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Amber Brown is excited about starting second grade, but she is also a little nervous. There is a new second grade teacher this year. The old second grade teacher was really nice and used to smile at Amber in the hall. What if the new one isnt as nice? What if she doesnt like Amber?
As she sets off with her new bear backpack (named Bear Lee Brown), the flapping scab on her knee (named Scabulous), and her best friend, Justin, Amber decides shes ready for whatever happens. And second grade better be ready for Amber Brown
Author Notes
Paula Danziger was born in Washington, D.C., on August 18, 1944.
She received her Master's Degree in reading and began her career as a teacher. She has taught at the junior high, high school, and college levels.
Danziger is best known for a series of children's books about Amber Brown, including Amber Brown Is Not a Crayon, You Can't Eat Your Chicken Pox, Amber Brown, and Amber Brown Wants Extra Credit. Each of these books deals with a "crisis" in the life of young Amber Brown, such as her progressing to fourth grade. Danziger's writing is often inspired by conversations with her niece, Carrie, who is the model for Amber Brown. Other books by Danziger include The Cat Ate My Gymsuit, Remember Me to Harold Square, and Thames Doesn't Rhyme with James.
Danziger has become popular in Britain where she was nominated for the British Book Award for Children. She has also received several awards in America: the Parent's Choice Award, an International Reading Association-Children's Book Council Award, and an IRA-CBC Children's Choice Award. Danziger takes time out from writing to host a literary segment on a BBC children's show, called Live and Kicking.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (5)
School Library Journal Review
K-Gr 3-From the beginning of his first day of first grade at his new school, Marvin feels as though he is "one too many." First, he gets lost at school, then when he finds his class, his teacher isn't expecting him so he doesn't have a name card or a place to sit. As the days go on, things only get worse for Marvin because everyone in his class can read the new words that they are learning except for him. When his teacher sends a note home asking the parents to read with their children, Marvin doesn't show it to his parents because he thinks they are too busy with their farm and he doesn't want to be a bother. Finally, during a snow storm when everyone is stuck inside, Marvin's family realizes that Marvin can't read. Marvin's dad tells him that he was the last one in his class to read, and Marvin and his dad sit down and read together. Christina Moore uses a variety of voices to distinguish between the various characters in this beginning reader written by Katherine Paterson and illustrated by Jane Clark Brown (HarperCollins, 2001). Her narration reflects all of the dejection, sorrow, pain and, eventually, joy that Marvin experiences. Occasional moments of background music enhance the story by accenting the emotions and actions. A great choice for individual or class use with beginning readers.-Veronica Schwartz, Des Plaines Public Library, IL (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
Together Again Beginning readers will welcome the return of several favorite characters. Amber Brown stars in two titles by Paula Danziger, illus. by Tony Ross. In It's a Fair Day, Amber Brown, the heroine and her best friend, Justin, enjoy a vacation with their families. Unfortunately, things turn sour when Amber's parents start arguing and she gets lost at the county fair. Get Ready for Second Grade, Amber Brown focuses on first-day jitters that are quickly quelled. (July) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Horn Book Review
Readers join Amber Brown as she begins second grade and as she spends a day at the county fair with her parents and her best friend Justin's family. As always, life for Amber is mixed--wonderful moments are tempered with worries. Danziger's lively prose accompanied by Ross's cartoons make these books as easy to read as they are easy to like. [Review covers these A Is for Amber titles: [cf2]Get Ready for Second Grade, Amber Brown[cf1] and [cf2]It's a Fair Day, Amber Brown[cf1].] From HORN BOOK Fall 2002, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
It's always a fair day or better with the irrepressible Amber Brown around. In this third addition to the easy reader A Is for Amber series, Danziger (Get Ready for Second Grade, Amber Brown, above, etc.) sends Amber and her best friend Justin off to the Poconos (or Poke-a-Nose, in Amber-speak) with their families on vacation. Amber's parents have been fighting (in back-story development that foreshadows their divorce in the Amber stories for older readers), and she hopes that will stop and everyone will have a perfect day at the county fair. They all have fun on the rides, but another parental fight erupts, and Amber, feeling lost and rejected, really does get lost when she tries to find Justin's happier family. Her parents see that their fighting has hurt their child, and the tension is resolved in a satisfying conclusion with some tears, hugs, and a teddy-bear prize from Amber's dad to her mom. Ross provides her usual cheerful and humorous illustrations in watercolor and ink, with lots of funny faces from the children. Danziger shows her usual deft touch with childhood feelings and family dynamics, adding another original story with genuine humor and emotion to the growing chronicle of Amber's life. (Easy reader. 5-9)
Booklist Review
Gr. 1^-3. Worried because the new second-grade teacher really wants to teach in high school and calls elementary school kids "knee biters," Amber and her friends anticipate the worst in Get Ready. Ms. Light, however, turns out to be as bright as her name and as wonderful as Ms. Frizzle and Lilly's Mr. Slinger. In Fair Day Amber plans to have a perfect day as she and her parents go to a county fair along with her friend Justin and his family. Upset by her parents' constant arguing, Amber wanders off, becomes lost, and is soon found. Cotton candy, riding the merry-go-round, and winning prizes turn Amber's "Fair Day" into an "almost-perfect day." Although told with Danziger's characteristic humor, both books portray very real situations, fears, and apprehensions that new readers will readily recognize. They will admire Amber's spirit and spunk, laugh at the wordplay and, like second-grade Amber, soon be ready for chapter books. Linda Perkins
