Amazing Grace (World Book Day) [Paperback]

Grace rightly thinks she can be anything or anyone she wants to be: Joan of Arc, Hiawatha, Helen of Troy, Mowgli from The Jungle Book... and Peter Pan in the school play. But when her classmates tell her she can't play Peter Pan because she's a girl, and because she's black, Grace gets downhearted. When Grace's grandmother proves, through a positive black role model, that Grace really can be anyone she wants to be, Grace believes in herself once more--just in time for the auditions.

Amazing Grace is a modern tale of hopes, aspirations and role models, that is pitched perfectly for the very young reader. Simple language describes an everyday situation that transforms Grace into an extraordinary girl. A wonderful, hopeful, and yet realistic, story for today's children. --Lucie Naylor

Amazon.co.uk Teacher Review
Children need to read at home every day to practise the reading skills that they have been taught. Here are some tips to help make Amazing Grace part of your child's reading routine:

• choose a time when you and your child both want to read, sit somewhere comfortable and quiet.
• before you begin to read, get a "feel" for the book by looking at the cover, front and back and talking about it.
• let your child hold the book and turn the pages. Look at the pictures.
• look for the little details--they help the child to understand what the book is about.
• let your child "read" the book to you by talking about each picture.
• read the book again and again if you both enjoy it.

If used to support learning at home, Amazing Grace can help young readers achieve the targets for Key Stage One English: Reading. (Ages 5 to 9 years) --Amanda York --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

This was a groundbreaking book about race and gender when it was first published, and it remains an absolute standard - brilliantly told with superb artwork. (The Ultimate First Book Guide )

Provides an opening for talking about race, gender and self-esteem with young children. (Julia Eccleshare 1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up ) --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

"One of the outstanding picture books of the year" (Financial Times)

"Caroline Binch's beautiful and vigorous illustrations powerfully project the image of Grace who, with the support of her mother and grandmother, discovers that you can do anything you want to." (Children's Books of the Year) --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Grace loves to act out stories. When her school decides to do "Peter Pan", Grace longs to play Peter, but classmates say that Peter was a boy, and besides, he wasn't black. But her mum says she can do anything if she puts her mind to it.

REVIEWS FOR AMAZING GRACE
"One of the outstanding picture books of the year". Financial TImes "Caroline Binch's beautiful and viorous illustrations powerfully project the image of Grace, who, with the support of her mother and grandmother, discovers that you can do anything you want to" Children's Books of the Year 1992 --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

"One of the outstanding books of the year" --Financial Times

"Caroline Binch's beautiful and vigorous illustrations powerfully project the image of Grace who, with the support of her mother and grandmother, discovers that you can do anything you want to". --Children's Book of the Year 1992

Shortlisted for the 1992 Kate Greenaway Medal --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Mary Hoffman has written around 90 books for children. Amazing Grace, commended for the Kate Greenaway medal, has sold over 1.5 million copies. Its sequel, Grace & Family was among Junior Education's Best Books of 1995 and shortlisted for the Sheffield Libraries Book Award 1996.

To visit Mary Hoffman's website click here

Caroline Binch's illustrations for Hue Boy, written by Rita Phillips Mitchell, won the Smarties Prize. She illustrated the bestselling story Amazing Grace and several other Grace stories by Mary Hoffman. Gregory Cool, which Caroline wrote and illustrated, was shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal, and her Since Dad Left won the United Kingdom Book Award in 1998.

To visit Caroline's website click here --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.