Outstanding in the Rain, A Whole Story with Holes

Here’s a really fun book for all you creative types….

Title: Outstanding in the Rain, A Whole Story with Holes
Written and Illustrated by: Frank Viva
Little, Brown and Co., 2015, Fiction
Suitable for ages: 3-6
Themes/topics: amusement park, birthday, wordplay

Opening: “Ice cream,” I say, my birthday surprise!
“Oh no!” I scream, with tears in my eyes.

Brief synopsis: A boy celebrates his fourth birthday with his mother at Coney Island.

Links to resources:
Activity page featuring wordplay is posted on the Parent/Teacher Resource page.

Why I like this book: SO creative! I love books that play with words, and this book not only plays with their sounds, but the graphic forms of the words as well. Each spread contains a hole that transforms words from one page to the next, and also the illustration. The wordplay does restrict the text though, resulting in a story that doesn’t sing as you might hope. But the fun of the holes definitely makes it worth spending some time exploring its pages.

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isted by title and topic/theme, each with teacher/parent resources.