Description
Try, try again is the lesson Crow teaches beginning readers in this picture book reader. Crow was all alone. But like all crows, he was very clever. Using autumn leaves for wings, sticks for the body and a crab apple for the head, Crow made a friend! But winter winds blew in, destroying his creation. Undaunted, Crow fashioned another bird friend out of snow but could not prevent it from melting in the warm spring sun. Alone again, Crow heard the caw, caw, caw of a real, live bird. Together they built a nest and by summer, Crow had a family. This warm, satisfying story celebrates perseverance and ingenuity. An I Like to Read® book. Guided Reading Level D.
About the Author
Margaret is thrilled to present her new picture book from Muddy Boots, AT NIGHT. What animals forage by night and sleep by day? This children’s picture book describes the nocturnal lives of nine common animals: foxes, porcupines, raccoons, skunks, opossums, bobcats, owls, mice, and rabbits. Join the adult animals guiding their children through the forest during the dark of night. The book includes information on the common names of the animal’s offspring (i.e. fox:kit).Margaret's picture book CROW MADE A FRIEND, one of Holiday House's acclaimed I LIKE TO READ series, received a starred Kirkus review and was on the Kirkus Best Books of 2015 list. Her non-fiction kid's book INKBLOT: DRIP, SPLAT AND SQUISH YOUR WAY TO CREATIVITY (Boyds Mills Press, Spring 2011) received a starred review from School Library Journal, a Silver Eureka! medal for non-fiction books for children, and is an Orbis Pictus Recommended Book for 2012.Her collaborative coloring books with Sourcebooks, LET'S COLOR TOGETHER: A SHAREABLE COLORING BOOK FOR PARENTS AND KIDS, and LET'S COLOR TOGETHER: SECRET WORLDS, are perfect for coloring with a friend. the images are arranged so that two people can color across from one another, an intricate image on one side and a simpler version of the same image on the other. These have found an audience not only with parents and kids who love to color together, but also with elders and kids, and elders and their adult children.Margaret's COLOR, PUNCH OUT AND PLAY SETS: TEA PARTY, MUSEUM VISIT, and FAIRY HOUSE, with Pomegranate Publishing have been delighting children in North America and Europe.TEA PARTY features paper teapots, tea cups and saucers and lots of pretty tea treats to punch out and color, and three "stage sets" to color in front of which you can have pretend tea. MUSEUM VISIT has three gorgeous gallery spaces with punch out hooks on the walls, on which you can hang paintings you create, or punch out and color a variety of sculptures, armor or Natural History objects. And finally, FAIRY HOUSE (2018) contains two fairies, their house, furry and feathered friends, and lots of furniture and accessories to punch out and play with in front of three woodland scenes: a pretty garden, a fairy fashion atelier, and a cozy house.Margaret has also written art making books for adults: STENCIL CRAFT: TECHNIQUES FOR FASHION, ART AND HOME is full of techniques for making fun stuff with stencils (and making the stencils!), ALTERNATIVE ART JOURNALS: EXPLORE INNOVATIVE APPROACHES FOR COLLECTING YOUR CREATIVITY includes unusual journal techniques, such as the Faux Family Album, and the Card Set Journal. THE SUCCESSFUL ARTISTS CAREER GUIDE: FINDING YOUR WAY IN THE BUSINESS OF ART offers practical advice and interviews from visual artists who are successful in a variety of fields.Her art techniques book, MAKE YOUR MARK: EXPLORE YOUR CREATIVITY AND DISCOVER YOUR INNER ARTIST (Chronicle 2004) has found an audience with education and art therapy practitioners, and was voted one of Library Journal's best books of 2004, one of only four how-to books on the list.Margaret has taught workshops to children, young adults, and adults in New York public schools, libraries, to girl scouts, at senior centers, and at The Creative Center's Artist in Residency Training in NYC, the Creative Center's Creative Aging Training Conference, Huntsman Cancer Institute in Salt Lake City, and at Lake Placid Center for the Arts.Margaret has painted costumes for Broadway theater, dance, television and the circus for more than twenty-five years (for such shows as WICKED, THE LION KING, ALADDIN, FROZEN, and most recently MOULIN ROUGE) and has taught costume painting at BYU, Miami University, The USITT South conference, NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
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