Hurry up! : a book about slowing down / written by Kate Dopirak ; illustrated by Christopher Silas Neal.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781534424975
- ISBN: 1534424970
- Physical Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Beach Lane Books, [2020]
Content descriptions
Target Audience Note: | Ages 4-8. Beach Lane Books. Grades 2-3. Beach Lane Books. AD230L Lexile Decoding demand: 58 (medium) Semantic demand: 57 (medium) Syntactic demand: 18 (very low) Structure demand: 67 (high) Lexile |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Dogs > Juvenile fiction. Mindfulness (Psychology) > Juvenile fiction. |
Genre: | Stories in rhyme. |
Available copies
- 12 of 12 copies available at Missouri Evergreen.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Crawford County. (Show)
Holds
- 0 current holds with 12 total copies.
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Crawford County Library-Recklein Memorial-Cuba | E DOP (Text) | 33431000468833 | Easy Reader | Available | - |
Camden County Library District - Sunrise Beach | E DOPIRAK (Text) | 31320003749806 | Easy Books | Available | - |
Cape Girardeau Public Library | DO (Text) | 33042004724376 | Juvenile Picture Books | Available | - |
Jefferson County Library-Arnold | E ME DOPIRAK (Text) | 30061030199596 | Easy Books | Available | - |
Jefferson County Library-Northwest | E ME DOPIRAK (Text) | 30000024787131 | Easy Books | Available | - |
Morgan County Library | E DOP (Text) | 35319000148349 | Children's Fiction | Available | - |
Polk County Library-Morrisville | P DOPIRA (Text) | 34531000196449 | Picture Books | Available | - |
Scenic Regional-Hermann | E DOPIR (Text) | 3006920732 | Easy Book | Available | - |
St. Joseph - East Hills Library | E DOP (Text) | 32002005201973 | Easy Book | Available | - |
Webster County-Main Library-Marshfield | E KID LIFE Dopirak (Text) | 3991241062 | * Childrens Picture Books | Available | - |
Publishers Weekly Review
Hurry Up! : A Book about Slowing Down
Publishers Weekly
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Kids aren't exempt from fast-paced living, especially not the brown-skinned child who stars in this prescription for downtime by the late Dopirak (Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Car). Neal (From Tree to Sea) visualizes its opening words with images of the child dashing down the stairs and out to the bus: "Hurry up!/ Hurry down./ Hurry round and round... and round." At school, the classroom teems with activity ("Hurry here!/ Hurry there!/ Hurry, scurry everywhere!"), and the sprint continues back home, snarled by the family pup tugging at a shoelace. Out for a walk, child and dog continue at the breakneck pace until "STOP!" appears in large letters across the sky, a message from the universe. A page turn reveals a world transformed and on pause. Everything is green as child and pup watch a snail ("Slow things down"), and a tossed stick tumbles lazily end over end before reaching the leaping dog ("Take a break"). A long, luxurious afternoon ends at dusk as the pair head home. Neal's visual pacing takes readers from frenetic activity to solitary moonlit slumber in one smooth arc, embodying the shift to calm that all creatures crave--and need. Ages up to 8. Author's agent: Tracey Adams, Adams Literary. Illustrator's agent: Stephen Barr, Writers House. (May)
Kirkus Review
Hurry Up! : A Book about Slowing Down
Kirkus Reviews
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A child learns to change the pace in this playful picture book. A brown-skinned child with energetic, straight hair wakes to "hurry up," flies down the stairs, backpack in tow, and out the door to the school bus. At school, children of various racial presentations "hurry here. / Hurry there. / Hurry, scurry everywhere!" Leaving school, getting home, starting homework, and taking the dog out all happen in a hurry--until the child and dog reach a meadow and "STOP. // Slow things down." Looking closely at nature and the landscape, playing fetch, and exploring until the sun goes down become ways to slow it down, right through bedtime. The spare, rhyming text is fun to read aloud, and it conveys a too-familiar feeling of helter-skelter frenzy that settles into a friendlier pace suited to attention to the world and then relaxation. The illustrations use rows of chairs, rows of houses, crowds of children, and flying papers to represent chaos, competition, and stress, then close-ups, panoramic views, and saturated colors to show the sources of calm and restorative slowness. This story is sure to strike a chord with many a modern family; it's a wonderful addition to a bedtime collection to settle in with at the end of a hectic day. Hurry up and buy this charming book. (Picture book. 3-8) Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.