The next morning, Penny takes the marble back to Mrs. That night she has a nightmare about the marble. Her stomach hurts a little and she isn’t hungry. The rest of the day, Penny can’t stop thinking about the marble. Penny wonders if she is looking for the marble. While admiring the marble, she notices Mrs.
Penny puts the marble in her pocket and races home. While going for a walk with her doll on the sidewalk, Penny sees a shiny, blue marble in Mrs. Then the name Rose comes to Penny while she is in the garden. When Papa asks what the doll’s name is, Penny doesn’t have an answer. While Mama is weeding the garden and Penny is smelling the roses, a box arrives for Penny. After, everyone is sleepy and goes to bed. She wants to sing it at dinner, but Mama says “Not at the table.” Finally, after dinner she sings her song and then everyone joins in. She wants to sing it for someone, but the babies are sleeping. The first book is called “Penny and Her Song”. In this second easy reader about Penny, Henkes continues to give children reasons to want to read, long after the satisfaction of learning how to has passed, by offering a fine story, memorable characters, and a chance to puzzle through a universal childhood experience right alongside a sympathetic protagonist.įrom the September/October 2012 issue of The Horn Book Magazine.Adventures of Penny is actually three early reader books put into one.
‘I will find a name for you’”), and there’s a literary sophistication not often found in books for this age, with wordplay exchanged between Penny and her mother as they work in the garden and subtle clues that allow readers to make predictions about the doll’s eventual moniker. The language is natural (“‘Don’t worry,’ she said. The illustrations are varied, not only supporting the text but also adding some character development, such as when Penny systematically shows her new doll around the house.
The doll had a pink dress with big buttons.” But what to name her? As Penny spends three brief and accessible chapters wondering what to call this most lovely doll, Henkes gently guides readers through the process. Gram sends mouse Penny a doll: “The doll had pink cheeks. 3/12) Henkes doesn’t take that task lightly. Naming things, whether children, pets, or toys, is serious business, and in this follow-up to Penny and Her Song (rev.
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