http://www.hbook.com/2011/09/news/notes-from-the-horn-book/size-matters-in-picture-books/ Publications about books for children and young adults Tue, 14 May 2013 17:58:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://www.hbook.com/2011/09/news/notes-from-the-horn-book/size-matters-in-picture-books/#comment-16538 Notes from the Horn Book – September, 2011 — The Horn Book Tue, 17 Jul 2012 16:05:15 +0000 http://www.hbook.com/?p=4820#comment-16538 [...] The pond gets crowded when Ken Kimura’s 999 Tadpoles transform into 999 frogs, but relocation is hazardous: a hungry hawk nabs Father. Mother’s quick thinking saves the day as she and all the young ones grab on. The wiggling, complaining string of frogs becomes too much for the hawk, which drops them right into a commodious new pond. There’s not a word misplaced in the funny text, and Yasunari Murakami’s illustrations are full of lively movement. (3–6 years) Read more… [...] [...] The pond gets crowded when Ken Kimura’s 999 Tadpoles transform into 999 frogs, but relocation is hazardous: a hungry hawk nabs Father. Mother’s quick thinking saves the day as she and all the young ones grab on. The wiggling, complaining string of frogs becomes too much for the hawk, which drops them right into a commodious new pond. There’s not a word misplaced in the funny text, and Yasunari Murakami’s illustrations are full of lively movement. (3–6 years) Read more… [...]

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