Sugar and snails
This book is about the poem where girls are made of "sugar and spice and everything nice" and boys are made of "frogs and snails and puppy dog tails." When the traditional rhyme doesn't fit the little boy and girl visiting their grandpa, they come up with a list of unusual alternatives, challenging stereotypes about gender roles with whimsical lists of "ingredients."
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Boys > Juvenile fiction. Girls > Juvenile fiction. Grandfathers > Juvenile fiction. Canadian fiction. |
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Picture books. Fiction. |
- ISBN: 9781773210056
- Physical Description 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2018.
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Summary
Sugar and Snails
A novel twist to a classic rhyme. Who says that little girls are made of "sugar and spice and everything nice?" Or that boys are made of "frogs and snails and puppy dog tails?" What if girls were made of "boats and snails and dinosaur tails?" And little boys of "flowers and swings and bumblebee wings?"When the traditional rhyme just doesn't seem to fit the boy and girl visiting their grandpa, he comes up with a list of unusual alternatives. Soon the children are coming up with their own versions that challenge the old stereotypes with a whimsical list of ingredients. To add to the new quirky version are lively illustrations that beautifully capture the children's imaginative flights of fancy. Young readers will delight in the small details of Sonja Wimmer's vibrant art, and be inspired to think of their own silly examples of what ingredients they might be made of themselves.