Katie Woo, We Love You!

by Fran Manushkin, Tammie Lyon (Illustrator)

From starting clubs to hosting sleepovers, Katie Woo is one fun friend! In this e-book, come along on her big adventures and funny mishaps. Whether she's playing at home or working at school, everything Katie does has us singing, "Katie Woo, we love you!"

Genres: Childrens

81 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 1, 2018

About the author

Fran Manushkin is the author of more than fifty books for children, including the Katie Woo series; Big Girl Panties, illustrated by Valeria Petrone; Big Sisters Are the Best, illustrated by Kirsten Richards; The Tushy Book, illustrated by Tracy Dockray; and Baby, Come Out!, illustrated by Ronald Himler and translated into eight languages. She lives in New York City.

Reviews

[michelle · Rating 4 out of 5]

* Thank you to Capstone Publishing for providing me with a review copy of this book and for being a Silver level sponsor of Multicultural Children’s Book Day. All opinions are my own.

Katie Woo is a young girl, probably in 1st or 2nd grade. The book itself is made up of 4 stand-alone short stories with lots of full color illustrations. This particular book has The Best Club, Katie’s Spooky Sleepover, Katie Blows her Top, and Daddy Can’t Dance. As a whole, the books works nicely as a transitional chapter book helping younger readers gain confidence to move to the next level.

The stories themselves are great bits of realistic fiction and have little life lessons in them to help young readers make sense of things that they are going through in their own lives. For example, in The Best Club, Katie and her friend JoJo are talking about starting a club. Another girl decides that she will start her own club and “it will be the best,” but that simply means that no one else manages to be good enough to be in it. Katie lets this other girl in on a special secret – “It’s okay if you are not the best….You just need to be yourself.” Wise words from a kid.

My 7 year old loved reading this book and quickly asked for more. The goal of a transitional reader is to grab a kid's attention and make them want to read more. This does that very well. It doesn't have the continuity of story that many transitional books have, but it definitely helps a newer reader feel confident that they can manage an entire book on their own.

[Angela · Rating 4 out of 5]

Katie Woo is an upbeat, endearing character that many kids will enjoy reading about. Like her friend, Pedro, her stories involve typical kid experiences, like working on school projects and having parties with her friends.

[Lesley · Rating 4 out of 5]

This would have been a 3 save the kid’s activities at the end.