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32 pp.
| Greenwillow
| April, 2002
|
TradeISBN 0-688-15543-X$$15.95
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LibraryISBN 0-688-15544-8$$15.89
(3)
K-3
Illustrated by
Nancy Winslow Parker.
This is the author-illustrator team's eighth rebus book, and its cumulative formula will help new readers or even nonreaders tell the amusing tale themselves. On a field trip to the zoo, a young boy loses items of clothing as he encounters different animals and ends up in a zookeeper's uniform. The clear and simple illustrations carry the story along.
32 pp.
| Greenwillow
| April, 2001
|
TradeISBN 0-688-17380-2$$15.95
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LibraryISBN 0-688-17381-0$$15.89
(2)
PS
Illustrated by
Nancy Winslow Parker.
A young boy energetically demands items that will make him feel better--a box of tissues, a blanket, the cat, jigsaw puzzles, TV cartoons. . . . Rebus pictures stand in for each item on the list so that children can easily join in "reading" the rhyming, cumulative text. Colorful pictures of the boy's comfortable surroundings and favorite things reinforce the appeal of staying home.
Reviewer: Lauren Adams
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
May, 2001
(3)
K-3
Illustrated by
Nancy Winslow Parker.
This rebus-filled cumulative rhyme begins with an engineer's cap and finishes with a whistle at the gate. The book ends with a somewhat drawn-out rhyming nag from Mom about picking up toy trains before bedtime, but otherwise, Neitzel's text is entertaining. Parker's illustrations of trains and objects are clear and appealing in both the larger pictures and the small rebuses.