Give Us a Great Big Smile, Rosy Cole

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GIVE US A GREAT BIG SMILE, ROSY COLE by Sheila Greenwald
Rosy Cole's got trouble—BIG trouble—that began on her tenth birthday. Actually, it began when her sisters turned ten, and Uncle Ralph, the photographer, did books about them. One was called Anitra Dances and the other Pippa Prances. Now it's Rosy's turn.
The problem is Rosy doesn't do anything—not anything worth writing a book about, anyway. Uncle Ralph decides to make Rosy and her violin famous. But everyone (except Uncle Ralph) knows Rosy can't play! How can Rosy keep Uncle Ralph happy without making enemies of everyone she knows?
'This book should be required reading for most teachers, and all parents. Those few pages are delightful, entrancing, accurate, and perceptive. How much better many young lives would be were teachers and parents able to do, on their own, what Rosy finally found it necessary to do in the middle of Central Park. Long live Rosy Cole!"
—Isaac Stern
"Hilarious scenes build a funny story that... Tovább

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GIVE US A GREAT BIG SMILE, ROSY COLE by Sheila Greenwald
Rosy Cole's got trouble—BIG trouble—that began on her tenth birthday. Actually, it began when her sisters turned ten, and Uncle Ralph, the photographer, did books about them. One was called Anitra Dances and the other Pippa Prances. Now it's Rosy's turn.
The problem is Rosy doesn't do anything—not anything worth writing a book about, anyway. Uncle Ralph decides to make Rosy and her violin famous. But everyone (except Uncle Ralph) knows Rosy can't play! How can Rosy keep Uncle Ralph happy without making enemies of everyone she knows?
'This book should be required reading for most teachers, and all parents. Those few pages are delightful, entrancing, accurate, and perceptive. How much better many young lives would be were teachers and parents able to do, on their own, what Rosy finally found it necessary to do in the middle of Central Park. Long live Rosy Cole!"
—Isaac Stern
"Hilarious scenes build a funny story that succeeds through believable, clever dialogue and the author's innate sense of children's emotions and behavior Decorated with amusing line drawings and set with large type in a young format, this nevertheless will find wide appreciation—especially with anyone who has suffered through an adult's high expectations." —Booklist (Starred review)
"A cheerful, zesty story with a potential for wide appeal." —School Library Journal
" the author never loses touch with her heroine, a refreshingly ordinary child whose basic good sense saves he: from the foibles of adults." —Horn Book
An ALA Notable Book
SHEILA GREENWALD makes her home with her husband and two teen-age sons in New York where she has lived all her life. The author-illustrator of twelve books for children, she has illustrated more than fifty others. Her book/A//f/7e Way to Wits'End'\s available in a Yearling edition, and It All Began with Jane Erye: Or, the Secret Life of Franny Diilman is available in a Laurel-Leaf edition.
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