Gumboot Books Testimonials
ADDverse"Penn is a Pied Piper; no child will be able to resist the music of her numbers."- Duncan Robinson, CBE, Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge University |
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Then It Rained"First there are only 500,045 drops of rain, but as the child's plans keep getting ruined, that number jumps into the billions. It's delightfully childlike hyperbole...Stranaghan captures the exhilaration, and sometimes the frustration, that comes with being a child."- PQB News |
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Math and Poetry Fun"Math and poetry go together. M.W. Penn proves it magnificently."- Eileen Spinelli - award winning children's author. |
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Vernon and the Snake"Stranaghan captures the heart of children when confronted with a scary thing. Beautifully, she expresses the fears children can have...eventually, the two (Vernon and the Snake) find a way to live peacefully together by learning about each other - a valuable lesson which can be applied elsewhere."- PQB News |
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Sidney the Silly Who Only Eats 6"The integration of poetry and mathematics is awesome, captivating; it invites the reader to explore problem solving and number sense!"- Maria Diamantis, Ph. D., Chairperson, Department of Education, Southern Connecticut State University and President of the Association of Teachers of Mathematics New England. (ATOMNE). Sidney the Silly Who Only Eats 6 Won the Conneticut Press Club Children's Book of the Year for 2007! |
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Grinelda"In this cleverly told tale, gleaming rich and brilliant with Paula Nathan's illustrations, children meet a funky, wild-hatted and unforgettable heroine, Grinelda. Author Mary Jo Reinhart sets a modern-day, girl-power Cinderella story within another Cinderella story -- a school play of the classic fairy tale -- to show children that it's not only okay to be creative and different, it often brings down the house. A must have for every school library."- Melanie Jackson, author of award winning books for young adults. |
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Faeries Are Real"Fans of the Spiderwick Chronicles will find much here that seems familiar, and those who enjoy books about faeries will want to read this book."- Puget Sound Council Review |
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