Uh-oh, Leonardo!: The Adventures of Providence Traveler Paperback – Picture Book, August 27, 2007

Laugh out loud funny for the young and young in heart.

Pop-up collectors need to take a serious look... While not a pop-up, you'll surely appreciate the artistic value!

This is a fun way to educate children on history and Leonardo da Vinci. As an adult, I idolize Leonardo and was recently at the library where the book title caught my attention. Not knowing if it was about the great artist/inventor/genius, I took it home and read it to my 8 and 5 year olds. They loved the story and the history. Now, they are excited to invent, paint and write backwards. Very Cool...a must buy (which is why I am on Amazon!)!!

Use this one with fifth graders on up, get out the Leonardo books, a map of Florence, and hang on to your hats. Lots of little detailed pages on cathedrals, printing, and daily life and the storyline's frantic quality (Providence has to find the twins who have the windup key for Topo, the time travel machine/mouse that got them to 1504. When you've read it three or four times, maybe the students will want to take Providence Traveler to other long ago and far away locations and write their own adventures of this fearless mousette who loves to invent things.

I used this book in a summer session with K-2 graders. We did it in four segments...vocab words etc... I stopped in spots which kept them in suspense for the next installation. The kids really liked it!