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Snail Trail
When Gail encounters a snail in a pail, it causes trouble for her.
- GenresPicture Books
24 pages, Library Binding
First published July 1, 2010
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About the author
Sally Grindley
252 books50 followersI came into children's books originally as Editorial Director of a nationwide children's book club, though I had written and directed a children's play while a student at Sussex University, which was performed at the Edinburgh Fringe. I wrote my first two children's picture books in 1984 and was lucky enough that Anthony Browne wanted to illustrate the second - Knock Knock Who's There? It was published in 1985, is still going strong today and is one of my most successful.
Shhh! was published in 1991 and has known great success in France/Belgium in particular (close on 300,000 copies sold). It's success in the UK - it won the Children's Book Award - was hampered by the liquidation of its original publisher.
I became a full-time author in 1995 and now have some 150+ titles published, the most recent being L'Histoire du Soir in France, Belgium and Italy.
Feather Wars, published in 2003, was my first sortie into young fiction and was followed by the very successful Spilled Water, which has been published in some ten different languages and is very popular in schools as a class reader. It won the Nestle Smarties Gold Award (and I wound up being a 'Pointless' answer on the back of it!) Broken Glass came next and was a Sunday Times Book of the Week.
I'm currently working on picture books again and have plans to illustrate one of my own in the not too distant future - watch this space!
Shhh! was published in 1991 and has known great success in France/Belgium in particular (close on 300,000 copies sold). It's success in the UK - it won the Children's Book Award - was hampered by the liquidation of its original publisher.
I became a full-time author in 1995 and now have some 150+ titles published, the most recent being L'Histoire du Soir in France, Belgium and Italy.
Feather Wars, published in 2003, was my first sortie into young fiction and was followed by the very successful Spilled Water, which has been published in some ten different languages and is very popular in schools as a class reader. It won the Nestle Smarties Gold Award (and I wound up being a 'Pointless' answer on the back of it!) Broken Glass came next and was a Sunday Times Book of the Week.
I'm currently working on picture books again and have plans to illustrate one of my own in the not too distant future - watch this space!
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October 21, 2022
Read for my 3 year old's bedtime. A fun book with snails. They left a trail as they go.
Borrowed this book from the library.
Borrowed this book from the library.
July 22, 2024
First, the human-level story: Human-ish, anyway. Playfully, this is the adventure of a snail who winds up inside a house. That snail proceeds to make a mess. (Unintentionally, but still...)
NEXT COMES THE LINGUISTICS STORY, THE PHONICS ADVENTURE
Pedagogically, this story is way sophisticated. Children learn to pronounce (decode) words which require some blending. Blending the AI sound in particular, and also blending certain consonant sounds.
In terms of phonics, this is the bigger message of this story. For young ones, it can be a thrill to learn such things. And why?
BY NOW, KIDS MAY BE FLUENT ENGLISH SPEAKERS
So it's time to train their ears and minds... so they can learn how to consciously recognize speech sounds.
NEXT COMES THE LINGUISTICS STORY, THE PHONICS ADVENTURE
Pedagogically, this story is way sophisticated. Children learn to pronounce (decode) words. This book is all about the many sounds and functions of the vowel U. In terms of phonics, this is the bigger message of this story. For young ones, it can be a thrill to learn such things. And why?
BY NOW, KIDS MAY BE FLUENT ENGLISH SPEAKERS
So it's time to train their ears and minds... so they can learn how to consciously recognize speech sounds.
ALWAYS WITH BOOKS DESIGNED WITH PHONICS IN MIND
The narrative plus learning are combined in a way that is highly sophisticated. I feel pained when I go onto Goodreads and find that books like this one have just TWO STARS or THREE STARS. Or NO STARS.
These books are brilliantly made and can serve as real powerhouse learning tools. This author Sally Grindley, has a real flair for making the language jump off the page. For instance:
The snail slid in the paint and made a trail.
The trail is on a pail.
The trail is on a train.
Gail, the maid, spots the trail.
"This is such a pain!" wails Gail.
"A snail has made a trail!"
FIVE STARS for this wondrously written and illustrated book.
NEXT COMES THE LINGUISTICS STORY, THE PHONICS ADVENTURE
Pedagogically, this story is way sophisticated. Children learn to pronounce (decode) words which require some blending. Blending the AI sound in particular, and also blending certain consonant sounds.
In terms of phonics, this is the bigger message of this story. For young ones, it can be a thrill to learn such things. And why?
BY NOW, KIDS MAY BE FLUENT ENGLISH SPEAKERS
So it's time to train their ears and minds... so they can learn how to consciously recognize speech sounds.
NEXT COMES THE LINGUISTICS STORY, THE PHONICS ADVENTURE
Pedagogically, this story is way sophisticated. Children learn to pronounce (decode) words. This book is all about the many sounds and functions of the vowel U. In terms of phonics, this is the bigger message of this story. For young ones, it can be a thrill to learn such things. And why?
BY NOW, KIDS MAY BE FLUENT ENGLISH SPEAKERS
So it's time to train their ears and minds... so they can learn how to consciously recognize speech sounds.
ALWAYS WITH BOOKS DESIGNED WITH PHONICS IN MIND
The narrative plus learning are combined in a way that is highly sophisticated. I feel pained when I go onto Goodreads and find that books like this one have just TWO STARS or THREE STARS. Or NO STARS.
These books are brilliantly made and can serve as real powerhouse learning tools. This author Sally Grindley, has a real flair for making the language jump off the page. For instance:
The snail slid in the paint and made a trail.
The trail is on a pail.
The trail is on a train.
Gail, the maid, spots the trail.
"This is such a pain!" wails Gail.
"A snail has made a trail!"
FIVE STARS for this wondrously written and illustrated book.
March 8, 2019
A great companion to Sam Hay's books for beginning readers. Sally Grindley also writes for the My Phonics Readers book series. These are wonderful books for beginning readers, as they use only words that the students know of can sound out, and this adds to their confidence.
July 3, 2015
Many books written for emergent readers are very 'blah.' This one made us all laugh and my daughter actually wanted to read it more than once.
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