Edith pattou west5/29/2023 The simple plot involves a large balloon that Otto kindly shares with Pip after the mouse has a rather funny pointing attack. In his third beginning reader about Otto the robot, Milgrim ( See Otto, 2002, etc.) introduces another new friend for Otto, a little mouse named Pip. Lucky the reader, of any age, who had a Mrs. Pattou’s language is simple but artful, keeping mawkishness at bay, while conveying a deep appreciation of the fine art of teaching. Ultimately the season comes to a close, but the plants keep on growing, now beyond the care of Mrs. Tusa picks up the metaphor with characteristic ingenuity and charm, depicting a gray-haired but young-looking woman, comfortably dressed, leaving a well-stocked kindergarten classroom to tend a swelling garden of flowers and vegetables, each sporting eyes, a smiling mouth, and a look of eager interest. Spitzer plants, water, weeds, and tends each seedling, she delights in their individuality: tall and thin, bushy and wide-spreading, quick to grow or slow, showy or reticent. Well yes, for this is a metaphorical garden, and as Mrs. Spitzer’s room and gives her a packet of seeds.” The end of summer? wonders the alert reader. Merrick, the principal, walks down the hall to Mrs. A very loving book, a tribute really, to the teachers of the world and beyond them to all people who nurture children.
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