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Baby Animals: A Very First Picture Book.
Nicola Tuxworth.
Subject Headings:
Preschool / Ages 1 - 4.
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As little ones move from board books into picture books with "regular" paper pages, concept books still have a place in their home libraries. As the title clearly indicates, the book's focus is on young animals: chicks, rabbits, piglets, kittens, foals, ducklings, puppies and kids. Each pair of facing pages contains three or four colour photographs which show the baby animal either alone, with a parent animal, or with one of two toddlers, a boy and a girl. While there is brief, caption-like text accompanying the photos, adult readers and their young audiences may want to tell their own stories about the pictures. A final pair of facing pages says, "We're all baby animals. Do you know our names?" Oddly, this closing "quiz" omits three of the book's babies. As well, the pictures in these final pages are not rendered in the same scale, a situation which could leave those children who have never seen the real animals with some misconceptions about the creatures' true sizes. Nonetheless, the book's photos are winningly charming, and Baby Animals should get a good response for its intended preschool audience.
Recommended.
Dave Jenkinson teaches courses in children's and adolescent literature in the Faculty of Education, University of Manitoba.
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Published by
The Manitoba Library Association
ISSN 1201-9364
TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR THIS ISSUE - JANUARY 30, 1998.
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