Let's Play Rough!

by Lynne Jonell, Ted Rand (Illustrations)

When the tussling and wrestling suddenly gets to be too much for the little boy, the father takes a break to reassure his son with a great big hug, yet soon the boy is back in the mix and their special game is resumed once again.

Genres: Picture Books

32 pages, Hardcover

First published March 20, 2000

About the author

Lynne Jonell is an author (and occasional illustrator) of sixteen books for children, from picture books to novels for ages 8-12, all with an element of fantasy: magical hamsters, talking cats, tiny planes with a secret fuel, rodents with special powers, and more. Her novel Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat won the Minnesota Book Award; her latest book, The Sign of the Cat, is a swashbuckling sea adventure. Coming in 2018 is Far Sight, Deep Time, a time-travel novel set at her ancestral castle in Scotland.

Her books have received starred reviews in Horn Book, Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Sesame Street Parents, and have been published in nine languages. She teaches writing at the Loft Literary Center, is married and has two sons, and lives in Plymouth, Minnesota.

http://us.macmillan.com/author/lynnej...

Reviews

[Samantha · Rating 4 out of 5]

Let's Play Rough was a cute read. The illustrations were very well done, as the book went on the dad kept comparing his son to all sorts of different animals and finally landed on a bear. As that went on the illustrations slowly transformed the dad and the son into bears. Which was very neat. But this book can also teach kids on how to not play so rough with friends or even family.

[Kara Buck · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book displays something that almost everyone has done with their father. It strongly shows the love a child has with their father. It's a good family book but I don't think I would read it in a classroom. I chose this book because almost every student could relate to it, whether it be a dad, grandpa, uncle, big brother, or a friend.

[Rakisha · Rating 4 out of 5]

A little boy taunts his father into a bout of horseplay and Daddy complies with a little mischief making of his on. A great book for children to read with fathers.