Simple and lovely, this interactive offering would make a delightful addition to any board-book collection for infants and...
Infants and toddlers are invited to engage in a game of peekaboo with an assortment of cuddly critters.
Though no words appear until the final pages, children will know just what to do here. Each right-hand page features an animal covering its eyes with its paws or wings. Instinctively, little ones will move these paws and wings, which are large, sturdy flaps, to find themselves playing peekaboo with a bear, fox, pig, dog, cat, porcupine, and owl. The animals are beautifully rendered in watercolor with fastidious attention to detail. Ferri has skillfully bestowed each character with a distinctive expression, though they all appear gentle and a little amused to be playing this game. The stark white backgrounds work well, as they keep the focus on the animals and the peekaboo action. The final pages provide a small surprise and an additional interactive opportunity; Caucasian hands cover a mirror, and accompanying text reads: “Peekaboo! Is it YOU?”
Simple and lovely, this interactive offering would make a delightful addition to any board-book collection for infants and toddlers. (Board book. 1-3)Pub Date: April 1, 2015
ISBN: 978-988-8240-93-7
Page Count: 16
Publisher: minedition
Review Posted Online: May 5, 2015
Kirkus Reviews Issue: July 1, 2015
While the youngster was pleasingly more self-reliant and self-assured in previous offerings, his play and his interactions...
As in In the Garden and In the Woods (both 2012), a young boy enjoys life in the great outdoors.
Here, he delights in a day at the beach. One, two or three words on each page make up the rhyming text: “Sun Sky / Shore Boy // Sand Pail / Spade Toy.” The youngster makes a sand birthday cake with his shovel and pail, but an inevitable wave destroys it. His mother, nearby, comforts him with a picnic lunch and a “Lap Nap” as he dreams of the sea. Oliphant’s soft drawings, which look to be a mix of watercolor and colored pencil, capture the flow of sand and water well, though beach-going children will wonder at the pair’s solitude on this apparently perfect summer day.
While the youngster was pleasingly more self-reliant and self-assured in previous offerings, his play and his interactions with the natural world continue to ring true. (Board book. 18 mos.-3)Pub Date: May 1, 2013
ISBN: 978-1-56145-583-6
Page Count: 22
Publisher: Peachtree
Review Posted Online: May 14, 2013
Kirkus Reviews Issue: July 1, 2013
While a clever idea, as young children are often obsessed with bags and packs, parents wishing to avoid the overt marketing...
A branded lift-the-flap offering featuring five Skip Hop animal backpacks.
On each double-page spread, a creature uses the Skip Hop pack that it resembles. A bee, which is somehow able to wear a backpack despite (impossibly) having no limbs at all, is paired with the popular bee pack, and a penguin sports a penguin bag. On the left-hand page, the toddlerlike, cartoon animals, in subtly muted colors, are shown either on their way to school or engaged in preschool classroom activities. The facing page is a large representation of the Skip Hop backpack, the bottom-half of which is a relatively sturdy flap. The text, with a gentle rhyme scheme, consists of a simple first-person statement made by the character in the spotlight, along with a question encouraging readers to open the flap: “I’m a little Ladybug. I love story time best! / What food is inside my backpack?” The answer to the query is on the lower half of the flap, which opens down: “Bugs! Didn’t you guess?” The last two pages inform readers that school is over and show all the backpacks, again bearing flaps, lined up in classroom cubbies. Behind the flaps, the packs contain artwork created by the animals that relate to their interests, such as the elephant with a picture of the savanna and the monkey with a drawing of a tree.
While a clever idea, as young children are often obsessed with bags and packs, parents wishing to avoid the overt marketing ploy should seek another title. (Board book. 18 mos.-3)Pub Date: June 25, 2013
ISBN: 978-0-545-49749-7
Page Count: 12
Publisher: Cartwheel/Scholastic
Review Posted Online: June 16, 2013
Kirkus Reviews Issue: July 1, 2013
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