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This series of books, designed for toddlers who are ready to move beyond board books, explores a wide range of subjects, from first feelings and first achievements, to first words and concepts. Written by well-known authors and artists using bright contemporary illustrations, these sturdy books are ideal for beginning readers or for reading aloud.This gentle rhyme tells the story of one little girl's busy day at preschool. Toddlers will love counting the many things that make up her day.
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School Library Journal Review
PreS-These books help fill a need for simple, short, and graphically interesting stories for children not yet ready for full-length stories. The artwork is large, colorful, and well matched to the texts. One Smiling Sister, told in rhyme, introduces the numbers 1 to 10 through events and people in a preschooler's typical day at home and in school. Grumble-Rumble! follows a young kangaroo that skips breakfast to go out to play and is then frightened by what she thinks is a monster, only to learn that it is her empty stomach grumbling. In Ned's Rainbow, a little boy is sad when he can't touch the rainbow, so his clever mother paints one on his wall. Walsh's colorful rainbows on every page make the book lovely to look at, and the text is simple and realistic. Appealing characters and familiar settings and situations will make these titles popular with the preschool set.-JoAnn Jonas, Carlsbad City Library, San Diego, CA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
Exuberant rhymes describe an energetic preschoolers day in this colorful counting book. Readers can happily count along with the smiling sister as she bustles through her busy schedule. The fun begins at breakfast, as brother and sister sit down to eat. After that, its off to preschool for sister, where a plethora of counting opportunities aboundfrom the number of children participating in story time to how many doughnuts are available at snack time. Coats (One Hungry Baby, 1994) focuses on everyday items and circumstances familiar to young children, such as three friends walking hand-in-hand to playgroup and five jars of paint await a budding artists inspiration. Several lines of verse introduce each new number, with a full-color, two-page spread accompanying the rhyme. The featured number is highlighted via capitalization, although the text lacks any visual representation of the numeral itself. (NINE fingers pointing up, reaching very high. / Twinkle, twinkle, little star! / Lets all touch the sky.) Bolams ( Louies Goose , 1999) full-bleed illustrations offer vibrantly colored scenes from a childs day, depicting a merry assortment of multicultural children doing what children do best: namely, play. Several of the illustrations offer a slight counting challenge, e.g., for the seven kangaroos hopping, the accompanying picture reveals an entire playground full of frolicking children, and its up to readers to seek out the ones imitating the bouncy beasts. Lively rhymes about fun activities combined with spirited pictures make this one young readers will want to hear over and again. (Picture book. 1-4)