Amazing Grace - Softcover

Mary Hoffman Caroline Binch

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0590460099 ISBN 13: 9780590460095

Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks, 1993

Synopsis

Grace loves to act out stories. When her school decides to do "Peter Pan", Grace longs to play Peter, but classmates say that Peter was a boy, and besides, he wasn't black. But her mum says she can do anything if she puts her mind to it.

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Review

Grace rightly thinks she can be anything or anyone she wants to be: Joan of Arc, Hiawatha, Helen of Troy, Mowgli from The Jungle Book... and Peter Pan in the school play. But when her classmates tell her she can't play Peter Pan because she's a girl, and because she's black, Grace gets downhearted. When Grace's grandmother proves, through a positive black role model, that Grace really can be anyone she wants to be, Grace believes in herself once more--just in time for the auditions.

Amazing Grace is a modern tale of hopes, aspirations and role models, that is pitched perfectly for the very young reader. Simple language describes an everyday situation that transforms Grace into an extraordinary girl. A wonderful, hopeful, and yet realistic, story for today's children. --Lucie Naylor

Amazon.co.uk Teacher Review
Children need to read at home every day to practise the reading skills that they have been taught. Here are some tips to help make Amazing Grace part of your child's reading routine:

• choose a time when you and your child both want to read, sit somewhere comfortable and quiet.
• before you begin to read, get a "feel" for the book by looking at the cover, front and back and talking about it.
• let your child hold the book and turn the pages. Look at the pictures.
• look for the little details--they help the child to understand what the book is about.
• let your child "read" the book to you by talking about each picture.
• read the book again and again if you both enjoy it.

If used to support learning at home, Amazing Grace can help young readers achieve the targets for Key Stage One English: Reading. (Ages 5 to 9 years) --Amanda York

Review

"One of the outstanding picture books of the year" (Financial Times)

"Caroline Binch's beautiful and vigorous illustrations powerfully project the image of Grace who, with the support of her mother and grandmother, discovers that you can do anything you want to." (Children's Books of the Year) -- Reviews

About this edition

• Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0590460099
• ISBN 13: 9780590460095
• Binding: Paperback