good story for storytime on foxes, woodland critters, senses, or names ( )

Rosie is very good at finding lost things. She smells were they are, this earns her the nickname Nosy Rosie, which she despises. She refuses to help find lost things until they call her just Rosie. ( )

Genre: This book is a good example of fantasy because the book is centered around animals that talk and have human characteristics. For example, Rose has a good sense of smell and can find anything. When her mom looses Harry, Rose finds her but she does not like being called Nosy Rosie because her name in Rose.
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Age: Primary ( )

From School Library Journal
Starred Review. PreSchool-Grade 2–Keller takes on the subject of name calling in a gentle, simple, and compassionate manner. Rose the fox uses her exceptional sense of smell to find things that others lose, such as a lipstick that smells red, a baseball that smells new, and the babys bottle that smells like milk. Because of her abilities, she is dubbed Nosy Rosie, a name that everyone thinks is funny except Rose. Finally, when family members beg her to find their missing items, she shouts, I dont hear you because thats not my name. The heartfelt dialogue poignantly conveys the little foxs hurt feelings and reads aloud perfectly. The colorful mixture of robust watercolors and simple black lines touchingly reveals each characters attitude through expressive body movement rather than facial features. Each spread has one big illustration that sometimes fills the entire page and an opposite page that displays smaller vignettes on a clean white background. The large text is easy to see even on a colored background, and the satisfying conclusion is one that children will cheer. A great choice to start a discussion of this issue, as well as a sweet story.–Kirsten Cutler, Sonoma County Library, CA Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. ( )