{"id":2912,"date":"2011-03-28T22:54:01","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T02:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=2912"},"modified":"2011-03-28T22:54:01","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T02:54:01","slug":"review-of-balancing-act-by-ellen-stoll-walsh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=2912","title":{"rendered":"Review of Balancing Act, by Ellen Stoll Walsh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/balancing_act.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/balancing_act.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"balancing_act\" width=\"160\" height=\"133\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3279\" \/><\/a><em>Balancing Act<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Ellen Stoll Walsh<\/p>\n<p>Beach Lane Books (Simon &#038; Schuster), New York, 2010.  32 pages.<\/p>\n<p>Ellen Stoll Walsh is brilliant at explaining basic concepts to the very youngest readers.  Her earlier book <em>Mouse Paint<\/em> is justifiably called &#8220;a modern classic,&#8221; demonstrating mice mixing colors in a simple, easily understandable way.<\/p>\n<p><em>Balancing Act<\/em> shows how balancing works in a way that even toddlers will be able to absorb.  First, two mice balance on opposite ends of a stick.  Then a lizard joins them, throwing off the balance &#8212; but when the lizard&#8217;s friend comes, balance is restored.  Then comes a frog, and a friend.<\/p>\n<p>When a big, heavy bird comes, it looks like their game is done &#8212; until all the other creatures get on the other side.  That works great &#8212; until the stick breaks.<\/p>\n<p>There are only a few words on each page, used in a way to captivate readers (&#8220;Uh-oh!  A frog.&#8221;), so this book will work with the very youngest children, just beginning to understand that books tell a story.<\/p>\n<p>Balance is a Math concept and a Science concept, but learning this concept is disguised in a lovely story with fun use of language that preschoolers will simply enjoy.  A definite win!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1442407573\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\">Sonderbooks<\/a> at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Picture_Books\/balancing_act.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Picture_Books\/balancing_act.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Disclosure: I am an Amazon Affiliate, and will earn a small percentage if you order a book on Amazon after clicking through from my site.<\/p>\n<p>Source: This review is based on a library book from the Fairfax County Public Library.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"none\" data-via=\"Sonderbooks\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Balancing Act by Ellen Stoll Walsh Beach Lane Books (Simon &#038; Schuster), New York, 2010. 32 pages. Ellen Stoll Walsh is brilliant at explaining basic concepts to the very youngest readers. Her earlier book Mouse Paint is justifiably called &#8220;a modern classic,&#8221; demonstrating mice mixing colors in a simple, easily understandable way. Balancing Act shows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,98,27,15,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-characters","category-good-for-the-very-young","category-mathematical","category-picture-book-review","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}