Hattie

by Frida Nilsson, Stina Wirsén

Overview

Hattie is a street-smart country girl in her first year of school. She lives just outside of nowhere, right next to no one at all. Luckily she's starting school and that brings new adventures.

Hattie gets her first swimming badge, falls madly in love with a hermit crab, and meets a best friend. Sometimes things go wrong—like when the hairdresser cuts her hair into stumps just in time for school photos.

Hattie is funny, lively and sympathetic chapter book, perfect for reading aloud and for newly independent readers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781776572724
Publisher:	Gecko Press
Publication date:	05/01/2020
Series:	Hattie
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	NOOK Book
Pages:	160
File size:	4 MB
Age Range:	8 - 9 Years

About the Author

Frida Nilsson is a leading Swedish author, who has been an August Prize nominee three times and won the Astrid Lindgren Prize in 2014.

Stina Wirsén is one of Sweden's most popular children's book illustrators. She has illustrated and written numerous books of different genres that have been published all over the world and dramatized on stage and TV.

Editorial Reviews

"A young mischief-maker manages to get herself out of mishaps. Six-year-old Hattie lives with her loving parents in a red house in Sweden. Their town is 'far out in the middle of nowhere.' Hattie loves that she's started school. She rides on the bus, does well, and makes friends. Each brief chapter in this gently comical novel describes various escapades Hattie gets up to, often alone, sometimes with her best pal. Readers will be intrigued by Hattie's adventures and will note that each one offers a glimpse into her conscience and lively, persevering personality. Not coincidentally, the incidents advance Hattie's character development, though she remains a child her age. Like most kids, Hattie can be peevish, has a playful, creative imagination, enjoys testing her limits, and doesn't usually foresee or understand the consequences of impulsivity. Still, when events don't conclude the way she'd hoped or planned, Hattie gets sad, angry, or annoyed with herself, learning lessons probably no grown-ups could teach better. Readers will note Hattie's rarely scolded; however, adults are often oblivious to her activities, and she does chide herself. This fast-paced, amusing charmer, with clipped sentences that promote quick reading, is a Swedish import via New Zealand and offers interesting insight into some Nordic customs. Loose black-line illustrations add humor and suggest that all characters are white. An interview with the author appears in the backmatter. Readers will appreciate getting to know Hattie."—Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2020-01-12
A young mischief-maker manages to get herself out of mishaps.

Six-year-old Hattie lives with her loving parents in a red house in Sweden. Their town is "far out in the middle of nowhere." Hattie loves that she's started school. She rides on the bus, does well, and makes friends. Each brief chapter in this gently comical novel describes various escapades Hattie gets up to, often alone, sometimes with her best pal. Readers will be intrigued by Hattie's adventures and will note that each one offers a glimpse into her conscience and lively, persevering personality. Not coincidentally, the incidents advance Hattie's character development, though she remains a child her age. Like most kids, Hattie can be peevish, has a playful, creative imagination, enjoys testing her limits, and doesn't usually foresee or understand the consequences of impulsivity. Still, when events don't conclude the way she'd hoped or planned, Hattie gets sad, angry, or annoyed with herself, learning lessons probably no grown-ups could teach better. Readers will note Hattie's rarely scolded; however, adults are often oblivious to her activities, and she does chide herself. This fast-paced, amusing charmer, with clipped sentences that promote quick reading, is a Swedish import via New Zealand and offers interesting insight into some Nordic customs. Loose black-line illustrations add humor and suggest that all characters are white. An interview with the author appears in the backmatter.

Readers will appreciate getting to know Hattie. (Fiction. 7-10)

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