Tell Me Zachariah OHora Jabari Jumps and The Day

Jabari Jumps and The Day You Begin

so she sets off on a perilous journey

a 2007 Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year

With inspiring text and stunning illustrations by Nikkolas Smith

Explore parks around the world--and how they welcome us--in this gorgeously illustrated nonfiction picture book

Tell Me Zachariah OHora Jabari Jumps and The DayThere is a correlation between the richness of the reading environment in which readers live and the richness of their talk about what they've read. In any group of children we find that if they begin by sharing their most obvious observations they soon accumulate a body of understanding that reveals the heart of a text and its meaning(s) for them all. Talking about a book helps a child find the heart of a story, make sense of a string of facts, and