Children's Book Reviews
Page Two of ThreeLittle Lamb Finger Puppet Book
Chronicle Books, February, 2006Picture Book, 12 pages
ISBN: 0811852350
Ages Baby and up
Ordering information:
Amazon.com
The Little Lamb is a small hardcover picture book that includes an embedded
lamb finger puppet. The puppet can interact with the story and do some of
the activities in the book. For example, where the book says the lamb "sniffs
the flowers" the finger puppet can be moved so that the lamb sniffs the
pictures of the flowers. And where it says "gaze up at all the clouds that he
sees!" the lamb puppet can be moved so he is looking up at the clouds in the
book. It is a very cute story that
is made even more entertaining with the addition of the lamb finger puppet.
At the end of the book the sun goes down and it is time for the little lamb to go to sleep.
Clever parents
will use this as an opportunity to segue from the little lamb's bed time to
the children bed time. A similar story and finger puppet book called
Little
Bee Finger Puppet Book is equally entertaining for small children.
Mom and Dad Are Palindromes by Mark Shulman and Adam McCauley
Chronicle Books, June, 2006Picture Book, 36 pages
ISBN: 0811843289
Ages 9 and up
Ordering information:
Amazon.com
Any writer who can write a funny book about word games deserves congratulations and
praise from all the adults who have struggled to interest the young in such mind-building
exercises. Mark Shulman takes the palindrome (a word, verse, or sentence that reads
the same backward or forward) as the basis for his new picture book.
The first problem faced by Bob, the perplexed hero, is that he becomes part of the
teacher's lesson on palindromes -- to his complete humiliation. Next, poor Bob, who
runs home for comfort, finds that there is a palindrome awaiting him at every turn:
his dog (Otto), his mom and his dad. As Bob's verbal misadventures pile up,
the reader is challenged to locate 101 palindromes lurking on every page.
Mom and Dad are Palindromes belongs on classroom shelves and in the
homes of ambitious parents who are trying hard to raise educated and verbal
children with powerful minds.
--Sarah Reaves White
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