Uncle HollandAuthor :
Hardback
Published : Thursday 25 May 2017
Description
From the international best-selling author of Sidewalk Flowers and the illustrator of The King of the Birds, a picture book about crime, punishmentâ?▌and art. When Holland is arrested for the thirty-seventh time for stealing beautiful things, he must make a very difficult decision. A police officer says that he must either go to jail or become a soldier. He chooses to join the army and is sent south, where he finds himself surrounded by beautiful things: palm trees, parrots, flowers and big blue wavesâ?▌and fish! Holland starts painting pictures of the fish, which he sells at the market on the weekend. Soon, he has money to send home to his parents. They are worried that heâ?Ts gone back to his stealing ways, so his father writes to ask if he earned the money honestly. Holland writes back to reassure him that he has decided to paint instead of steal because â?onot everything thatâ?Ts pretty can be stuffed in your pockets!â??Based on a true story about JonArno Lawsonâ?Ts uncle, and accompanied by Natalie Nelsonâ?Ts collage illustrations, this quirky picture book is about making choices â?" and art. Key Text Featuresauthorâ?Ts notetrue storyCorrelates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.3Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.1Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
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