On Account of the Gum has a starred review from Kirkus. Chronicle offers a free, downloadable activity kit. The star of the show – not the gum, the kid – has facial expressions that you’ll recognize all too well and laugh along with, and the meter of the rhyme makes for such fun reading you’ll speed up in some parts, leave dramatic pauses for others. This is a perfect readaloud that will have you laughing along with your kiddos. The first solutions seem simple enough – a scissor to cut it out, some butter to grease it up and slide it off – but nothing works, and the attempts to liberate the gum get sillier and crazier, involving rabbits, bacon and noodles, even a vacuum cleaner. Laugh-out-loud cumulative story about an unfortunate kid who falls asleep while chewing gum and wakes to discover the sticky surprise.
Wolfboy is an Indie Next choice and has a starred review from Kirkus. Absolute fun for storytime! If you have money for Play-Doh in your budget, consider little grab and go kits so storytime attendees can create their own Wolfboys and rabbits. Sentences are short, easy to read, and perfect for new and emerging readers. There’s gorgeous texture and bright color story text is yellow and pops nicely against the black pages. If you have the space, stomp and fuss along! Bold artwork features claymation figures that will delight littles.
Fussy.”) offer opportunities for readers to chime in. Repetitive phrases and cumulative, emphasized words (“Hungry. Wolfboy is relatable to anyone – who doesn’t get cranky when they need something to eat? – but toddlers and preschoolers, who can turn from happy to hangry on the turn of a dime, will see themselves in the bright blue figure. Award-winning art director Andy Harkness creates a funny, cumulative tale that will have little readers giggling and howling along with the hungry, hangry Wolfboy. The rabbits scramble around in the background, evading him… but what happens when Wolfboy finally catches up with them? In this adorable, claymation-illustrated story, things aren’t what they seem. 2021, Bloomsbury Children’s Books), $17.99, ISBN: 9781547604425Ī fussy, drooly, growly Wolfboy storms through the forest, howling for rabbits. Posted in picture books, Preschool Reads, Toddler Reads Hungry, Howly, Wolfboy!
GOOFY AND THE TIGER HUNTER WHITMAN BOOKS MOVIE
We get frightened librarians and towering T-Rexes holding stacks of books (pshaw, I say like we’ve never seen dinosaurs in the library before) dinos holding court in classrooms and in Parliament, and demanding luxuries like larger seats in the movie theatre! Get your dinosaur toys out and let them read along with you as you take your Kiddos on this cartoonish, wild, book-loving adventure. Imagine? Giggle-worthy, with illustrations that show the power of books exploding all over the spreads, Never Show a T-Rex a Book! is all about imagination and embracing the fun of reading. Which could lead to the first dinosaur in government, the education of other dinosaurs, and a WORLD DINOSAUR TAKEOVER.
In this adorable nod to cumulative favorites like Laura Numeroff’s If You Give a… series, Never Show a T-Rex a Book! warns readers against letting their T-Rexes get hold of a book… because then they’ll want more, naturally! A little girl starts the story off, reading to her dinosaur toys, when her imagination takes her on a thrill ride: her T-Rex becomes real, and demands a trip to the library – and an all-night reading marathon that will result in a VERY clever dinosaur. Never Show a T-Rex a Book!, by Rashmi Sirdeshpande/Illustrated by Diane Ewen, (Jan. Posted in picture books, Preschool Reads Never Show a T-Rex a Book! Or else… A good rhyme scheme, a funny story, and definite flannel potential makes this a delightful storytime choice. Readers are challenged to look for the tiny mouse in every spread – he’s not always that easy to find! – and the friendly, colorful art invites readers to join right in with the fun. A humorous story with a good message about the need for both having one’s own space and making time for connection, ALONE! is a relatable book, especially these days when so many of us are living on top of one another. But he discovers that maybe being all alone all the time isn’t so great after all.
When the vet brings in a friend and his son, Billy has had far too much and heads out to find a place where he can be ALONE. Billy McGill is a boy who lives all alone on the top of a hill, and he’s very happy that way: until a mouse finds his way into Billy’s home! Naturally, Billy has to get back to the status quo, so he goes and gets a cat, which leads to getting a dog, a bear, a tiger, and ultimately, a veterinarian to check on the tiger, who’s developed a cold. This rhyming, cumulative tale is hilarious fun with a seek-and-find.