Uma Wimple Charts Her House
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- $6.99
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
Hip, funny, unique--and a perfect curriculum tie-in--here's a picture book with mega kid-appeal about the challenges a student faces when she is given an assignment to make a chart of her own home!
Uma's been making charts since she was a little kid. But when her teacher gives the class Uma's dream assignment--to make a chart of their own homes--she is thrown for a loop. Oh, the possibilities! Oh, the pressure! What makes a house housey? she wonders. In order to figure it out, she asks each member of her family--Mom, Dad, and brothers Rex, Bram, and Lukey. But it's not until she has a meltdown and Lukey comforts her that Uma figures out the secret to her chart--and her family. It's the love that is shared inside a house's walls.
Told in first-person and featuring engaging graphic artwork, this fun and lively picture book--perfect for classroom use--is a reminder that someone's true home is not a place, but rather the people with whom you surround yourself.
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Uma loves to make charts, and Gibson (The Ghastly Dandies Do the Classics) shows her efforts in elementary school–style drawings: "When I was five, I made a chart of all the trees I passed on the way to school." There are more: a pizza pie chart of her family's topping preferences, a screen-time bar chart (her father exceeds the recommended number of hours). Pastel digital artwork with clean lines portrays the large white family that Larsen (I Am Radar, for adults) writes about: Uma, her parents, three brothers, and multiple pets. One day, Uma announces a new project—a strangely unclear "chart of our own home." But Uma is anxious instead of thrilled, unclear on how to "chart something so big, so important, so complicated." Tension accumulates as she asks her family what "makes a house housey," resulting in a meltdown that Lukey, her younger brother, talks her down from. "Nothing is impossible," he says, which is enough to get her going. As an introduction to the visual presentation of data and the creative process, it's a useful classroom adjunct. End papers include chart definitions and examples. Ages 4–8.
