The rhymes work, though uneven syllable counts in some stanzas interrupt the smooth flow of the verse. Oliphant's expressive and light-filled watercolors clearly depict the child's emotions-eager excitement on the way to the park, delight at the kite's flight in the wind, shock when the kite breaks free, dejection, and finally relief and amazement. Her new slice-of-life story stars an equally joyful little girl who takes pleasure in flying a new kite while not venturing far off the walkway. Spurr's earlier board books ( In the Garden and At the Beach, both 2012 In the Woods, 2013) featured an adventuresome little boy. The joys of counting combine with pretty art and homage to Goodnight Moon. This seems compatible with the patronizing author’s note to adults, which accuses “the media” of indoctrinating children with fear of math “in our country.” Regardless, this sweet treatment of numbers and counting may be good prophylaxis against math phobia. Each home’s décor, and the array and types of toys and accoutrements within, shows a decidedly upscale, Western milieu. Each spread gives multiple opportunities to practice counting to its particular number for example, the page for “four” includes four bottles of shampoo and four inlaid dots on a stool-beyond the four objects mentioned in the accompanying rhyme. The white backgrounds of the pages help to emphasize the bold representations of the numbers in both written and numerical forms. I’ll see you soon.” With each number comes a different part in a toddler’s evening routine, including dinner, putting away toys, bathtime, and a bedtime story. The pastel palette and soft, rounded contours of people and things add to the sleepy litany of the poems, beginning with “Goodnight, one fork. This bedtime book offers simple rhymes, celebrates the numbers one through 10, and encourages the counting of objects.Įach double-page spread shows a different toddler-and-caregiver pair, with careful attention to different skin tones, hair types, genders, and eye shapes. Skin tones are not always realistic, but they are varied, and there is careful gender distribution among the professions.Ī pleasant introduction to the concept of careers. These illustrations have a cubist flair and off-primary color palette that set them apart from typical board books. For example, "He is brave, wears a special suit, and drives a big red truck" can really only point to a “firefighter.” The flaps are large and sturdy and add to the illustrations when lifted. The clues are basic enough that even very young readers will be able to make a solid guess. The book's final double-page spread describes the importance of all the jobs and how they all come together to make a community work. These jobs are quite varied, ranging from teachers to construction workers to doctors. Upon lifting the flap, readers are presented with an image of an adult and that person’s profession. In this lift-the-flap book, little readers are asked "Who's that?" and then given a few clues to who could be under the flap. Little ones explore the different jobs they may aspire to.
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