Tell Me About Your Day Today
Australian children's picture book by Mem Fox and Lauren Stringer
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Tell Me About Your Day Today is a 2012 children's picture book by Mem Fox and Lauren Stringer. It is about a boy discussing the day's events with his favorite stuffed toys.
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| Author | Mem Fox |
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| Illustrator | Lauren Stringer |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Children's picture book |
| Published | 2012 (Scholastic Australia) |
| Publication place | Australia |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
| Pages | 32 (unpaginated) |
| ISBN | 9781742835785 |
| OCLC | 799146002 |
Reception
On reviewing Tell Me About Your Day Today Kirkus Reviews wrote: "The specifics are told wordlessly and in great detail in Stringer’s bright acrylic illustrations with just the right softly fuzzy surroundings. ... Fox's use of rhyme and repetition has a flowing cadence that moves briskly along while allowing time to savor the details of the innocent delight of a small child’s imagination".[1] Horn Book Guides found that "Stringer's illustrative vignettes in soft nighttime colors with thoughtful design elements complement Fox's simple, lyrical text in this reassuring bedtime story".[2]
Tell Me About Your Day Today has also been reviewed by Publishers Weekly,[3] Booklist,[4] School Library Journal,[5] Magpies,[6] and The New York Times.[7]
It is a 2013 Minnesota Book Awards Children's Literature finalist.[8]
