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CM . . .
. Volume XVII Number 17. . . .January 7, 2011
excerpt:
Marthe Jocelyn has teamed up with her 19-year-old daughter, Nell, currently a student at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, to produce another winner with the preschool set and their parents. The very brief rhyming text, coupled with the pair�s collage illustrations, reveals an interracial friendship between two young girls while also showing their feather/hair ribbon interaction with a red-breasted bird, with all of the action occurring over a single day. As the book�s title indicates, the volume�s �learning� aspect is the young reader�s recognizing things that are presented either as singles or in pairs. On a first reading, the young listener/viewer will undoubtedly focus principally on the ones and twos that are specifically identified in the text. However, the Jocelyns� illustrations offer so many more opportunities to find other ones and twos.
Highly Recommended. Dave Jenkinson, CM�s editor, resides in one house in Winnipeg, MB, that contains many twos.
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In addition to all the singles and doubles that are incorporated within the illustrations on each pair of facing pages, the Jocelyns have also created a border that runs across the bottom of every page and which contains items that relate to the pages� �theme.� For instance, the pages that provide an overhead view of a park have a bottom border that contains objects that the park�s visitors might use there, things such as baseball gloves and a skipping rope. Those same two pages also have a �Where�s Waldo?� quality as viewers seek to locate the two girls among the crowd of people. The closing three pages have a very comforting quality to them as youngsters observe the two friends fast asleep in a single bed, accompanied by their �teddy bears,� while mother bird settles on her nest in which the book�s opening �two eggs� have been replaced by a pair of nestlings.