Description
Author: deGroat, Diane
Brand: Harpercollins
Edition: Illustrated
Format: Picture Book
Package Dimensions: 6x249x136
Number Of Pages: 32
Release Date: 20-01-1997
Details: Product Description
This Valentine’s Day favorite read-aloud will prompt lots of giggles, as well as discussions on kindness and forgiveness.
Gilbert is all set to write fifteen friendly valentine cards to his classmates. But how can he write a nice poem for the boy who tweaked his nose, or the girl who made fun of his glasses? Instead, Gilbert writes two not-so-nice valentines…and signs the wrong name on both!
When his classmates read his poems, their feelings are hurt, and Gilbert’s prank quickly turns into pandemonium. But with the help of a friend and an honest apology, there’s always time for a change of heart on Valentine’s Day.
Review
“The hostility is finally turned around with good humor and with lots of nonsense and forgiveness…. Kids will enjoy all the rhymes, and they’ll want to make up their own playfulparodies both mushy and mean.” — “Booklist””Human foibles, humorously yet accurately revealed, are given practical, realistic, nondidactic solutions.” — “School Library Journal.”
From the Back Cover
When Gilbert writes two not-so-nice valentines to his classmates, his prank quickly turns into pandemonium. But there’s always time for a change of heart on Valentine’s Day.
About the Author
Diane deGroat is the illustrator of more than 120 children’s books and the author-illustrator of bestselling books about Gilbert, including Ants in Your Pants, Worms in Your Plants! (Gilbert Goes Green); April Fool! Watch Out at School!; Mother, You’re the Best! (But Sister, You’re a Pest!); Last One in Is a Rotten Egg!; and the New York Times bestseller Roses Are Pink, Your Feet Really Stink. Diane lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Diane deGroat is the illustrator of more than 120 children’s books and the author-illustrator of bestselling books about Gilbert, including Ants in Your Pants, Worms in Your Plants! (Gilbert Goes Green); April Fool! Watch Out at School!; Mother, You’re the Best! (But Sister, You’re a Pest!); Last One in Is a Rotten Egg!; and the New York Times bestseller Roses Are Pink, Your Feet Really Stink. Diane lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
There they were, fifteen black valentine cards waiting to be filled with nice valentine poems. They were sitting on the kitchen table in a pile as high as Gilbert’s nose. Mrs. Byrd had told them to write something nice for each classmate, because Valentine’s Day was about liking each other.
Gilbert liked Patty a lot. She had smiley eyes and a silly laugh that made Gilbert feel silly, too. He picked out the biggest card and wrote inside:
Roses are red,violets are blue.Your eyes are nice,and I like you.Gilbert
Gilbert also liked Frank. Frank let Gilbert use his baseball mitt once when Gilbert forgot to bring his own. On Frank’s card he wrote:
Your name is Frank.It isn’t Hank.You lent me your mitt,so you I thank.Gilbert
This is fun, Gilbert thought. He continued to write nice valentine poems until there were two cards left. One for Lewis and one for Margaret.
Gilbert didn’t want to write a nice poem for Lewis. Lewis once tweaked Gilbert’s nose until it turned red.
He didn’t want to write a nice poem for Margaret, either. Margaret made fun of Gilbert’s glasses.
…So he didn’t write nice poems.
UPC: 884488124881
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