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Librarian’s Review of Publisher’s Advance Copy Date: January 16, 2016 Author:

Editor:

Hillenbrand, Will

Title: All for a dime! A Bear and Mole story Series: Illustrator:

Photographer:

Publisher: Holiday House

Will Hillenbrand Publication Date: 2015

ISBN: 978-0-8234-2946-2 Nonfiction:

Easy:

Pages: unp. Fiction:

Price: $ 16.95

Genre/Dewey Classification:

Theme or Topic: Farmers’ markets-Fiction; Bears-Fiction; Moles (Animals)-Fiction; Skunks-Fiction Grade Range: P K-2 Quality Rating    

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Highly Recommended Recommended Additional Selection Not Recommended

Comments/Evaluation: (include review sources here) Kirkus Reviews, July 1, 2015; Publishers Weekly, June 22, 2015; Booklist, January 1, 2016 (online) Hillenbrand created the artwork using 6B graphite pencil, color pencil, chalk pastels, pixels, china marker, crayon, ink, watercolor, collage, transparent tape, and kneaded eraser on paper/canvas. Youngsters will enjoy the fun artwork and reading/listening to the sound words. Spare text and large illustrations make this humorous story a great read-aloud.

Annotation: Bear, Mole, and Skunk decide to sell their favorite things at Market Day. Lots of animals buy blueberries from Bear, but no one buys the freshly dug worms from Mole or the perfume that Skunk has made, instead animal pass by holding their noses and coughing. Hoping to increase sales, Mole and Skunk switch seats. All afternoon they take turns using one dime to buy their own worms and perfume from each other. At the end of the day Mole and Skunk are tired but excited because they have sold out. When they count their money though, Mole only has a dime and Skunk has nothing. They are puzzled that they only made a dime yet they were busy all day. Bear passes by with a wagon full of purchases. He tells them he sold all but one box of berries that they can share to put on the ice cream that he bought with his dimes.

Prepared by: Ruth Cook, Librarian

Campus: Pond Springs