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Calling All Toddlers
Published 1998 |
This collection of short verses features illustrations of sweet-faced young children at play. While most of the activities (splashing, stomping, clapping, etc.) are age appropriate and the individual spreads are attractive, the book lacks an overall focus. Many of the rhymes are awkward and dont scan well when read aloud. On one spread, the children bend and stretch their bodies to form a variety of shapesa square, a triangle, a rectangle, a starbut the shapes are not delineated clearly enough for this audience. The last poem, Good-bye, pales in comparison to Margaret Wise Browns Goodnight Moon (HarperCollins, 1947). Good-bye kitten/Good-bye floor,/Good-bye curtains/Good-bye door./Good-bye doll/Good-bye spoon, Good-bye house/See you soon. |
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