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     Each school year starts with children watercolor painting a chameleon after reading A Color of His Own. Inch by Inch is in a year-long math center with snap together inchworms and addition fact cards. But I never expected the reactions from this week's Leo Lionni author study. It was a hit!
    They knew of Swimmy from Kindergarten and enjoyed Frederick saving up colorful memories for winter. Let's Make Rabbits got a few laughs.
    This week's all-time favorite? So much so we read it again Wednesday? So much so that I overhead, "I love this!" as I was reading aloud. So much so that a little friend asked for "my book" back for her Read-to-Self folder?

 Fish is Fish.

Minnow and Tadpole start out together in the pond.

Frog grows legs and climbs out of the pond.

Frog hops here and there, sees extraordinary things,

and comes back to the pond.

Frog tells Fish about birds, cows and people.

From Fish's point of view, he imagines this:

 which absolutely cracks my kiddos up.

Fish decides he must see these amazing things, but...

I won't give away the happy ending :)

I see library/ bookstore visits in my future this weekend.