Tad Hills
Author of How Rocket Learned to Read
About the Author
Tad Hills studied painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, creative writing, and poetry at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. Initially an actor and fine artist, he turned to illustrating children's titles after being offered a job designing book jackets. He is the author and show more illustrator of several children's books including the Duck and Goose series, How Rocket Learned to Read, and Rocket Writes a Story. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical name
- Hills, Tad
- Birthdate
- 1963-04-01
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
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This book is for primary aged students. This is another story in the Rocket series and already and writing, where this story tells about how Rocket is collecting new words in order to write a story of his own! This book goes into the pieces of language is a great pairing for a beginning writing or storytelling lesson (3rd grade-ish?).
This book is for primary level students. This picture book depicts a dog named Rocket and his friend, the little yellow bird, and Rocket's journey to read and enjoy stories found in books. Though he may have been reluctant to learn at first, his love for stories told by the little bird encouraged him to learn to read them for himself.
This book would be incredibly helpful for parents to read to children who may be reluctant or struggling to learn to read. It gives them encouragement to try, as they will want to have the same excitement for stories as Rocket does.… (more)
This book would be incredibly helpful for parents to read to children who may be reluctant or struggling to learn to read. It gives them encouragement to try, as they will want to have the same excitement for stories as Rocket does.… (more)
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Tad Hills illustrates the Rocket Learns to Read books and now having a mouse and an elephant through his eyes was such fun. And a sweet story of friendship and love what else do you want at Christmastime