Tops & bottoms
(Book - Regular Print, Child - Picture Book)

Art techniques used: Digitally multi-layered pencil and watercolor, originally painted on vegetable based paper.

Bear has lots of money and lots of land -- and he's lazy. Hare has nothing but a hungry family -- and he's smart. Hare is sure there's a way to share Bear's wealth, so he and Mrs. Hare cook up a plan. Then Hare hops on down the road to Bear's place and proposes that Bear donate land. Hare handles labor, and they split the crop in half. All Bear has to do is choose the half he wants -- tops or bottoms. Sleepy Bear takes tops but finds once the harvest is in that he's been tricked by clever Hare!

Ages 4-7.

Preschool.

580 L,Lexile

580L,Lexile

Decoding demand: 69 (high),Semantic demand: 80 (high),Syntactic demand: 80 (high),Structure demand: 80 (high),Lexile

Accelerated Reader AR,LG,3.2,0.5,11397.

Reading Counts RC,K-2,3.8,2.0,Quiz: 11674,Guided reading level: L.

Accelerated Reader,Grades K-4,3.2,0.5,Quiz 11397,English fiction.

Accelerated Reader,Grades K-4,3.2,0.5,SD,Quiz 11397,English fiction.

Accelerated Reader AR,LG,3.2,0.5,11397.

Reading Counts RC,K-2,3.8,2,Quiz: 11674,Guided reading level: L.

Accelerated Reader,Grades K-4,3.2,0.5,Quiz 11397,English fiction.

Accelerated Reader,Grades K-4,3.2,0.5,SD,Quiz 11397,English fiction.

Caldecott Honor Book, 1996