Children's Fiction Poetry (see Also Stories In Verse)
Our Corner Store
- Publisher
- Groundwood Books Ltd
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2020
- Category
- Poetry (see also Stories in Verse), Business, Careers, Occupations, Stories in Verse
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781773062167
- Publish Date
- Apr 2020
- List Price
- $16.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781773062174
- Publish Date
- Apr 2020
- List Price
- $14.95
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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Age: 6 to 9
- Grade: 1 to 4
- Reading age: 6 to 9
Description
This delightful novel in verse follows the adventures of a brother and sister around the neighborhood, and especially at the corner grocery store!
Race you to our corner grocery store!
Stanstones’ corner store is the heart of the neighborhood for the brother and sister in this story. They help to close the store every Saturday and save their pennies to buy candy. The store is the source of many adventures, where they spend a memorably spooky Halloween, play tricks on Mr. and Mrs. Stanstones, and form a search party to find Toby the store cat when he goes missing. What will happen to their beloved corner store when a brand-new supermarket opens up in town?
Full of humor and playful language, this novel in verse is a sweetly nostalgic celebration of a time when children had more freedom and a mom-and-pop corner store might be the center of a kid’s world. Based on Robert Heidbreder’s childhood, this follow-up to Rooster Summer can be read as a sequel or a stand-alone story. Chelsea O’Byrne’s vibrant illustrations bring the corner store and its colorful cast of characters to life.
Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.4
Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.
About the authors
Robert Heidbreder was born in Illinois but now lives in British Columbia. He has enchanted children with his joyful poems and rhymes for more than two decades. A former elementary school teacher (and winner of the Prime Minister's Award for Teaching Excellence), he believes that children's love of silly and absurd combinations of words makes them natural poets. His books include Eenie Meenie Manitoba, Don't Eat Spiders, I Wished for a Unicorn, Drumheller Dinosaur Dance, Python Play, See Saw Saskatchewan, Crocodiles Say, A Sea-Wishing Day, Lickety-Split, Crocodiles Play, Shake-Awakes, Noisy Poems for a Busy Day, Black and Bittern Was Night and Song for a Summer Night.
Robert Heidbreder's profile page
CHELSEA O’BYRNE is a freelance illustrator and art instructor based in Vancouver, BC. She graduated from Emily Carr University with a BFA in illustration. She has also illustrated Hello, Crow! written by Candace Savage, and Marisa and the Mountains, written by George M. Johnson.
Awards
- Short-listed, David Booth Children’s and Youth Poetry Award
- Commended, A Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s Book of the Year
- Commended, CBC Books Best Canadian Picture Books
Editorial Reviews
A free-spirited, warmly nostalgic vision.
Kirkus Reviews
Today’s readers of Our Corner Store may find themselves envying and wishing for the freedom that their parents and grandparents enjoyed during these earlier times. …Highly Recommended.
CM: Canadian Review of Materials
[A] gorgeous book in verse.
Book Riot
It will bring back memories of pre-shopping-mall days for many adults, while its poems will appeal to young readers ages six to nine.
Winnipeg Free Press
A whimsical novel in verse for older elementary and younger middle school collections.
School Library Journal
