The Best Way to Play: A Little Bill Book for Beginning Readers, Level 3 (Oprah's Book Club)
by Bill Cosby
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Author: Bill CosbyIllustrator: Varnette Honeywood
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1997-09-01
ISBN: 0590956175
Number of pages: 40
Publisher: Cartwheel
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- ISBN13: 9780590956178
- Condition: New
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Book Reviews of The Best Way to Play: A Little Bill Book for Beginning Readers, Level 3 (Oprah's Book Club)
Book Review: Captivating to even reluctant readers--a genuine reward!
Summary: 5 Stars
Right off the bat, the illustrations make you want to read this "easy" [high-interest/limited vocabulary]book. Little Bill is an "everyboy" character whose life is enriched through interactions with his family, friends, and most of all--his own imagination! I use this book to teach character lessons to my 5th grade students and to get them hooked on reading, even though this book could be read independently by much younger students. This series is going into my personal literary treasure chest for my future grandchildren. It's like watching a great movie between the covers--far better than any old video game!
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Summary of The Best Way to Play: A Little Bill Book for Beginning Readers, Level 3 (Oprah's Book Club)
This easy-to-read story about friendship by comedian and storyteller Bill Cosby is now a Scholastic Reader!
Little Bill and his friends LOVE the TV show Space Explorers. And so when the new Space Explorers video game comes out, they each want a copy.
But when Little Bill asks his parents to buy him the game, they say no. So Little Bill and his friends go to their friend Andrew's house to play the game.
What they discover, though, is that the video game isn't nearly as much fun nor as challenging as what their imaginations can dream up!
Little Bill and his friends LOVE the TV show Space Explorers. And so when the new Space Explorers video game comes out, they each want a copy.
But when Little Bill asks his parents to buy him the game, they say no. So Little Bill and his friends go to their friend Andrew's house to play the game.
What they discover, though, is that the video game isn't nearly as much fun nor as challenging as what their imaginations can dream up!
Oprah Book ClubŪ Selection, December 1997: Well-loved comedian Bill Cosby encourages kids to get creative in this simple story of how your own imagination can take you farther into outer space--and help you chase more aliens--than any TV show or video game ever could. In The Best Way to Play--one of Cosby's three Little Bill books for emerging readers--Little Bill tells his story from a friendly, first-person point of view, starting Saturday morning, when "All of the grown-ups were busy doing grown-up things."
He and the neighborhood kids are watching TV when they see an ad for a Space Explorers video game that instantly infuses desperate longing into their alien-catching little hearts. When Little Bill's friend Andrew gets a copy, everyone is thrilled. However, after quickly catching 100 aliens and getting perfect scores, the kids are bored with the game. They head for their trusty vacant lot where they chase an alien that looks like a cat and proceed to fly all the way to the moon! (Or at least they pretend to.) When Little Bill confesses to his mom that it was more fun to play outside than with the game, she says, "I'm glad. Now go to sleep. Space Explorers need their rest." While the engaging, upbeat story itself escapes heavy-handedness, the message is clear, clear, clear. Varnette P. Honeywood's flat, boldly colorful illustrations are full of life and expression, and early readers will welcome the spacious format, with large type and only a few short sentences on every page. (Ages 5 to 8)
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