Snag Pearl And Wagner: One Funny Day Formulated By Kate McMullan Softcover

a great book that shows you that once you adjust your attitude you can have a great day! "Wagner is having a bad day.
He oversleeps and is late for school, His best friend, Pearl, his teacher, and even the school librarian are acting very strangely, " It's April Fools' Day! Poor Wagner it seems like everybody and everything is out to get him on April Fools' Day.
Even his best friend won't dance with him in the recess dance competition and that's no foolin', Will he figure out a way to turn the tables This is a fun story for April Fool's Day even though we're reading it in November! It has a fairly simple narrative that is engaging and filled with surprises and the illustrations are fun.
Our girls really enjoyed this book it's a good one for children who are just beginning to read chapter books, with three short chapters.
. The book is aGeisel honor book for controlled vocabulary,

. Pearl, a rabbit, and Wagner, a mouse, are best friends who are in the same class at school, It is April first and Wagner continues to be tricked by his friends and teachers on this funny day, They all laugh at the April fool pranks but Wagner only gets more and more discouraged, But in the last chapter, Wagner is the one who has the last laugh, Covered in green spots, he convinces the whole class that he has a bad case of highly contagious bug pox as an April Fools prank of his own.


. a. Content b. Young readers will enjoy this easy reader chapter

book as they identify with some adorable animal characters, c. This book is written with three distinct chapters and contains a table of contents with chapter titles and page numbers.
Each chapter is episodic and can be read and comprehended as separate stories, One chapter is about a series of jokes played on Wagner by his teacher and his friends, another is about Wagners lack of skills at a dance contest and the third is about Wagners sudden case of the bug pox.
The April Fools theme and the fact that each story plays out within the course of the same school day ties them all together in a very meaningful way.


. This book can be used in an elementary curriculum in a variety of ways, The dialogue is simple and direct and can be used as a model for childrens own writing, The characters are also all very different from one another, They include a duck, a mouse, a rabbit, a pig and a frog, The book might be a great leadin to a study about diversity for a civics unit about community,
Age Range:
Its April Fools Day and Wagner seems to be on the wrong end of every joke.
After a trying day of feeling out of sorts, Wagner embraces his malaise and discovers a perfect solution, While turnabout is fair play isnt usually endorsed in childrens books, most kids will identify with Wagners desire to turn the tables on a day that has him on the wrong foot.

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Wagner is having a bad day, He overslept, late for school, the butt of jokes, and feels out of place at the dance contest during gym class when Pearls dances with Bud, and wins the contest.
What else could happen on this April fool's Day Poor Wagner, his day is not going well, He gets tricked about homework and the lunch menu because it is April Fool's Day, and then PE is a dance competition.
But in the last chapter, Wagner thinks up a way to turn around his April Fool's Day,

Ok, those two up there are purely because I personally loathe and despise April Fool's Day, Can't stand the way it is often used as a cover for bullying and mean pranks, So the topic of this entire beginning reader chapter book was not my favorite at all, The illustrations are cute, though, and I can see the appeal for kids, Very cute beginner chapter book, with many adorable illustrations, This book is part of a series, in this story Wagner deals with April fools Day everyone keeps tricking him, and it is not until the end that he pays them back.
The book was an easy and funny read recommended for first grade and up, I read this aloud to a seven and four year old, They thought it was very funny! Wagner does not like all the pranks that people play on April Fools' Day.
He comes up with a humdinger of his own, I think the book nicely shows sympathy for sensitive kids who don't like to be the butt of jokes, Recommended for first and second grade independent readers,
Genre: Controlled Vocabulary Geisel Award

Summary: From the time he gets up Wagner is having an awful day, but to make things worse it also happens to be April Fools Day and Wagner has a hard time understanding everyone jokes, including his friend Pearls, though thankfully Wagners mood changes by the end of the day and he is the one who has the last laugh.


A. Area for comment: Vocabulary and illustrations

B, This is a great intermediate reader for students transitioning from small picture books to more in depth text materials because the story contains a good assortment of vocabulary that is supported by charming, charismatic illustrations.
The balance between text and illustration is perfect and allows readers to explore the storyline through both mediums,

C. The two pages in which Wagner appears to be sneezing while covered in green spots all over his face is adorable, as it connects the reader to the scene of the story with great meaning through both the text and the visual images pg,.
Wagners fear and frustration of the ongoing April Fools jokes is apparent on pg,, as the Librarian Mr. Fox, tells Wagner his book is over due and he owes a big fine, but then finds out that Mr.
Fox is only joking. The text contains a great deal of dialogue, which can confuse readers, but the use of the images allows the reader to gain a greater understanding of the conversation.
This combination of text and illustration working cooperatively allow young readers to explore easyreader materials with great ease, thus preparing them for materials that are more challenging.


Curriculum connection: I would use this book with intermediate readers, those are a starting to read more than just beginner books.
I feel that the humor of the book would make students eager to read it and would help them feel as though they are reading “a big kid book” since the book is step up in mini chapterlike sections.

I like the expressive characters that reflect true emotions and the differences between friends, There's a little bit of humor and a good thematic thread, A welcome entry in the early reader category, This book is a fun book for young readers! It tells how Wagner's April Fools Day was, He woke up late, and did not realize it was April Fools, Then he had jokes played on him all day, Wagner got mad in gym class, but eventually got his peers back by playing a joke on them, I liked this book because it large fonts, easy vocabulary, and a small number of words per page, It is a great beginning reader book, I would have this in my class library and would read it to my students on April Fools Day,Geisel Honor award
Often times, these early chapter books, while trying to stay easy for young readers, end up having the writing either boring or disjointed.
In this Pearl and Wagner series, all the chapters relate to each other April Fool's Day and the silliness of the characters can be appreciated by young readers, yet still has words and vocabulary that are accessible to them.
Cynthia Rylant is a master of this, This book gets it right, This is aTheodor Seuss Geisel Award honor book for easy readers, It relates the adventures of friends Pearl a rabbit and Wagner a mouse as they go to school on April Fool's Day.
I enjoyed this story, because of Wagner's confusion over what was a joke and what wasn't all throughout the day.
The story held my interest right to the end, I must read more Pearl and Wagner books! Recommended, especially on Aprilst! This is a beginning chapter book with a levelrating.
It is a great book with a holiday theme that younger children would understand easily when it comes to April Fools jokes.
Sweet illustrations and a fun ending with even the teacher getting fooled, Three chapters and others in this series Purchase Man wagner is a negative kid, I feel sorry for him not enjoying things, This is really an April Fools day book and probably should have said that on the cover, I liked the other kids but the negative attitude totally turned me off, I did not find it funny, GradesA fun early independent reader for first graders, An enjoyable read out loud for Kinder through second especially around April Fool's Day, The pictures and text compliment each other and I loved the ending, Poor Wagner, April Fool's Day is getting the best of him at every turn! Double phooey, But he manages to turn things around in the last of the three chapters, Spots, when he plays a prank on his entire class.


A solid easy reader, I enjoy the little details tucked into the illustrations that reward repeated readings I immmediately flipped back through the final chapter to spot the source of those spots.
The humor is just right for early elementary readers, .