Have You Read This One?

Recently I submitted my first book club order for the year and while looking through the brochure this book's cover illustration caught my attention.  

Quickly. 

Have you seen this one?  

I bought it simply because he looked so sassy and I just had to know 

the story with the red marker.  

I was not to be disappointed, either. 

 

When the book arrived, I didn't proofread it before sharing it with my young friends.  

(Isn't that terrible?)  

I thought with illustrations like this, it's GOT to be a winner.

And it was.  

Hands down one of my new favorites.

 

The day after we extended the book with this craft.  Aren't the results just beautiful?!

I love the little "lefty" Chester.  

My kiddos thoroughly enjoyed this project.  

They talked of nothing but "Chester" for the remainder of the afternoon.  

And since I'm trying to create life-long readers, I call that a success. 

If you're interested, I'll be posting the templates for this project

 by the end of the week.  

Happy Reading!