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Pulver, Robin

Me First!: Prefixes Lead the Way

40 pp. | Holiday | September, 2016 | Trade ISBN 978-0-8234-3644-6 $16.95

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Lynn Rowe Reed. The prefixes (depicted in collage illustrations in clay, paint, and colorful pipe cleaners) are excited because their teacher had "promised to REview PREfixes today." When he arrives at school dressed as President Lincoln, though, the prefixes worry that they have been forgotten. The silly speech-bubble dialogue and overall likability of the prefix characters carry the day; the endpapers include a prefix refresher course.

Reviewer: Robin L. Smith | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2017