See+Me+Run


 * Book Review **
 * Bibliographical Data **
 * ** Title: “ ** See Me Run” by Paul Meisel
 * ** Publisher: ** Holiday House, Inc. (March 2012)
 * ** Cost: ** $14.95 (hard cover)
 * ** ISBN ** : 978-0-8234-2349-1 (hard cover)
 * ** Pages: ** 13
 * ** Age Range: ** beginning readers- ages 3-6
 * ** Language: ** English

“See Me Run” is about a dog that has a fun day at the dog park filled with different activities. He runs, plays in the mud, takes a bath, digs, and finds a dinosaur skeleton. This is an easy-to-read picture book.
 * Summary: **

I love this book! The illustrations in this book are very colorful, detailed, and child friendly. The pictures could tell the story all by themselves. I like how there are simple sentences in addition to the pictures, because the sentences help teach children how to read. I also like how it repeats certain words such as, “run,” “come,” “no,” “mud,” “dig,” and “it is.” This helps to teach students basic vocabulary by having them repeat specific words over and over throughout the story. I think this book is a great beginner reader book, and it could be used to teach a lesson on friendship and playing. I would definitely recommend this book to teachers and parents for beginner readers.
 * Book Review: **

Paul Meisel lives in Connecticut with his wife. He has three sons and spends much of his time in his studio where he writes children’s books. In the studio Meisel spends time with his labradoodle, Coco. Coco inspired him to write his book “See Me Run”, because she is always digging up his lawn and garden and chasing the deer and squirrels that come into his yard. His most recent book “See Me Run” won a 2012 Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor. Meisel attended Wesleyan University, where he received a BA for fine arts. During this time he did a lot of painting, drawing, and printmaking. He spent his junior year of college at the Tyler School of Art in Rome and then went on to Yale University where he received an MFA in graphic design. After college Meisel and his wife moved to New York City where he worked as a graphic designer and then shorty after he started his illustration career. During this time he mostly did editorial work for places such as New York Times, Boston Globe, and the Harvard Business Review. Around the time of the birth of his oldest son he began to illustrate children’s books, and since then he has continued to do so. Meisel is currently working on a sequel to “See Me Run” which involves lots of dogs, and a lot more digging. He is considering titling it “See Me Dig”. He also recently signed with the Andrea Brown Literacy Agency.
 * Author Biography: **

Paul Meisel uses very colorful, detailed, and child friendly illustrations in the story “See Me Run.” Although there are simple sentences to go along with these illustrations if the sentences were eliminated the illustrations alone could tell the story. Meisel uses images to explain what is going on in the story, and to show the friendships the main character (dog) makes on his adventures in the dog park. The illustrations are so colorful and child friendly that they easily keep children interested in the story, and help to portray what is going on in each scene. For an example, in the beginning scene there is a picture of a dog running away from other dogs. Another example would be when the dogs play in the mud there is a picture of all the dogs swimming and playing in a huge mud pile, and they are all covered in dirt. The illustrations allow the reader to picture what is being said in the text, and further clarify what the book is about. The illustrations in “See Me Run” along with the simple sentences are definitely appealing to children and also help to aid them in literacy development.
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