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Summary
Summary
Helen Oxenbury's delightful board books, featuring her sweet and cuddly babies at play, are back with a whole new look.
Summary
Helen Oxenbury's delightful board books, featuring her sweet and cuddly babies at play, are back with a whole new look.
Author Notes
Helen Oxenbury is the renowned illustrator of many classic picture books, including We're Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen and The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig by Eugene Trivizas. Ms. Oxenbury lives with her husband, illustrator John Burningham, in North London.
Reviews (6)
School Library Journal Review
PreS Each of these board books consists of four double-page illustrations with a brief rhyming action verse. Chubby little toddlers engaged in a variety of activities spill off the pages in lively arrangements. Close-up views show multi-ethnic babies playing, bathing, eating, swinging, sleeping, etc. The watercolors, in bright pastels with pencil outline, are clear and appealing on a white background. The primary disadvantage of this set is the oversize format (8 square). Tots will find these books hard to hold in their hands, and turning the pages will be frustrating. Older preschoolers who could manipulate the pages will find little story or plot to hold their interest. However, with an adult or older child turning the pages, these books will be enjoyed by the intended audience. Nancy Kewish, Cuyahoga County Public Library, Cleveland (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
These delightful, action-filled ""Big Board Books"" show toddlers--black, white and Oriental--interacting with each other and care-givers of both sexes. A single line of rhyming text is just right for explaining the action. The text of ""All Fall Down"" goes: ""Singing all together, running round and round, bouncy, bouncy, on the bed, all fall down. Oxenbury's illustrations in soft colors sweep across the double page. Her round and sturdy toddlers are expressive and individual. Toddlers will enjoy the little visual dramas: which dancing baby may lose his pants, which toddler is trying to take the cookie from his neighbor's tray, which baby is trying to comb her own hair, which baby sucks his thumb. Sturdy, glossy, these 8(apple)"" square board books open flat for easy viewing. Excellent choices for independent browsing and reading aloud. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
Ages 10 mo.-2 years. It's a jolly group of babies that populates these four large board books that have at their heart an appreciation of a baby's never-ending efforts to master the environment. In each of these titles babies of diverse ethnic origin engage in all sorts of action; the title activity may start things off, but it's by no means the only thing that's going on. In All Fall Down, for example, the tykes are singing, running around, bouncing on the bed, and then falling down. In Clap Hands the babies dance and spin, eat a snack, bang on pots, and wave to their parents. The books' size is large by board-book standards, and the pictures are equally large scale. The babies are simply drawn with a minimum of lines, so the compositions are easy to see yet, as in the author's smaller board books, there is no lack of wit or grace. These are good choices for exposing the youngest children to the enjoyment of books. DMW.
School Library Journal Review
PreS Each of these board books consists of four double-page illustrations with a brief rhyming action verse. Chubby little toddlers engaged in a variety of activities spill off the pages in lively arrangements. Close-up views show multi-ethnic babies playing, bathing, eating, swinging, sleeping, etc. The watercolors, in bright pastels with pencil outline, are clear and appealing on a white background. The primary disadvantage of this set is the oversize format (8 square). Tots will find these books hard to hold in their hands, and turning the pages will be frustrating. Older preschoolers who could manipulate the pages will find little story or plot to hold their interest. However, with an adult or older child turning the pages, these books will be enjoyed by the intended audience. Nancy Kewish, Cuyahoga County Public Library, Cleveland (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
These delightful, action-filled ""Big Board Books"" show toddlers--black, white and Oriental--interacting with each other and care-givers of both sexes. A single line of rhyming text is just right for explaining the action. The text of ""All Fall Down"" goes: ""Singing all together, running round and round, bouncy, bouncy, on the bed, all fall down. Oxenbury's illustrations in soft colors sweep across the double page. Her round and sturdy toddlers are expressive and individual. Toddlers will enjoy the little visual dramas: which dancing baby may lose his pants, which toddler is trying to take the cookie from his neighbor's tray, which baby is trying to comb her own hair, which baby sucks his thumb. Sturdy, glossy, these 8(apple)"" square board books open flat for easy viewing. Excellent choices for independent browsing and reading aloud. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
Ages 10 mo.-2 years. It's a jolly group of babies that populates these four large board books that have at their heart an appreciation of a baby's never-ending efforts to master the environment. In each of these titles babies of diverse ethnic origin engage in all sorts of action; the title activity may start things off, but it's by no means the only thing that's going on. In All Fall Down, for example, the tykes are singing, running around, bouncing on the bed, and then falling down. In Clap Hands the babies dance and spin, eat a snack, bang on pots, and wave to their parents. The books' size is large by board-book standards, and the pictures are equally large scale. The babies are simply drawn with a minimum of lines, so the compositions are easy to see yet, as in the author's smaller board books, there is no lack of wit or grace. These are good choices for exposing the youngest children to the enjoyment of books. DMW.