- Paperback: 112 pages
- Publisher: Frances Lincoln; 1 edition (April 12 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 184507033X
- ISBN-13: 978-1845070335
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 1.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 118 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,619,900 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From School Library Journal
Grade 2-5-This chapter book, which features a character first introduced in the picture book Amazing Grace (1991), has an old-fashioned tone. Grace and her friends play imaginatively, adults are mostly understanding, and even word choices seem dated. However, Grace is faced with challenges that are universal and timeless. She must deal with the death of an elderly neighbor, saying good-bye to a friend who moves away, and feelings of jealousy when a bright new girl at school tries to steal the show. She must also face the consequences after being caught skipping school, and worries that her mother may remarry. As in Starring Grace (2000, both Dial), the lively protagonist gets to act in a play, this time an updated version of Sleeping Beauty. Settings are spare, feelings are sometimes described more than shown, and Grace's friends and loving African-American family do not come to life. Allan's occasional black-and-white sketches do not radiate much emotion or action. Encore, Grace! is a pleasant read but only a first purchase where the earlier books are popular.
Tina Zubak, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, PA
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Tina Zubak, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, PA
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
From Booklist
Gr. 2-5. The thrill of putting on a show is once again at the center of a story about Grace, and, as in the picture book Amazing Grace (1991) and the chapter book Starring Grace (2000), the drama is as much about family, friends, and jealous rivals as it is about what happens on stage. Although Grace at first envies Crishell, the smart new girl in class, the girls get close when they write the class play, a fractured fairy tale that changes Sleeping Beauty to Waking Beauty, with a protagonist who doesn't just passively wait to be rescued. In a nice parallel, Grace and her friends decide to stand up to the grown-ups in their lives, and they draw up a children's rights charter asking their parents to talk to them about changes that affect them. The type is spacious for new readers and for reading aloud, and the occasional black-and-white illustrations include a close-up of Grace as the Wicked Fairy on stage as well as warm scenes of the neighborhood. Hazel Rochman
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Back Cover
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SHould be called Stop Already, Grace!, Feb 20 2005
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This review is from: Encore, Grace! (Hardcover)
This book stinks like a garbage dump. I hated it more than anyone could comprehend. Ms. Hoffman should've just stopped at amazing grace, which shoul've been called Terrible Grace. It sucked!
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