Flip Flop

Text copyright © 2011 by Dana Meachen Rau

Illustrations copyright © 2011 by Jana Christy

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Rau, Dana Meachen.

Flip flop! / by Dana Meachen Rau ; illustrated by Jana Christy.

p. cm. — (Step into reading. A step 1 book)

Summary: Rhyming text explores the many options that summer presents to two best friends, from swimming in a pool versus swimming in the sea, to wearing flip flops versus going barefoot.

ISBN 978-0-375-86583-1 (trade pbk.) — ISBN 978-0-375-96583-8 (lib. bdg.)

eISBN: 978-0-375-98891-2 (ebk.)

[1. Stories in rhyme. 2. Summer—Fiction. 3. Choice—Fiction.] I. Christy, Jana, ill. II. Title.

PZ8.3.R232Fli 2011

[E]—dc22 2010024998

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Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

First Page

Flip! Flop!

We can’t decide.

Swim in the pool?

Or chase the tide?

Do cannonballs?

Or ride the float?

Fish from the dock?

Or sail the boat?

Flip! Flop!

What should we do?

Check out the fair?

Or try the zoo?

Ride the coaster?

Or win a prize?

Watch fireworks?

Or fireflies?

We don’t know.

We flip, we flop.

Lick ice cream cone?

Or frozen pop?

Help wash the car?

Or swing and doze?

Sip from a straw?

Or garden hose?

Wear flip-flops?

Or toss the shoes?

Two bare feet are

what we choose.

Dana M. Rau, Flip Flop

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