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  Gossie Plays Hide and Seek

  Olivier Dunrea

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  This is Gossie. She is playing hide and seek with the other goslings. Gossie is seeking. Hello, Gertie!

  Splash! Gossie finds Peedie hiding in the boat.

  Gossie finds BooBoo in the birdbath.

  Gossie has found all of the goslings except—

  Gertie helps Gossie look for Ollie. They peek under the hay bin.

  And peep among the flowers.

  The mice help them look, too. Squeak, squeak! Where could Ollie be?

  Peedie just knows that he can find Ollie. He looks among the apples.

  He searches through the grass.

  Peedie peeks under the flowerpot, but...

  he forgot what he is looking for.

  Peedie takes a nap. He feels sure he'll remember when he wakes up.

  BooBoo looks for Ollie, too. She looks for Ollie up in a beehive.

  She looks for Ollie under the hens.

  Then BooBoo starts to feel a little hungry. Lunch!

  Gossie calls all of the goslings together. They must find Ollie.

  They look high and low.

  They dive in and search under the water. Where is Ollie?

  The goslings look everywhere. And then...

  They find Ollie ... sound asleep.

  Up, down, above, around, behind, beneath, over!

  Gossie plays Hide and Seek is filled with directional words—words that help you describe where things are and gain a better sense of spatial relationships.

  Can you help find Ollie? You'll have to go inside and under, on top of, and all around the farm to find him! Punch out and fold the game pieces included here.

  To play, flip a coin and move

  1 space forward for heads and

  2 spaces forward for tails.

  Put your game pieces here!

  Find a snack among the apples—move ahead 2 places.

  Get caught inside a flowerpot—go back to the start.

  Sleep on top of the hay. Feeling rested, move ahead 1 place

  Look beneath the beehive—move quickly ahead 3 places!

  Stop inside the henhouse—miss a turn.

  Dive Under the water—take another turn.

  You found him!

  Play Hide and Seek with Gossie and Friends!

  As Gossie and the other goslings play hide and seek, it seems that no one can find Ollie. Directional words and early math concepts help Gossie and all of her friends as they seek—and find—Ollie! With this irresistibly touchable, fun, and delightfully innovative multi-concept book, young readers can enjoy pull tabs, textures, flaps, and interactive surprises.

  With a bonus fold-out board game that makes learning early math skills as fun as a game of hide and seek!

  Copyright © 2009 by Olivier Dunrea

  Book design and packaging by Carol Chu

  All rights reserved. For information about permission to

  reproduce selections from this book, write to Permissions,

  Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company,

  215 Park Avenue South, New York, New York 10003.

  www.hmhbooks.com

  Printed in Thailand

  SNP 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

  Safety tested in the United States of America

 

 

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