Gila Monsters Meet You at the Airport (Paperback)

from kidlit9

A New York City boy's preconceived ideas of life in the West make him very apprehensive about the family's move there.

from cabaty

Moving can be scary! Especially when you have a lot of wrong ideas about a place! For anyone who has or will move to a new place, you should read this book first. It's terribly easy to make assumptions, but you might end up being way off base. Fear can make anyone believe some pretty silly things.

from ermilligan

This book is based on a young boy that is forced from his home to move to a place out west with many preconceived ideas about what his new life will be like. He met a boy in the airport who was moving to the east with the same feelings. He soon found out that he was wrong and grows to love his ne...

from mariah21

This book describes the anxiety a little kid has as he is faced with a big move across the country. He stereotypes how his new life is going to be, and realizes when he meets another kid how ridiculous it is to assume how a place is going to be. It teaches to be open minded and it has funny stere...

from CatEllington

What a classic! What a beautiful classic. Marjorie Weinman Sharmat's Gila Monsters Meet You at the Airport is another one of my all-time childhood favorites. I can remember reading this wonderful, colorful picture book in my elementary school's second floor library back in early 1981, and develop...