Beastly Babies
with audio recording
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
From wriggling chicks to jumpy kangaroos, this hilarious rhyming picture book showcases different kinds of babies, all of which are perfectly, adorably beastly!
Making mischief, having fun
each is precious, every one.
In a knoll, a hole, or nest,
Mamas love their babies best.
In this delightful rhyming read-aloud, author Ellen Jackson and illustrator Brendan Wenzel introduce readers to all sorts of mischievous baby animals—and the grown-ups who love them no matter what. Featuring puppies that slobber, kittens who spill, and young gorillas who won't sit still, this book is sure to resonate with beastly babies of all ages—and their exasperated moms and dads, too!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this survey of animal offspring whose habitats range from the backyard to polar regions and the savannah, Wenzel (Some Bugs) wrangles species into wonderfully improbable compositions (a quail family dances in the spray from a baby's whale's spout, while a little dromedary mischievous spits on the whale's nose) and vivid single-animal vignettes (a baby tiger goes on a hunt with its mother, but can't even catch her tail let alone dinner). The visual magic of these pictures has two sources: the range of materials he employs and the animals' intense, wide-eyed gazes, which bring to mind Sumerian temple figures and give even the tiniest critter a powerful emotional presence. Hopscotching over the messes animal babies tend to make and the ways they misbehave, Jackson's (Tooling Around) brief rhymes can be innocuous ("Making mischief,/ having fun,/ each is precious,/ every one"), but they also have an infectious rhythm, and they get an additional goose of energy from the book's quirky typography. Ages 4 8.
