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From Head to Toe Big Book

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Binding : Paperback
EAN : 9780061119729
ISBN : 0061119725
Label : HarperFestival
Manufacturer : HarperFestival
Number of pages : 32
Publication date : 2007-06-01
Publisher : HarperFestival
Release date : 2007-05-29
Title : From Head to Toe Big Book
Languages : Array
Number of items : 1
Studio : HarperFestival

Editorial reviews

Product Description

Are you ready?
Here we go!
Move yourself
From Head to Toe

I can do it! That's what kids will say when they wiggle, stomp, thump, and bend across the pages of this book. Laughter and squeals of delight will abound as boys and girls (and their elders, too!) participate in the action.

Customer reviews

review by: mami2boys date: 2008-10-30 rating:

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat reading fun!!!!
this is a great interactive book. my 2.5 year old loves the challenge question after every animal 'can you do it??' our fav is the donkey kick. the book is huge. i did not know that. probably the reason why it is so expensive....but well worth it....definitely two thumbs up!!!!

review by: 1st Grade teacher date: 2008-10-02 rating:

Up and moving!
I don't think I've ever quite understood the whole Eric Carle thing. Still, I have to hand it him that his paintins are incredible and the books are simple enough one can force a dozen school lessons from them. This particular one gives repetition to the "I can" phrase as kids imitate the movements of various animals--that's a fun side effect.

review by: date: 2008-09-25 rating:

Eric Carle does it again!
Our 20 month old and 3 year old boys love this Eric Carle gem. It combines beautiful pictures of animals with simple rhythmic text showing body parts and actions -- turning heads, bending necks, raising shoulders, arching backs and others. Best of all, it allows active participation by imitating what is on the page. We have purchased quite a few books but this one is magic.

review by: date: 2008-06-24 rating:

Great book!
My 18 month old son loves this book! He watched me do the movements as I read it and now he does them on his own when I read the book! Very cute and interactive.

review by: Connie date: 2008-06-24 rating:

Good "move around" type of story
In this book, various animals and children move parts of their body and encourage other children to do so.

Eric Carle is truly a master of this kind of text. Each spread follows the same repetitive structure - "I'm a $ANIMAL and I can $VERB my $BODYPART - can you? I can do it!" - which makes it very suitable both for young children learning to speak and older children figuring out how to read.

The only part I don't like is at the end, when the little boy says to his parrot (in a neat turnaround) "I am I, and I can wiggle my toe". It doesn't sound very idiomatic to me - I would say, in normal speech "I am me", or perhaps (in the form followed in the rest of the book) "I am a child" or "I am a person" or "I am a human".

This book is also, obviously good to encourage kids to move during a rainy-day storytime, or to let them move if they always are fidgeting during storytime.

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