  | "Slowly, slowly, slowly," said the sloth Author: Carle, Eric | |
| Price: $21.46 | ||
Summary:
Challenged by the other jungle animals for its seemingly lazy ways, a sloth living in a tree explains the many adventures of his slow and peaceful existence.
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| Accelerated Reader Information: Interest Level: LG Reading Level: 2.80 Points: .5 Quiz: 59600 | Reading Counts Information: Interest Level: K-2 Reading Level: 2.70 Points: 1.0 Quiz: 31487 | |
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Grade K → Reading → RL Literature → K.RL Key Ideas & Details
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Reviews:
Kirkus Reviews (+) (08/01/02)
School Library Journal (+) (09/02)
Full Text Reviews:
School Library Journal - 09/01/2002 K-Gr 3-As a sloth crawls along a branch, eats a leaf, sleeps, and awakens, echoing the languid tempo of its rain-forest life, Carle grabs readers' attention with a continuous procession of animals, revealing the diversity of their habitat. Anaconda, peccary, tapir, caiman, jaguar, toucan, and armadillo, among others, quietly observe the creature and gently disappear in a march of bold colors. Carle's art is at its best with a brightly colored selection of painted tissue-paper collage that captures 25 rain-forest denizens. Each page of text reinforces the sloth's slow pace, until it ends its silence and temporarily changes the measured text tempo in a lengthy paragraph (with 20 adjectives) explanation of his love for serenity. In an introduction, both Carle and zoologist Jane Goodall praise efforts to save the rain-forest habitat and slow the pace of today's hurried lifestyle. The artwork alone places this book as a treasured addition for all libraries.-Mary Elam, Forman Elementary School, Plano, TX Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information. - Copyright 2002 Publishers Weekly, Library Journal and/or School Library Journal used with permission.
