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billie's great desert adventure

5/7/2017

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"Mom, can we read Billie and Jack go on a trip?" Josh has asked me this every couple days since we got this book - and I'm happy to oblige. :) I picked up Billie's Great Desert Adventure, written by Sally Rippen and published by Kane Miller, when it was one of our customer specials. I wasn't quite sure what to expect, not having read any of this series, but I was pleasantly surprised!

The Billie's Adventures series is a spinoff of the Billie B. Brown series - a group of short chapter books designed to help kids get used to the idea of reading chapters. Billie is in early elementary school, and her best friend Jack has a parallel series (see Hey Jack!). The adventure spinoff is still about Billie and Jack, but when they are in pre-school. No chapters, just picture books.

In this story, Billie is dropped off at preschool on a rainy day. She wants to play outside with her puddle-stomping boots but is disappointed when her teacher tells her it's too wet and suggests reading instead. Grumpy, Billie hides herself in a pile of cushions, not wanting to play with anyone, even Jack. But Jack comes over anyway and says, "cool! a cave!" And with that, Billie and Jack are off on an imaginary adventure of caves and treasure and thieves and magic carpets. 

When Billie and Jack return to their preschool room, you see that they are surrounded by books, two of which show a magic lantern and a flying carpet. It's a great way to highlight they way kids can play make-believe... and how books can help them do it! You get a glimpse of this imaginative world even on the front cover, which shows Billie on her magic carpet but has a peek-through to the inside front page, which shows Billie sitting on a table, talking to Jack. The connection is subtle, but enough to spark a conversation with your little readers about how they can play make-believe, too!
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It's that book that models imaginative play through an enchanting story.

Book benefits: 
  • The fun adventure keeps kids engaged
  • Large text helps young readers pick out familiar words
  • The story models using books to spark imagination
  • Sturdy hardcover binding will stand up to many, many re-readings!
Order Billie's Desert Adventure here! (hardcover, $10.99)
And check out the other books in Billie's adventure series: underwater, wild jungle, and bakery

Also available - these are series, but each book has a self-contained plot: 
  • The Billie B. Brown series (15 chapter books in the collection, young elementary)
  • The Hey Jack! series (15 chapter books about Billie's best friend, young elementary)
  • Billie's mystery series (6 chapter books, slightly older)
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    Hi there! I'm Christine - Usborne Books & More independent consultant, kids' book fan, English teacher, mom of two boys. 


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