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PreS-Gr 2—Bold electric colors flutter on each
spread of this high-flying adventure that's perfect for young
fans of Hooray for Fish! The art is rendered in gouache, and the
text is hand-lettered in ink. Readers are invited to pretend they
are various birds as pages provide playful rhyme and expressive
action verbs. "Swoop up and down,/Swoop round and round./Scratch
the ground with your feet./Catch a fly with your beak." Jovial
illustrations surrounded in bright colors and enhanced with thick
black outlines encourage audience participation. "The sun is
up,/the sky is blue./Wake up and shout 'Cock-a-doodle-doo!' "
Charming endpapers show various birds wide awake in the beginning
of the book and fast a at the end, except for one
bright-eyed owl that is fast a in the opening endpapers and
wide awake as readers turn the final page. This is a great
opening for extension activities with older readers on nocturnal
birds. VERDICT Rhyming text and bright illustrations make this a
superb choice for storytime groups. Pair it with Kevin Henkes's
Birds, Jennifer Ward's Mama Built a Little Nest, and Jeremy
Tankard's Grumpy Bird for a feathered friend storytime.
Recommended for all picture book collections.—Melissa Smith,
Royal Oak Public Library, MI
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Review
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Bold electric colors flutter on each spread of this
high-flying adventure that’s perfect for young fans of Hooray for
Fish! ... Rhyming text and bright illustrations make this a
superb choice for storytime groups.
—School Library Journal (starred review)
If you’ve been sitting too long and too quietly through
storytime, get off your perch and onto your webbed, clawed, or
taloned feet and move...with the energy generated by this lively
offering, don’t expect naptime to arrive on cue.
—Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books (starred review)
…[T]he creatures in "Hooray for Birds!" (Candlewick, 40 pages,
$15.99) all but vibrate with brilliant colors. In gouache
paintings on bright backgrounds, Lucy Cousins, the creator of the
popular "Maisy" books, depicts swans and starlings, guinea fowl
and cardinals, and a resplendent peacock. With each picture comes
an exhortation for 2- to 5-year-olds to throw themselves into
avian imitations: "Waddle like a penguin in the snow / Run like
an ostrich, go, go, go!"
—The Wall Street Journal
An exuberant celebration of birds of all kinds...The cozy ending
showing a baby parrot cuddling up close with Mama in his nest and
the rear endpapers of ing birds are perfect for naptime. All
in all, it's a great way to introduce bird behavior without
lecturing—young children will feel like hopping, pecking, and
soaring with these exuberant feathered friends.
—Kirkus Reviews
Maisy creator Cousins uses her signature brand of punchy, thickly
outlined gouache paintings to introduce an active menagerie of
birds....a rousing pick for reading (and chirping) aloud.
—Publishers Weekly
Twelve years after Hooray for Fish!, Cousins invites listeners to
join in as part of the boisterous flock...The book’s large size
and format, along with the second-person narration and bold
illustrations, create a natural rtunity for children to
become a physical part of the story.
—The Horn Book
Cousins’ exquisite portrayals of our feathered friends will
delight fledgling readers and listeners and have them flapping
their wings for more.
—Booklist Online
This sprightly picture book provides him and his cohorts with
delightful introduction to the diversity and activity of these
feathered friends.
—San Francisco Chronicle
This book will hold the attention of even the smallest
bird-watchers, whether at story time or just before settling into
their cozy nests to .
—Washington Parent
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