Add this one to my roster of "weird themes" - this one is about animals jumping. It was great fun, if you're wondering, especially Jump! which seems created for wild and active toddlers.
Oops-a-Daisy!
Claire Freedman, illustrated by Gaby Hansen
ISBN: 1589250370
Pastels, soft edges, and a gentle "moral" to keep trying.
This one is very sweet. Little Bunny is discouraged by her difficulties in learning to jump - it's so hard to get her feet to do what she asks, and there's so much to keep track of all at the same time! Anyone, even adults learning a new physical skill, can sympathize with the frustration and despair of ever getting it "right." But Mama Rabbit is always nearby, and she deflects worries and defeatism by pointing out the other "Little" animals learning to do things also; Mouse trying to climb a grass stem, Badger (with Daddy Badger!!) digging, Duck swimming in circles. Daisy Bunny relaxes and continues to try, knowing that everyone tries and fails.
Good length for my little ones, with full-spread illustrations to keep their attention during the longer patches of reading.
Jump!
Scott M. Fischer
ISBN: 9781416978848
Super-bright cartoonish animals with exaggerated features and almost no text to clutter the page.
I LOVE IT! Starting with a bug on a jug, the animals encounter something bigger and badder, each time JUMP!ing out of the way, til we get to the shark vs the whale, and we get a vertical spread instead of the normal horizontal flow.
If You're Hoppy
April Pulley Sayre, illustrated by Jackie Urbanovic
ISBN: 9780061566349
A very 'interactive' and non-traditional text, using the "If You're Happy and you Know It" rhyme to riff off of.
This one's cute, especially when it gets to "if you're slimy and scaly and mean, you're a... oh, never mind" with a multicolored shadow of a creepy monster on the page and reveals it at the end to be the frog from the start of the story. Very fun, and a great ending for the day. Any book with a surprise reveal pterodactyl is a good book.
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