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Fortune Cookies
A box arrives for Fortune from her Uncle Albert with seven fortune cookies. How wonderful! A cookie and a fortune for each day of the week! Best of all, each fortune comes true...but not in ways that Fortune expects.
28 pages, Hardcover
First published January 4, 2011
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January 27, 2011
In the old days, children's librarians were viewed as the gatekeepers of quality books for youth. That meant that they had to divide the wheat from the chaff. The good from the bad. The sterling from the meh. We still do that to a degree, though standards, like the times we are in, change. You see, there was a moment in history when one of the worst things you could call a children's book was "novelty". "Novelty" meant that a book was half a sneeze away from being a mere toy. "Novelty" meant that a book was going to appeal to a kid with fancy doodads and whizbangs, rather than with a good and coherent story. So Pat the Bunny was labeled a novelty and pop-up books were deemed novelties. You rarely saw them on library shelves. Time passed and the good side of novelty books, of those titles you can feel or beep or play with in some manner, has won out in the end. Though you'll still find some of the weakest picture books soaked in glitter in an effort to appeal to the sparkle-eyed child consumer, when it comes to interactive books a lot of publishers have found a way to combine strong stories with great art. Fortune Cookies might be a good example of this. It has a pull-tab premise, but if you printed it as a regular picture book without a tab in sight it will still stand as a strong title on its own. If it is a novelty then that is only because it is novel in its own right.
One day a small girl received a box full of seven fortune cookies. Dutifully she opens one each day for a week. At first the fortunes are fairly straightforward. Readers can pull the little tabs containing the fortunes out of the cookies, like the first one "You will lose something you don't need". The next day the girl loses a tooth. When the next fortune reads "Money is like the wind" she uses her tooth fairy money to buy a kite. Fortunes and real life continue to weave back and forth with the girl losing her kite, finding a cat, losing the cat, making a wish, and ending up at the end with seven little kittens. She names each one after a day of the week, making this not only a book about fortunes and the ups and downs of an average child's week, but also a handy tool for teaching the concept of Monday through Sunday.
A. (or Albert) Bitterman is the nom de plume of one Pete Cowdin, proprietor of the much lauded, much imitated, never excelled (or so I hear) Reading Reptile bookstore of Kansas City, Missouri. Now I'm a weird reviewer of children's books. I like to read way more into them than was the author's intent. And yes, I admit it, when I picked up this book one of my first thoughts aside from "I could really go for a cookie right now" (do you know they make flavored fortune cookies these days?) was "Oh good! A book about free will!" So let's see how the text stands up to this gleeful reinterpretation. Here we have a girl sent a mysterious box of fortune cookies from "Uncle Albert" (a sly reference to Albert Bitterman himself). When she reads the fortunes they have a tendency to either come true or allude to a true situation that will occur. Rather than try to influence her fate, however, our diminutive protagonist just lets events unfold as they may. It's the child reader who has to go back to see whether or not the fortune was on the mark or if the kid is stretching things a bit to justify the fortunes' existence. Expect a lot of backing and forthing with this book, then. It might be fun to ask a child if they think the fortunes are always true or if she just wants them to be true instead. You might get a greater variety of answers than you'd initially expect.
Of course, one thing I liked about the pull tab fortune cookies is the fact that the fortunes inside are very realistic. I can't tell you how sad I get when I open a fortune cookie only to find some vague words of advice rather than an out-and-out fortune. This book acknowledges those hugely frustrating pseudo-fortunes (faux fortunes?) by including a couple in the text. There's "Money is like the wind", and "Try to find the good with the bad." Blah. Gimme "You will meet a tall dark stranger" any day of the week over that vagueness.
Chris Raschka has a style that I've struggled with over the years. You know how you can respect an illustrator's art without ever feeling a close and personal connection to it? That's me. I can see why the man deserves his Caldecott and his laudatory comments, but I'm a representational girl at heart. Raschka's books can be beautiful, but sometimes I prefer the straight line of a thin-inked pen to these whirling swirling watercolors. In Fortune Cookies Raschka scales back the splatter. He is still wholly and entirely himself, but objects are recognizable and set against a white backdrop for the better part of the book. His heroine with her Ramona-style bowl cut and off-color bangs is a recognizable and relatable kid. His cat (who wears a delightfully woebegone expression when she first picks it up) is definitely all cat, as are her kittens. I also noticed that while Raschka isn't the type to hide small details in his work, there are larger details that a person might miss on a first pass. For example, at one point the little girl constructs a fort on a rainy day. Later, she relocates her cat and kittens that have taken shelter in, you guessed it, what appears to be the same fort. Bitterman doesn't specify that this is where they are to be found, but it makes sense in the context of the story. Well played, Raschka sir.
For a time I puzzled over who came up with the design concept for this book. As I mentioned before, if you just turned the fortunes into drawn parts of the book, this wouldn't have to be a novelty book at all. Was that how Mr. Bitterman envisioned it? Or did some clever soul, whether Mr. Raschka, the editor, or an Art Director, look at the text and suddenly realize, "Fortune cookie fortunes are the perfect size and shape to turn into pull-tabs"? Turns out it was the author's intent all along, which may explain why the story's strength matches its novel feel. In fact, unlike a lot of books with tabs (read: Maisy) these tabs not only slip back easily into place but it would take an extraordinarily strong tot to rip them out altogether. Once out, even a single missing tab would mess up a reading of the book. As a result they've built the interior of the book out of strong stuff. I wish I could say that the outside was just as sturdy, but unfortunately I can't. Because the binding has to be flexible enough to house twelve thick, strong pages, the hinge between the covers and the spine is highly prone to getting scuffs and holes and dings. The inside could conceivably last forever, but the outside quails at even the slightest test. Pity.
So you've a novelty book, a book of fate versus free will, a tool for teaching the days of the week, and a story with cute kittens to boot. Add in the Raschka and the Bitterman and this is one sweet little story that stands out. Libraries will take to it, children will take to it, adults will take to it, and I took to it. You will too. Take it out. It's an appealing little number.
For ages 3-8.
One day a small girl received a box full of seven fortune cookies. Dutifully she opens one each day for a week. At first the fortunes are fairly straightforward. Readers can pull the little tabs containing the fortunes out of the cookies, like the first one "You will lose something you don't need". The next day the girl loses a tooth. When the next fortune reads "Money is like the wind" she uses her tooth fairy money to buy a kite. Fortunes and real life continue to weave back and forth with the girl losing her kite, finding a cat, losing the cat, making a wish, and ending up at the end with seven little kittens. She names each one after a day of the week, making this not only a book about fortunes and the ups and downs of an average child's week, but also a handy tool for teaching the concept of Monday through Sunday.
A. (or Albert) Bitterman is the nom de plume of one Pete Cowdin, proprietor of the much lauded, much imitated, never excelled (or so I hear) Reading Reptile bookstore of Kansas City, Missouri. Now I'm a weird reviewer of children's books. I like to read way more into them than was the author's intent. And yes, I admit it, when I picked up this book one of my first thoughts aside from "I could really go for a cookie right now" (do you know they make flavored fortune cookies these days?) was "Oh good! A book about free will!" So let's see how the text stands up to this gleeful reinterpretation. Here we have a girl sent a mysterious box of fortune cookies from "Uncle Albert" (a sly reference to Albert Bitterman himself). When she reads the fortunes they have a tendency to either come true or allude to a true situation that will occur. Rather than try to influence her fate, however, our diminutive protagonist just lets events unfold as they may. It's the child reader who has to go back to see whether or not the fortune was on the mark or if the kid is stretching things a bit to justify the fortunes' existence. Expect a lot of backing and forthing with this book, then. It might be fun to ask a child if they think the fortunes are always true or if she just wants them to be true instead. You might get a greater variety of answers than you'd initially expect.
Of course, one thing I liked about the pull tab fortune cookies is the fact that the fortunes inside are very realistic. I can't tell you how sad I get when I open a fortune cookie only to find some vague words of advice rather than an out-and-out fortune. This book acknowledges those hugely frustrating pseudo-fortunes (faux fortunes?) by including a couple in the text. There's "Money is like the wind", and "Try to find the good with the bad." Blah. Gimme "You will meet a tall dark stranger" any day of the week over that vagueness.
Chris Raschka has a style that I've struggled with over the years. You know how you can respect an illustrator's art without ever feeling a close and personal connection to it? That's me. I can see why the man deserves his Caldecott and his laudatory comments, but I'm a representational girl at heart. Raschka's books can be beautiful, but sometimes I prefer the straight line of a thin-inked pen to these whirling swirling watercolors. In Fortune Cookies Raschka scales back the splatter. He is still wholly and entirely himself, but objects are recognizable and set against a white backdrop for the better part of the book. His heroine with her Ramona-style bowl cut and off-color bangs is a recognizable and relatable kid. His cat (who wears a delightfully woebegone expression when she first picks it up) is definitely all cat, as are her kittens. I also noticed that while Raschka isn't the type to hide small details in his work, there are larger details that a person might miss on a first pass. For example, at one point the little girl constructs a fort on a rainy day. Later, she relocates her cat and kittens that have taken shelter in, you guessed it, what appears to be the same fort. Bitterman doesn't specify that this is where they are to be found, but it makes sense in the context of the story. Well played, Raschka sir.
For a time I puzzled over who came up with the design concept for this book. As I mentioned before, if you just turned the fortunes into drawn parts of the book, this wouldn't have to be a novelty book at all. Was that how Mr. Bitterman envisioned it? Or did some clever soul, whether Mr. Raschka, the editor, or an Art Director, look at the text and suddenly realize, "Fortune cookie fortunes are the perfect size and shape to turn into pull-tabs"? Turns out it was the author's intent all along, which may explain why the story's strength matches its novel feel. In fact, unlike a lot of books with tabs (read: Maisy) these tabs not only slip back easily into place but it would take an extraordinarily strong tot to rip them out altogether. Once out, even a single missing tab would mess up a reading of the book. As a result they've built the interior of the book out of strong stuff. I wish I could say that the outside was just as sturdy, but unfortunately I can't. Because the binding has to be flexible enough to house twelve thick, strong pages, the hinge between the covers and the spine is highly prone to getting scuffs and holes and dings. The inside could conceivably last forever, but the outside quails at even the slightest test. Pity.
So you've a novelty book, a book of fate versus free will, a tool for teaching the days of the week, and a story with cute kittens to boot. Add in the Raschka and the Bitterman and this is one sweet little story that stands out. Libraries will take to it, children will take to it, adults will take to it, and I took to it. You will too. Take it out. It's an appealing little number.
For ages 3-8.
August 29, 2012
My kids loved that you could actually pull the tabs to see the fortune from inside the cookie. Cute idea!
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October 16, 2015Title: Fortune Cookies
Author: Albert Bitterman
Illustrator: Chris Raschka
Genre: Predictable book
Theme(s): growing up, life lessons, the little things in life
Opening line/sentence: “Yesterday I got a box in the mail. It had seven fortune cookies in it.”
Brief Book Summary: In this book a little girl gets a box with seven fortunes, one for each day of the week. Each time she gets a fortune the book asks the reader to predict what will happen to girl based on her fortune. The fortunes are happy and sad and the girl learns about valuable life lessons.
Professional Recommendation/Review #1: (Kirkus Reviews)
Seven fortune cookies guide a young child through an eventful week in this elegantly spare collaboration between a debut author and a Caldecott Medal–winning illustrator. Sliding out of its cookie with the pull of a tab that is the sole type of engineered effect, each fortune presages a subsequent occurrence. Sunday's "Today you will lose something you don't need" leads to a lost tooth and a dollar, for instance, and Monday's "Money is like the wind" induces the young narrator--depicted in Raschka's usual broad, Zen-like brushwork as a girl with orange locks over apple cheeks and a bright red shift--to buy a kite. Subsequent fortunes lead to a cat that vanishes, but then after a rainy day and a wish on a falling star ("Be careful what you wish for") it reappears. With seven kittens. "All my fortunes are here to stay!" the child gleefully concludes, naming each kitten after a day of the week. Only carping critics (and dismayed parents) will wonder what happens next. A buoyant celebration of pure, unalloyed joy. (Pop-up picture book. 4-7)
Professional Recommendation/Review #2: (Children’s Literature)
A young girl named Fortune gets a box in the mail from her Uncle Albert on the page before the title page. She tells us that it contains seven fortune cookies. To find what the fortune says, we must pull the paper fortune out of the cookie on the page. On Sunday, it says, "Today you will lose something you don't need." "And guess what?" she asks. Her tooth falls out and she puts it under her pillow. Each subsequent day of the week we pull out another fortune. And each day she asks us to guess what. And the fortune comes true in its own way. Fortune acquires a kite, loses it, finds a cat to take home; it disappears, and so it goes for every day of the week until a surprise ending. Raschka's casually applied watercolors require only minimal props to tell the visual story. Fortune is a charming youngster who giggles, cries, or smiles in response to her fortunes. Her adventures with her cat are particularly appealing in this light-hearted interactive tale. The sturdy construction should last a while as readers practice counting and the days of the week while pulling out the fortunes. Reviewer: Ken Marantz and Sylvia Marantz
Response to Two Professional Reviews: Both of the reviews above absolutely adore the book. This book is adorable and has potential to be interactive for a child while reading to guess what will happen next. Even though the girl’s fortunes are a little random they make for a cute story that a little kids will love.
Evaluation of Literary Elements: This book is extremely interactive. Each time the little girl got a fortune, the read had to pull a tab to read the fortune. This makes if fun for kids, and after they pulled the fortune the book then asked them to guess what happened next. This is verbally and physically interactive. Also, the illustrations are beautiful, bright, and engaging.
Consideration of Instructional Application:This could be used in a lower elementary school classroom to introduce the topic of predictions. This book is a great way to have student engagement and to ask them what they think will happen next. This book could also be used to talk about fortunes and children’s own experience with receiving a fortune.
Author: Albert Bitterman
Illustrator: Chris Raschka
Genre: Predictable book
Theme(s): growing up, life lessons, the little things in life
Opening line/sentence: “Yesterday I got a box in the mail. It had seven fortune cookies in it.”
Brief Book Summary: In this book a little girl gets a box with seven fortunes, one for each day of the week. Each time she gets a fortune the book asks the reader to predict what will happen to girl based on her fortune. The fortunes are happy and sad and the girl learns about valuable life lessons.
Professional Recommendation/Review #1: (Kirkus Reviews)
Seven fortune cookies guide a young child through an eventful week in this elegantly spare collaboration between a debut author and a Caldecott Medal–winning illustrator. Sliding out of its cookie with the pull of a tab that is the sole type of engineered effect, each fortune presages a subsequent occurrence. Sunday's "Today you will lose something you don't need" leads to a lost tooth and a dollar, for instance, and Monday's "Money is like the wind" induces the young narrator--depicted in Raschka's usual broad, Zen-like brushwork as a girl with orange locks over apple cheeks and a bright red shift--to buy a kite. Subsequent fortunes lead to a cat that vanishes, but then after a rainy day and a wish on a falling star ("Be careful what you wish for") it reappears. With seven kittens. "All my fortunes are here to stay!" the child gleefully concludes, naming each kitten after a day of the week. Only carping critics (and dismayed parents) will wonder what happens next. A buoyant celebration of pure, unalloyed joy. (Pop-up picture book. 4-7)
Professional Recommendation/Review #2: (Children’s Literature)
A young girl named Fortune gets a box in the mail from her Uncle Albert on the page before the title page. She tells us that it contains seven fortune cookies. To find what the fortune says, we must pull the paper fortune out of the cookie on the page. On Sunday, it says, "Today you will lose something you don't need." "And guess what?" she asks. Her tooth falls out and she puts it under her pillow. Each subsequent day of the week we pull out another fortune. And each day she asks us to guess what. And the fortune comes true in its own way. Fortune acquires a kite, loses it, finds a cat to take home; it disappears, and so it goes for every day of the week until a surprise ending. Raschka's casually applied watercolors require only minimal props to tell the visual story. Fortune is a charming youngster who giggles, cries, or smiles in response to her fortunes. Her adventures with her cat are particularly appealing in this light-hearted interactive tale. The sturdy construction should last a while as readers practice counting and the days of the week while pulling out the fortunes. Reviewer: Ken Marantz and Sylvia Marantz
Response to Two Professional Reviews: Both of the reviews above absolutely adore the book. This book is adorable and has potential to be interactive for a child while reading to guess what will happen next. Even though the girl’s fortunes are a little random they make for a cute story that a little kids will love.
Evaluation of Literary Elements: This book is extremely interactive. Each time the little girl got a fortune, the read had to pull a tab to read the fortune. This makes if fun for kids, and after they pulled the fortune the book then asked them to guess what happened next. This is verbally and physically interactive. Also, the illustrations are beautiful, bright, and engaging.
Consideration of Instructional Application:This could be used in a lower elementary school classroom to introduce the topic of predictions. This book is a great way to have student engagement and to ask them what they think will happen next. This book could also be used to talk about fortunes and children’s own experience with receiving a fortune.
December 4, 2016
Fortune cookies != magic.
It's kind of a dumb book, but it's interactive which is kind of cool. It's kind of like a pop-up book, with fortune cookies on a lot of the pages that you pull out like tabs to read them.
Basically, a girl gets a box with seven fortune cookies and interprets them as having come true even though they don't really make any sense. "On Monday, my fortune said: Money is like the wind. And guess what? ...I bought a kite." What? You just... You bought a kite because your fortune said money is like the wind? Or what? Cause and effect are kind of reversed there. So she finds a cat, and then it says "Don't hide your feelings," and then her cat disappears and she cries. And then it says, "Good things come to those who wait," so she builds a fort. And then she wishes on a shooting star and her cat comes back with seven kittens, so she names them after the days of the week. The end!
Grrr. It makes it seem like fortune cookies are real, but it doesn't explicitly say that. Instead of saying her fortune came true, it just says, "And guess what?" But the message basically boils down to fortune cookies being real. The book itself isn't very interesting. If it didn't have the pull-out fortune gimmick, I don't think anybody would be giving it a second glance.
Message: Fortune cookies are real, as far as I can tell.
For more children's book reviews, see my website at http://www.drttmk.com.
It's kind of a dumb book, but it's interactive which is kind of cool. It's kind of like a pop-up book, with fortune cookies on a lot of the pages that you pull out like tabs to read them.
Basically, a girl gets a box with seven fortune cookies and interprets them as having come true even though they don't really make any sense. "On Monday, my fortune said: Money is like the wind. And guess what? ...I bought a kite." What? You just... You bought a kite because your fortune said money is like the wind? Or what? Cause and effect are kind of reversed there. So she finds a cat, and then it says "Don't hide your feelings," and then her cat disappears and she cries. And then it says, "Good things come to those who wait," so she builds a fort. And then she wishes on a shooting star and her cat comes back with seven kittens, so she names them after the days of the week. The end!
Grrr. It makes it seem like fortune cookies are real, but it doesn't explicitly say that. Instead of saying her fortune came true, it just says, "And guess what?" But the message basically boils down to fortune cookies being real. The book itself isn't very interesting. If it didn't have the pull-out fortune gimmick, I don't think anybody would be giving it a second glance.
Message: Fortune cookies are real, as far as I can tell.
For more children's book reviews, see my website at http://www.drttmk.com.
February 21, 2011
In this story a little girl gets seven fortune cookies in the mail. As she opens one each day the fortune alludes to her successes and disappointments. Fortunately, by the time the story ends she has seven new mewling friends to make up for the lack of future fortunes. There are some distinct similarities to Remy Charlip's Unfortunately with this title. However, it's the interactive qualities that set it apart. As you read each fortune you pull a little tab out of the cookie and read it. I actually tried this out in a storytime the other day. One result was that glassy-eyed preschoolers starting coming up to me, desperate to pull the little fortune cookie flaps for themselves. Another result was that when I got to the ending there was a collective, "Awwww" from the adult audience. So really, this book has it all. Great readaloud potential. Children adore it, and parents find it adorable as well. A true winner. - B
October 26, 2012
Once Harriet started reading, she started selecting her own books. It's been fascinating to see which books she picks. The third book she read on her own was Fortune Cookies by Albert Bitterman.
A girl receives a package with seven fortune cookies. She reads one each day and relates the fortune to what happens to her that day. Not everything goes as the girl hopes they will but it works out for the best.
Each page has the fortune cookie, with a pull out fortune. That's a nice bit of interaction for older children. I suspect the fortunes won't last long in library copies as eager and perhaps clumsy hands try to pull them out.
For about a week, Harriet kept the book in my car to read to and from school. While the book was in the car, I had no idea that the book had the pull out tabs, nor was I entirely sure how the book went.
See, Harriet's reading, was still a little wonky. There's a line that goes: "I lost my kite but I found a cat." Except she reads it: "I lost my kitty but I found a cat."
A girl receives a package with seven fortune cookies. She reads one each day and relates the fortune to what happens to her that day. Not everything goes as the girl hopes they will but it works out for the best.
Each page has the fortune cookie, with a pull out fortune. That's a nice bit of interaction for older children. I suspect the fortunes won't last long in library copies as eager and perhaps clumsy hands try to pull them out.
For about a week, Harriet kept the book in my car to read to and from school. While the book was in the car, I had no idea that the book had the pull out tabs, nor was I entirely sure how the book went.
See, Harriet's reading, was still a little wonky. There's a line that goes: "I lost my kite but I found a cat." Except she reads it: "I lost my kitty but I found a cat."
January 20, 2011
Celebrate the Year of the Rabbit with scrumptious snacks and playful twists of fate! Albert Bitterman and Caldecott Medalist Chris Raschka tell a tale of seven days, seven cookies, seven pop-up prophecies and one little girl discovering life's surprises. "On Sunday my fortune said: Today you will lose something you don't need. And guess what? My tooth came out. So I put it under my pillow. On Monday my fortune said: Money is like the wind. And guess what? I found a dollar under my pillow! So I bought a kite." Opportunities for supposing what happens and pondering proverbs make Fortune Cookies and especially delightful read-aloud!
April 5, 2011
Description: A box arrives for Fortune from her Uncle Albert with seven fortune cookies. How wonderful! A cookie and a fortune for each day of the week! Best of all, each fortune comes true...but not in ways that Fortune expects.
This book is really cute and creative with the way they incorporate the fortune cookies into each page.
Being able to pull out the fortune is very fun, but it was kind of hard to get the fortune out! Little fingers may work better. That problem aside, I would definitely recommend this book!
This book is really cute and creative with the way they incorporate the fortune cookies into each page.
Being able to pull out the fortune is very fun, but it was kind of hard to get the fortune out! Little fingers may work better. That problem aside, I would definitely recommend this book!
January 6, 2013
This book was very cute. Any book that ends with a plethora of kittens. I did enjoy the story and the illustration, especially that precious yawning kitten at the end, but I felt the writing style was a little too simplistic. The fortune cookies themselves are awesome, but I'm a known sucker for pop-up books and anything of that nature. I might read this again, when I have time too sit down and enjoy it.
October 8, 2013
I like that this is a fun story even without the pull-tab element. It's a refreshing change, since so many novelty books for children have such shoddy writing. I enjoyed the repeated "Guess what?" element, that allowed children to make predictions about what might happen next.
I'm sort of ambivalent when it comes to the illustrations, though. I do like the expressions on the girl, but the style is a little meh.
My daughter really enjoyed reading this one.
I'm sort of ambivalent when it comes to the illustrations, though. I do like the expressions on the girl, but the style is a little meh.
My daughter really enjoyed reading this one.
December 24, 2013
A child receives a box of seven fortune cookies & each mysterious fortune comes true. Each cookie has a pull-out fortune (perhaps to be read aloud by a parent) which provides some challenging contrast to the otherwise short, easy-to-read sentences with repetition on each page. While this tale of pet gain, loss and reunion is a sturdy one, it is Raschka's illustrations and the slide-out fortunes that make it sing.
January 13, 2011
Pretty cool premise in this one - seven fortune cookies arrive in the mail, and the fortunes inside each one lead to a "week of good fortune," according to the back cover. Raschka's watercolor illustrations are bold and bright, and fit the story well. I like the pull-tab fortunes that the reader can pull out of the cookies. Pretty cool!
March 5, 2012
Inventive pull the flap story in which readers can pull tabs to reveal a different fortune for every day of the week! Simple story and bright illustrations make this a great read aloud. Positive story begs to be read again and again. Readers are prompted to guess what before each page is turned so this is a good title to use for predicting plot.
December 13, 2010
Simple pull the flap book combining fortune cookies and days of the week. Oh so cool!
August 30, 2012
3.5 stars. Given that the fortunes are pull out, this would be well suited for individual storytime.
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March 30, 2011cats, luck, fortunes
May 12, 2011
love raschka. love fortune cookies. absolutely adore this book.
June 7, 2011
A cute story with days of the week and a tie-in with counting. Cute, but it didn't do anything for me, maybe 3 & 1/2 with the days of the week and counting and pull tabs...
June 8, 2011
I'm really not a fan of Rascha's style but I do love fortune cookies!
June 25, 2011
Read at Saturday family story time on 6/25/11: http://storytimesecrets.blogspot.com/...
July 4, 2011
A young child recieves a gift with 7 fortune cookies that fortell another fortune at the end. Book is useful for teaching days of the week and the idea of idioms.
January 8, 2012
Cute but not amazing. Fun to pull the fortunes out of the cookies. Fun ending (except for her parents, perhaps). Not quite what I was thinking for Chinese New Year.
January 10, 2012
This is a fun, interactive book that all students will love!
January 30, 2012
An interesting and simple story, like the interactive elements of it.
August 5, 2016
Good book for making and checking predictions
July 17, 2012
Very cute, the fortunes in the cookies pull out.
April 29, 2017
Love that the fortunes pull out and students can predict what will happen next.
May 30, 2013
Adorable book with great life lessons in the fortunes. Wondering how well this book will hold up in the elementary library... The copy I read from the public library is missing Friday's fortune :(
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