Want to Play? (Confetti Kids #2)

(Dive Into Reading)
By Paula Yoo, Shirley Ng-Benitez
Paperback: $10.95

In this early chapter book in the popular Confetti Kids series, a diverse group of kids decide to play pretend. There’s no limit to what they imagine they can be!

Front cover for ¿Quieren jugar? (Confetti Kids #2) by Paula Yoo and Shirley Ng-Benitez
This book is also available in Spanish
¿Quieren jugar? (Confetti Kids #2)
By Paula Yoo, Shirley Ng-Benitez

Description

It’s a warm, sunny day, and the gang heads to the neighborhood playground to play. What should they play? Henry wants to play basketball, and Padma wants to play Follow the Leader. Finally Pablo comes up with a great idea: to play pretend. It’s a game that everyone can do easily. They can pretend to be archaeologists, astronauts, and explorers. There’s no limit to what they imagine they can be!

About the Creators

Paula Yoo

Paula Yoo is an author and screenwriter whose children's books for Lee & Low include Sixteen Years in Sixteen Seconds, Shining Star, and several titles in the Confetti Kids series. Her titles have been recognized by the International Reading Association, the Texas Bluebonnet Award Masterlist, and Lee & Low's New Voices Award. She and her husband live in Los Angeles, California, where she works in television. You can visit her online at paulayoo.com.

Shirley Ng-Benitez

Shirley Ng-Benitez is a Bay Area children’s book author/illustrator who has illustrated 35+ children’s books, and has a background in Graphic Design (GabbyandCo.com), and hand-lettering (American Greetings, Inc.). She works and experiments in traditional mediums including watercolor, gouache, pen&ink, oils, and painted & cut-paper collage. Her work draws from a deep wish to add more compassion and connection in the world through her art and stories. She founded @AWEtober on Instagram, an annual art auction fundraiser since ’20, whose efforts have raised tens of thousands for various organizations supporting victims of the California wildfires, and efforts in coral reef restoration around the globe. She lives with her family and two black cats, and is thrilled to be working on her debut picture book, DOWN, THROUGH, UP by Quill Tree Books, Winter ‘25. Please visit shirleyngbenitez.com for more.

Reviews

  • "Young readers are sure to want to join Pablo, Lily, and all of their friends, and it's wonderful to note that the diverse characterization will aid in making many feel all the more included."

    - Kirkus Reviews

Hardcover

  • ISBN 9781620142509
  • Price $14.95
  • Publication Date Feb 01, 2016
  • Trim Size 9 × 6 in
  • Weight 0.4375 lbs
  • Page Count 32
  • Paperback

  • ISBN 9781620142592
  • Price $10.95
  • Publication Date Feb 01, 2016
  • Trim Size 9 × 6 in
  • Weight 0.1875 lbs
  • Page Count 32
  • Word Count 396
  • Interests

  • Imprint Lee & Low Books
  • Audience Children
  • BISAC Category 1 JUV / Readers / Intermediate
  • BISAC Category 2 JUV / Social Themes / Friendship
  • BISAC Category 3 JUV / Imagination & Play
  • Themes Childhood Experiences and Memories, Collaboration, Cultural Diversity, Fiction, Friendship, Games / Toys, Imagination, Latinx / Latino / Hispanic, Multiple Ethnicities Represented, Neighbors, Realistic Fiction
  • Reading Levels

  • Age Range Ages 5 - 7
  • Grade Range Grades K - 2
  • Guided Reading I
  • ATOS Book Level 1.9
  • DRA 14
  • Lexile Level 390
  • Reading Level Grades 1 - 2
  • Bebop Reading Emergent
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