and a surprise ending, Rhyme starts with five busy beavers, but as more animals arrive to play the numbers dwindle down to only one busy beaver left to do all the work.
Eventually, the other beavers arrive with their new friends and they all have a party at the dam, Backmatter discusses what types of animals can be found near a beaver dam, I found this book to be less educational and more complicated than it wanted to be, . . The rhyme is fine but nothing you could really use for storytime, This is a good counting book, It includes details about the animals at the end, Another version oflittle ducks, just with beavers, Beavers all abandon one beaver to do all the work, but, then throw him a surprise party to apologize for leaving him.
If I was that one beaver left with all the work, I don't think I would have thanked them for the surprise party.
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Cute illustrations, if you have a kid obsessed with that song, it can be a good variation on it.
I don't know if it's actually singable, but rhyme is pretty similar, My fouryearold enjoyed this enough for several rereads but I found it a bit meh, I think everyone's who's every done a storytime is familiar with the "Five Little" phenomenon, In this case we have Five Busy Beavers, who one by one abandon their dam project to go play elsewhere, leaving one lone beaver to finish the job.
Unlike most of the "Five Little" rhymes, however, this one doesn't just trail off at the end, with no beavers and no clear conclusion.
Instead, the story returns to the four beavers who left to play, and we find that they have been preparing a party for the lone worker beaver.
Not exactly fair, but an attempt at amends,

Bonus: additional animal facts at the back of the book give this some added oomph, These are the animals that entice the beavers away from the dam, The rhyme is clunky and I found the story too complicated, Very attractive art, good idea, but: the rhymes are herky jerky and make this impossible to read,
I believe that this is patterned on "One elephant went out to play, . . " and it just doesn't scan correctly,
The editor are there still editors" was clearly out cooing over some other book the day this one went to press, or is tone deaf, or doesn't try reading books like this out loud.
I do. Join five little beavers and their playful friends in this countdown to fun!
Five busy beavers building up a dam,
closing up the river where the salmon swam.

Gnawing down trees and ferrying the logs,
Slapping on the mud that they gathered from the bog,
Along came a muskrat who wanted to play,
and one little beaver swam away,
A catchy rhyme counts down from five until there is only one hardworking beaver left, The others disappeared one by one, called away to play by their animal friends a muskrat, a heron, a frog and a turtle.
When the fifth tired beaver finally heads back to the lodge he finds a big surprise!
The bouncy story is rounded out with a facts page at the back, along with information about each animal featured in the book.
The pictures and the "Life in a Beaver Pond" bit at the end are what made this book for me, I had trouble following along for the rest of the book, Surprisingly fun and informative! Sweet picture book aboutbusy beavers who get distracted and run away one at a time until the last one finishes their lodge.
Of course everyone comes back to see what a great home they have now! Great introduction to beaver habitat and other animals who live near beavers.
I read it tost graders and the loved it, Kindergarten and preschool would be happy with this book too, Great preparation for a nature center we are visiting next week, Great book for young children, It is rhyming and has some near rhymes but it works, As a picture book, this one fits the bill, It has counting, rhyming, a fun story and good illustrations, Just looking at the cover, I knew I was going to like it, I loved it so much my I turned it into a felt board book! Follow these busy builders through a beavers day and you will become an avid admirer if you arent one already! Learn about what beavers do while experiencing a darn cute story about what it means to be friends.
And it all rhymes Stella Partheniou Grasso grew up in Niagara Falls, Ontario where she was a regular patron of the Niagara Falls Public Library Victoria and Stamford branches.
Her collection of library cards has grown over the years and she boasts having cards from public libraries in Peterborough, Toronto, Haliburton County, Ajax and Oshawa.
She loves Canadian childrens literature and is happy to share her favourites with a new generation of readers, She is the author of:Creepy Canadian Jokes, illustrated by Bill Dickson Over at the Rink: A Hockey Counting Book, illustrated by Scot Ritchie There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Puck, illustrated by Scot Ritchie and Five Busy Beavers, illustrated by Christine Battuz.
Five Busy Beavers is also avail Stella Partheniou Grasso grew up in Niagara Falls, Ontario where she was a regular patron of the Niagara Falls Public Library Victoria and Stamford branches.
Her collection of library cards has grown over the years and she boasts having cards from public libraries in Peterborough, Toronto, Haliburton County, Ajax and Oshawa.
She loves Canadian children's literature and is happy to share her favourites with a new generation of readers, She is the author of:Creepy Canadian Jokes, illustrated by Bill Dickson Over at the Rink: A Hockey Counting Book, illustrated by Scot Ritchie There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Puck, illustrated by Scot Ritchie and Five Busy Beavers, illustrated by Christine Battuz.
Five Busy Beavers is also available in French as Cinq joyeux castors, sitelink.