Featured books by Frane Lessac

Camp Granada

Camp Granada

By: Frane Lessac
Age Level: 6-9
Reading Level: Independent Reader
Genre: Poetry

The title song "Camp Granada" (also known as "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah") is just one of the melodies in this songbook, which includes old favorites as well as lesser known sing-along camp songs. The book is filled with colorful, childlike illustrations that chronicle a group of kids getting on a yellow bus to go from the city to a camp in the country. Small illustrations that look like photographs assure young readers that the memories made at camp are happy ones.

Island Counting 1 2 3

Island Counting 1 2 3

By: Frane Lessac
Age Level: 0-3
Reading Level: Pre-Reader
Genre: Nonfiction

Count people and animals doing what they do on a Caribbean island. From one to ten, the rhyming text combines with brightly colored, child-like illustrations to produce the sense of place and people.

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