Marcia Trimble
Images Press
www.images-press.com
650-948-8251
27920 Roble Alto
Los Altos Hills, CA 94022
This is a book for children aged 4-8 and deals with a little girl named Malinda Martha enjoying the beach. The story takes you through her day. Her mother gives her some pretty stones and tells her they are for skipping. Then the family eats breakfast.
Malinda Martha plays on the beach after breakfast and uses the stones for decorating her sand sculptures. While she is eating lunch, the tide washes away her sand creations, but the stones are left behind. Malinda Martha then uses the stones for skipping on the water. The story is a little disjointed. Some transitions are just missing. The story was not really very interesting and just did not come together in my opinion.
There are some lovely illustrations in the book. The best part of the whole book was the poem at the beginning. It gave me high hopes for the rest of the story, but unfortunately they did not materialize.
On the Images Press website there is a downloadable PDF script of the story so that you can have a play. This is a nice feature that will help homeschool parents enhance their child's learning experience. I am impressed with the Images Press website and the fact that they offer additional resources along with their books to help to round out the learning experience. It would be well worth your time to take some time to explore the website and the resources available there.
Product review by Christine Hindle, The Old Schoolhouse® Magazine, LLC, March 2010
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