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I Like Vegetables. Lorena Siminovich. 2011. Candlewick Press. 10 pages.
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InsideOutsidePeasI Like Vegetables is one of four titles available in Lorena Siminovich's Petit Collage series published by Candlewick. Previous titles include:
I Like Toys (a concept board book about shapes),
I Like Fruit (a concept board book about colors), and
I Like Bugs (a concept board book about counting to five). And I must admit it is one of the best in the series. I thought it was really clever to use vegetables to show opposites! That harvest time is a great time to learn about opposites. The opposites included in the book are: above/below, inside/outside, tall/short, big/little, and empty/full.
It is a touch-and-feel book. And I enjoyed those elements on these pages. I especially liked the carrots and the peas! Well, for that matter I loved the corn too! If I'm being honest, I loved it all! I just *wish* that a touch-and-feel book would try a little harder to get the pumpkin right. Because I am relatively sure that most pumpkins do not feel velvet-like.
It is easy to recommend this one, to recommend the whole series! I just love the art and design of these!!!
© 2011 Becky Laney of
Young Readers
I Like Toys. Lorena Siminovich. 2011. Candlewick Press. 10 pages.
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Triangleplayhousespinning topsailboatI was a big, big fan of Lorena Siminovich's
I Like Bugs and
I Like Fruit. So I was super-excited to learn that there were two new books in the Petit Collage series: I Like Toys and I Like Vegetables.
I Like Toys is a concept board book about shapes. The circle shape can be found in a ball, a yo-yo, and the tires on a car; the square shape can be found in a jack-in-the-box, a box, and a tower of blocks. Four shapes are includes in all: triangle, rectangle, square, and circle. Each page has a touch-and-feel element to it (the tires on the car, the sail on the sailboat, a block in the block tower, etc.
The art and design of this one makes it fun. While I wouldn't say this is my
favorite book in the series, I can easily say that I'd recommend the series as a whole. The whole series is high quality.
© 2011 Becky Laney of
Young Readers
I Like Bugs. Lorena Siminovich. 2010. March 2010. Candlewick. 10 pages.
I'll be honest. I don't like bugs. But. I do like I Like Bugs. I like it so, so much! I Like Bugs is a touch-and-feel book and a counting book. What are we counting? Bugs, of course!
1 one dragonfly
2 two butterflies
3 three beetles
I liked the different textures. I especially liked the texture for the beetles. I liked the bright, bold colors. The bright blue butterflies and the red flowers especially. Overall, I really enjoyed the art, the illustrations. The collage aspects made this board book extra special.
I would definitely recommend this one!
© Becky Laney of
Young Readers
This is a Fisher-Price board book published by HarperCollins. (I couldn't find any information on the author.) 2009.
Snuggly Time is "a soft to touch" book for babies. (Why they couldn't say that it was a touch-and-feel book, I'm not sure...) (The recommended age is 6 months and up.) What's this one about? The things in a baby's life that are soft and touchable. A blanket. A towel. A teddy bear. A pair of pajamas. Etc. It blends real photographs with cartoon illustrations. (I find that slightly strange, but that could just be me.)
My blanket keeps me warm and cozy.
Touch my soft blanket.
I love to crawl on the rug.
Feel the fuzzy rug.
© Becky Laney of
Young Readers
Inches, Alison. 2009. I Love Fall! Illustrated by Hiroe Nakata.
I like the idea of this concept book. It's a touch and feel book about the fall season. I don't know about you, but there's something inviting about this little girl. It makes me want to like the book.
I love fall!
In the fall, the air is chilly,
but my scarf feels warm and woolly.
Scritch, scratch!
Rub my woolly scarf!
I think this one works for the most part. (Especially if you're not picky). But it's not quite right either. The scarf doesn't feel woolly. It feels soft and fleecy. Or perhaps soft and velvety. (Definitely not something you could scritch or scratch. Just saying.) And this is the case with so many of the touch-and-feel items. The "smooth pumpkin" doesn't come close to feeling like an actual pumpkin. It feels like plastic or vinyl. (It's shiny and reflective too.) Granted I haven't felt up all that many pumpkins in my lifetime, but smooth isn't the first thing that comes to mind. One other small thing that I noticed, and then I'll be quiet.
Grandma bakes pumpkins
and apple treats.
She gives me yummy pies
that are warm and sweet.
Crinkle, crinkle!
Feel the shiny pie tin that
I put in my basket.
Anyone want to tell me exactly how shiny feels? Shiny is something that you see with your eyes, not touch with your fingers. The pie tin--which is the touchable part of this spread--actually comes closest to feeling like the object it is supposed to depict (unlike the smooth pumpkin and dry leaves), but the feeling isn't shiny. (I should also note that they got the wicker basket part right of this touch-and-feel.)
© Becky Laney of
Young Readers
I really enjoyed Karma Wilson's Beautiful Babies. It's a touch-and-feel board book with a fun theme: babies--baby animals to be exact. What's more fun than 'petting' baby animals? Simple text accompanies the pictures. "In the spring when things turn green, many babies can be seen..." I really like the inclusion of the mirror at the end of the book. "But none are as sweet as baby You! Oh, you beautiful baby!" Mirrors are something that (many) babies just find fascinating. So this one is cute and fun.
© Becky Laney of Young Readers
Welcome Winter is a delightful book; it is one of the Little Scholastic books published by Scholastic. It's designed to appeal to the baby to two crowd. It's a board book. It's a touch-and-feel book. And it's a concept book--the concept being winter one of the four seasons of the year.
Texas babies may not find much familiar with Welcome Winter. (Though of course there was that snow storm last year that surprised everyone.) But whether you are expecting snow or not, this book is a fun little addition to your library.
Here is how it begins, "It's winter! Snowflakes fall in front of your eyes."
There is much to do in this one. I loved running my fingers across the crinkled plastic (not sure of exact medium???) to make the snow crunching noise. And the plush hat that was oh-so-soft was fun as well.
© Becky Laney of Young Readers
Thanks for the suggestion. Our little guy LOVES mirrors at the ends of books (we have all of Nina Laden's board books like that - reviewed on our site if you're interested). He developed a habit of kissing the mirror at the end every time. Luckily they're not library books. :)