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32 pp.
| Simon/Wiseman
| May, 2009
|
TradeISBN 978-1-4169-4052-4$14.99
(4)
K-3
Illustrated by
Beppe Giacobbe.
"Alarm clock ringing, / Eardrums stinging..." From morning to night, Burleigh's simple pleasing rhymes and dynamic city scenes take readers through a boy's day. The retro-style, digitally generated illustrations incorporate lots of hand-lettered sound words: e.g., "snore, roar, rumble, rattle," which effectively convey the cacophony but tend to drown out the quieter text.
40 pp.
| Hyperion
| February, 2005
|
TradeISBN 0-7868-1824-7$15.99
(4)
K-3
Illustrated by
Beppe Giacobbe.
Short, playful verses describe the many characteristics of dogs: "Nobody's naggier than a dog-- / a slurp-your-face dog, / a let's-play-chase dog," etc. The text has a cumulatively tedious quality, but the flat, bold illustrations are seductive and feature a running gag about a dachshund chasing a cat and then trying to elude a dogcatcher.
40 pp.
| Hyperion
| September, 2003
|
TradeISBN 0-7868-1614-7$$15.99
(3)
K-3
Illustrated by
Beppe Giacobbe.
A catchy, rhythmic text describes a cat's most superlative qualities: e.g., "Nobody's prowlier / than a cat-- / a sneak-a-peek cat, / a hide-'n'-seek cat." Giacobbe's digitally rendered art, mainly in dark and secondary colors, ably demonstrates these qualities while adding an enjoyable narrative element: the cat-and-mouse chase depicted on the book's cover is continued in the background of each illustration.
44 pp.
| Candlewick
| March, 2000
|
TradeISBN 0-7636-0636-7$$14.99
(2)
4-6
Illustrated by
Beppe Giacobbe.
For this trio of choral poems, each voice is assigned its own color, on which the poems are printed in type large and bold enough to read over the shoulders of other participants, and it's clear when voices speak alone or join together. Each poem is more demanding, and more rewarding, than the last. Giacobbe highlights the humor in strips of vignettes that run along the bottom of the page. This is "toe-tapping, tongue-flapping fun."