If you’re looking for a GREAT book on manners to teach kids about please and thank you, you’re going to love Please, Mr. Panda, written and illustrated by Steve Antony.
The book is about a panda that has a box of doughnuts and he would like to give each doughnut away. He approaches other animals and finds them to be so rude, that he decides not to give them the doughnuts. Until, in to his line of vision, come a lemur – hanging upside down. The lemur says he’d like a doughnut and uses the word please. Mr. Panda is so taken by how polite the lemur is, that he is granted much more than a single doughnut.
My favorite part is when the lemur says: Please, Mr. Panda. I am happy to hear it and happy he gets the doughnut he wanted. For a long time I’d turn the book upside down. I didn’t quite understand that the lemur was meant to be like that and it used to bother me. Now I think it’s cute and funny. The illustrations are really interesting to look at too.
This is a great book for reminding kids like me that it’s important to say please and thank you. My mom likes how simple the book makes an important point. It gave us lots to talk about.
Here’s a worksheet with doughnuts. Practice your counting and after, use it to pretend you have doughnuts and take turns saying please and thank you as you pretend to give them away.
Check out this really cool video of the book!
USEFUL INFO FOR GROWN UPS:
- Book: Please Mr. Panda
- Written/illustrated by: Steve Antony
- Age Range: 2-4
- Board Book: 26 pages
- Publisher: Cartwheel Books; Brdbk edition (December 27, 2016)
- ISBN-78-1338106480
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