They have some poems about service dogs, teaching someone the correct stance in baseball, training a service dog, giving up your seat on a bus, donating your hair for wigs and even writing a letter to a solder (which was probably my favorite one). The collection features different poems about lending a hand, but it also includes various situations of people being kind. It focuses on the little acts of kindness that can touch peoples' hearts and make a difference in the world. This book is made up of various poems about kindness and helping others out when they need help. 'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title.Annotated Bibliography Entry: Lend a Hand by John Frank Ages 5-9.Ĭopyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. Karas ( Into This Night We Are Rising ) reflects Alvy's playfulness in his art, an exuberant mix of fanciful renderings in gouaches, pencils and acrylics photos and what he describes as 'some of his endless supply of junk.' An imaginative production, resulting in high-velocity high jinks. Imitating Alvy's movements, the type is set in various fonts, sizes and colors, and printed diagonally or in curves or in fitful zigzags. When the recess bell rings one day, he puts a steering wheel on his desk and zooms out of the classroom, outside the school, up the street, past a group of tough-looking bikers, to his own front door, nearly into an approaching train, up into the air and back to school-all before class reconvenes.

Alvy, the quiet boy who sits in the back of the classroom, has a knack for inventing things out of the miscellany he keeps in his desk. Inventive use of type and collages made from 'odds 'n' ends' vivifies debut author Frank's quirky fantasy romp. 5-9) - Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. But audacious print treatment doesn't make up for the story's triviality, while the hooliganism of its logic (the desk stops at Alvy's door but not for a speeding train) will make readers ready to abandon the rickety ride. Readers ready for Alvy's glorious creations get only one for more excitement, they'll have to look to the varied typefaces in the imaginatively chaotic collage. But while the art startles and delights, the storyline bolts and jolts. In one witty scene, Alvy's bulky crayoned figure contrasts with the photo of a businessman.

Karas combines photo images with zany cartoons the desk leaves tread marks on a crayon and watercolor playground, then zips into a real cityscape. Thus begins a frantic getaway, including encounters with bikers and a strongman plus a stop at home to feed the dog. Alvy has a reputation as transformer of salvaged objects still, his classmates are astonished when his souped-up desk zooms away during recess.

Odds 'N' Ends Alvy by John Frank