What is it about digging that children find so fascinating? Set up a classroom digging station using a sensory table or bin. This is picturebook storytelling at its finest, as text and illustration entwine to tell the whole story and make for “something spectacular” for your students to encounter. Only the readers and the boys’ accompanying dog sense what treasures actually surround them, and only the sharpest reader will sense what is truly remarkable about their experience in the end. Indeed, Dave announces they “won’t stop digging until they find something spectacular.” Told with Barnett’s perfectly paced and straightforward prose, and through Klassen’s earth-toned and textured cross-section illustrations of the subterranean adventure, the story humorously follows the boys’ earnest, but misguided decisions about their digging. Armed with long-handled shovels and full of chocolate milk and cookies, Sam and Dave embark on a familiar childhood pastime: digging a giant hole. How do you know when you’ve found something spectacular? Perhaps, you might answer, when you open Sam and Dave Dig a Hole, the latest picturebook by the award-winning duo of Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen. Written by Mac Barnett Illustrated by Jon Klassen
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