In stunning photographs, a three-year-old child describes people’s pockets, and what they keep in them, while interacting with people at home and in the neighborhood throughout the day, from getting dressed in the morning to going to sleep at night.  Book includes narrative poem plus learning activities: Let’s Play Pretend, Let’s Learn the Letter p, Proud of You, Puzzle Me, Let’s Make a Puppet Play.  A practical must-have for early child care centers, ESOL preschool classrooms, home schoolers and public library story times, this beautiful book with engaging interactive activities will also be treasured by families. 

This simple story is told in rhyming text.  Following the narrative story are five free or inexpensive guided activities for adults and older children to use with preschool children, individually and in groups.

Let's Play Pretend is an action-packed word-by-word creative dramatics walk through the neighborhood which includes stepping, hopping, galloping, tiptoeing, and crawling.  Children learn to clap "the beat" to the movement words.  This activity also includes instructions for making a "knock-knock-knock-knock" sound with the tongue.

Let's Learn the Letter p introduces the alphabet and the sound of the letter p.  The adult asks the children to find and name illustrations in the book beginning with the letter p.  Writing down their answers is a suggested option for the adult.  The book provides a complete list of "p" words.

Proud Of You includes a simple melody to accompany short verses about doing a "good job."

Puzzle Me guides adults to lead children in creating their own paper puzzles.

Let's Make A Puppet Play gives the adult step-by-step instructions on how to demonstrate a finger-puppet play, and then how to teach children to create and perform their own finger-puppet plays.

Praise for Pockets

"Winning photographs!" Tomie dePaola,
2011 winner of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for writing and/or illustrating over 200 books, making a lasting contribution to literature for children.