The Lost and Found

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Summary: It's easy to get lost in this Lost and Found!
Review: "You can't get lost in the Lost and Found," Mona and Wendell told him [Floyd], but they no longer sounded so sure (from "The Lost and Found," by Mark Teague).

I just read "The Lost and Found" to a group of 3rd and 4th graders who selected it from a batch of new books we just added to our elementary school library. They sat totally engaged in this fantastic journey into the world at the bottom of a school lost and found.

Since our school lost and found is located just outside our library, I often see children--and parents--lost in a fantasy world as they peruse all the missing items in there. In many ways, I was reminded of the dress-up box my parents had when I was a child. You could just pick up a hat, gloves or an old shirt and be mentally transported to another place or time. Mark Teague builds very effectively on this imaginative tendency in children.

Our 3rd and 4th graders had a brief discussion on the concepts of fiction or non-fiction, and realistic or fantasy, at the conclusion of this story. I'm sure your children will enjoy this as much as our group did. Just don't get lost in the lost and found!

Rating:
Summary: It's easy to get lost in this Lost and Found!
Review: "You can't get lost in the Lost and Found," Mona and Wendell told him [Floyd], but they no longer sounded so sure (from "The Lost and Found," by Mark Teague).

I just read "The Lost and Found" to a group of 3rd and 4th graders who selected it from a batch of new books we just added to our elementary school library. They sat totally engaged in this fantastic journey into the world at the bottom of a school lost and found.

Since our school lost and found is located just outside our library, I often see children--and parents--lost in a fantasy world as they peruse all the missing items in there. In many ways, I was reminded of the dress-up box my parents had when I was a child. You could just pick up a hat, gloves or an old shirt and be mentally transported to another place or time. Mark Teague builds very effectively on this imaginative tendency in children.

Our 3rd and 4th graders had a brief discussion on the concepts of fiction or non-fiction, and realistic or fantasy, at the conclusion of this story. I'm sure your children will enjoy this as much as our group did. Just don't get lost in the lost and found!

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Summary: Very cute, imaginative story
Review: Don't know why anyone would not give this one 5 stars?

Great book about imagination and friendship!

Get it via used books in good condition - then it's a GREAT buy!

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Summary: Almost as Teague Terrific as Pigsty
Review: My son Grant just loved Pigsty and The Secret Shortcut. So we purchased Mark Teague's The Lost and Found. The illustrations are just great and having Wendell and Floyd, whom we first read about in Teague's Secret Short Cut, as the main characters made him feel right at home in The Lost and Found. He reminded me that his school's lost and found resembles the one in the book. We really enjoyed the imaginative story. Great read for kids old enough to understand the concept of a Lost and Found. Yet not quite as good as Pigsty or The Secret Shortcut.

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Summary: a family favorite
Review: What a delightful book! Lush illustrations throughout the story-- That one page is always good for an impromptu game of "I spy"-- great for boys or girls. Both of my kids-- 5 and 3-- love to hear this story over and over.

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Summary: a family favorite
Review: Whenever I read this story to children in grades K-4, I always get a great response. I'm a children's librarian and this book is one I always read to classes that visit my library or whenever I am asked to visit a school and read to the children. The children love the story and can easily recognize the items that got "lost" as their own. Mark Teague can really tell a story that children can relate to. The illustrations are wonderful because they are full of details that children easily recognize, like the mummy case and viking ship. Watch for the squid that gets Wendell and Floyd in trouble in the beginning of the story. The children also liked Teague's other books, Pigsty and One Halloween Night.