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Hutchins, Pat
10 Reviews
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Almost fifty years after Rosie's Walk, Rosie is a mama, but she's still unobservant--searching for her newly hatched chick wobbling behind her. Rosie revisits the places where the fox previously tried to catch her; slapstick humor shows her lucky chick escaping injury every time. The reds, yellows, bright greens, and oranges repeat from the previous book, and curved black lines show motion to comic effect.
Reviewer: Susan Dove Lempke
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
November, 2016
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One of the savvier of the ubiquitous board-book adaptations, this slapstick picture-puzzle is just right for toddlers, who will easily follow the oblivious hen's stroll through the farm while the hapless fox is foiled at each turn. It's all in the pictures.
Reviewer: Roger Sutton
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
August, 1968
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"Titch was little. / His sister Mary was a bit bigger. / And his brother Pete was a lot bigger." Hutchins's understated, childlike story about a family's littlest member is here presented in a small, vertically rectangular board book. The original's blend of spare text with bright, uncomplicated illustrations makes the classic picture book perfect material for the new format.
Reviewer: Katrina Hedeen
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
April, 1972
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Horse, Sheep, and Pig cavort in the barn while their supposedly sleeping youngsters watch, unnoticed. Accidents brought on by the unbridled fun subdue the mothers and, wearied by the excitement, all three retire--whereupon their progeny escape outdoors to dance by moonlight until dawn. Hutchins's illustrations are bold, crayon-bright, and story-hour appropriate. This pleasant romp is a natural for dramatic play.
Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long
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July, 2007
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After their mothers warn them, "don't get lost," four young farm animals go for a walk and notice tasty treats (apples, hay, and turnips) in each field. The patterned illustrations show a tractor harvesting the crops right after the animals leave. Without the food landmarks to guide them home, the animals worry they're lost, but in a satisfying ending to the simple story, they find the farmyard, and their mothers give them a freshly picked dinner.
Reviewer: Patricia Riley
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A little girl explains that she is something different to each member of her extended family (e.g., she is simultaneously her mother's daughter and her stepbrother's stepsister). Hutchins adds the newly mentioned family members to an increasingly crowded dining-room table where they celebrate the protagonist's birthday. The art, with its clean outlines, solid expanses of bright color, and shallow space, adds a celebratory feel to the otherwise bland text.
Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth
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In this sweet, simple tale, birdbrains Hen, Duck, and Goose intend to enjoy a picnic but are so busy searching for the perfect spot that they don't notice the hungry animals taking up residence in their fruit-filled picnic basket. Preschoolers will love staying one step ahead of the protagonists, and the garden-hued illustrations are a fitting counterpoint to the anarchic scenario.
Reviewer: Nell Beram
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"Ten red apples hanging on the tree. / Yippee, fiddle-dee-fee!" One by one, the apples are eaten by nine farm animals and the farmer, depicted in the gouache folk-art-like paintings as flat, jointed, wooden figures. When the farmer's wife arrives to pick apples for a pie, she finds none ("Fie, fie, fiddle-dee-fee!"). The rhyming verse is lively, and the endpapers reinforce the counting lesson.
Reviewer: Sara Pearce
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No matter what he gets for his birthday, monster Billy doesn't want to share, so the other little monsters play together, while Billy plays "all on his own." Lively illustrations show Billy looking more and more dubious as he watches the others having fun. When he receives a box of games that can't be played alone, Billy finally learns about sharing. This fifth book about the monster family will amuse fans.
Reviewer: Patricia Riley
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One of the savvier of the ubiquitous board book adaptations, this slapstick picture-puzzle is just right for toddlers, who will easily follow the oblivious hen's stroll through the farm while the hapless fox is foiled at each turn. It's all in the pictures.
Reviewer: Roger Sutton
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
August, 1968
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