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Webb, Steve

Tanka Tanka Skunk!: Rhythm and Rhyme

(3) PS After being introduced to drum-beating elephant Tanka and skunk Skunk, the reader is invited to "say their names together, and / hear / the / beat." As this ingeniously simple book proceeds, Webb finds music in the mere repetition of animal names ("lemur / llama / llama / lemur / zebra / badger / BAT"), and the candy-colored, cartoony images of the animals help readers keep the beat.

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