The Backwards Birthday Party
With Audio Recording
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- £8.49
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- £8.49
Publisher Description
Have a happy birthday—the backwards way! Full of fun and based on the hit song from Tom Chapin and John Forster, this is a celebratory birthday bash like no other.
Put your clothes on inside out, heat up the ice cream, and hang on to your party hats—because everything’s out of whack at the backwards birthday party!
From beloved, three-time Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Tom Chapin, four-time Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter John Forster, and with stunning illustrations from Chuck Groenink comes the zaniest birthday party you’ll ever attend.
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A topsy-turvy song from Chapin's 1994 children's recording, Zag Zig, becomes an equally zippy picture book. The celebration at hand is a boy's birthday party that begins one morning when "the sun was sinking low" and wraps up in the glare of day, when the boy notes, "And I was one year younger than I'd been the day before." In the intervening hours, party guests eat birthday cake first ("The ice cream was hot./ The candles were not") and allow a blindfolded donkey to pin a tail on them (even the typography gets in on the fun, reading from bottom to top in an early scene). Madcap silliness reigns "at the backwards birthday party!/ the partyday birthwards back," and Groenink (Santa Clauses) keeps pace, creating a rowdy menagerie of animal partygoers (an ape puffs into the wrong end of a clarinet, a cat and goose share a pair of pants) who sing and dance the night away or is it morning? The mixed-media illustrations hum with energy, movement, and color, capturing the spirit of this anything-goes celebration. Ages 4 8.
