Not only are the pictures beautiful, but I even laughed out loud at the hilarity illustrated in one of the pictures. His expression, the total ridiculousness of the situation, it was comic genius. As for the rhyming text, well, I am actually usually not a big fan of rhyming verse in children's books. It is just hard to do well and most of the time it becomes quite tedious, and I find myself just paraphrasing. Quite surprisingly that is NOT the case with this book. Which is quite the feat in my eyes. Very few people can pull of rhyming text and make it work. The pace is good, and not tedious and the storyline is exciting, funny and not repetitive. And the illustrations are wonderful! The colors throughout the book are vibrant and the compositions have just the right amount of detail. We checked it out from the library, but now it is on our "to get" list. Because it is a hit for both parents and kids in our house.
Have you read it? What do you think about it?
looks fun! i'll have to check it out from our library (if they have it..)
ReplyDeletei love bill peet's rhyming!