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School Library Journal - 02/01/2015 PreS-Gr 2—Chernesky and Swan, creators of Pick a Circle, Gather Squares: A Fall Harvesting of Shapes (Albert Whitman, 2013), have teamed up again, this time to showcase opposites. Miss Ava's class has spring fever. Despite the rain, she takes her students on a field trip. In this rhyming adventure, the kids discover "a springtime of opposites" on their journey to a local farm. Riding on the school bus, they soar up hills and back down. They travel a crooked lane and pass straight wood fences. At the farm, they see big and small chickens and white and black barn cats. Each pair of opposites is emphasized in bold text. The highlight of the trip is watching baby chicks hatch in the warm incubator. When the students board the bus to head for home, they realize that "Springtime opposites are everywhere!" Although the story is engaging, some of the rhymes are a bit awkward ("A rooster crowed atop the coop/At the bottom, chicken poop!"). The brightly colored collage illustrations fill the pages, adding some country charm to the story and offering plenty of rustic details for children to look at. VERDICT Young fans of the series will enjoy learning their opposites along with the children in Miss Ava's class.—Linda L. Walkins, Saint Joseph Preparatory High School, Boston, MA - Copyright 2015 Publishers Weekly, Library Journal and/or School Library Journal used with permission.

Booklist - 03/15/2015 There’s just so much fun packed into this happy springtime tale that readers will want to hear it read aloud many a time. Color, collage, rhythm and rhyme, and the concept of opposites are combined in this clever, simple story of a spontaneous field trip. One morning, Miss Ave decides that her students would much rather be out than in, and they all hop on a bus and spend the day at a nearby farm. The adventure is described in couplets that include pairs of antonyms, such as up and down, crooked and straight, top and bottom, and cloudy and sunny. These words are set off from the rest of the text in larger, bold letters so young readers can learn to recognize them. Mixed-media illustrations seamlessly integrate digital images and cut-paper collage to fill each two-page spread with color, depth, and texture. - Copyright 2015 Booklist.

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