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Over in the meadow

by Cabrera, Jane,

Format: Print Book 2020
Availability: Available at 1 Library 1 of 1 copy

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Cooper-Siegel Community Library Board Books BOARD E CAB
Location  Cooper-Siegel Community Library
 
Collection  Board Books
 
Call Number  BOARD E CAB
 
 

Summary
From the read-along master comes a bold and bright rendition of a classic counting song in a sturdy board book.
Animal moms and their babies learn and play together on a beautiful day over in the meadow. But each family is a different size. Can you number them all?

Jane Cabrera's uniquely textured art and whimsical lyrics will have young readers singing and counting along in both story hours and parent-child settings. This colorful reinvention also includes several spreads at the end that sum up all of the count-able animals in easy-to-read groupings.

Jane Cabrera's Story Time gives favorite nursery rhymes and songs a new toddler-friendly twist. These interactive favorites feature bold, bright, illustrations and catchy refrains. Don't miss other fun titles including Row, Row, Row Your Boat, Old Macdonald Had a Farm, and Mommy Carry Me Please.
Published Reviews
Booklist Review: "Ages 1^-4. One of the great traditional counting songs gets a fresh, colorful treatment that will have toddlers chanting and pointing as they name the animals, copy the actions, and learn their numbers. Cabrera's Cat's Colors (1997) was focused on the cozy indoors, but here the big, clear double-page pictures show an open green meadow in yellow sunlight, where frogs jump, bees buzz, worms wiggle, ducks quack, and other animals each do their thing all day long. As in Cat's Colors, the thick brush strokes focus attention on the bond between mother and babies, often eye to eye, while the young ones learn what to do. In a final spreading scene, "while the mothers are away," all the groups of baby animals come out to play in the open meadow; and then, right at the end, Cabrera lines them up, from 1 turtle to 10 perky rabbits, for more counting fun. --Hazel Rochman"
From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.
Publisher's Weekly Review: "In a lively variation on the familiar nursery rhyme, Cabrera (Eggday) offers an appealing and energetic landscape of boldly applied colors. Smudges reminiscent of finger painting dot the meadow, and each animal, outlined in thick black, stands out against its habitat. A pair of little goldfish with propeller fins swims in a blue-green sea, and seven froggies jump with Old Mother Frog in a "green grass heaven." The "little ratties four" gnaw all day by the old barn door, and 10 gray rabbits twitch in "a cozy wee den." To reinforce the counting lessons, Cabrera shows the entire barnyard scene and invites readers to find the animals once more ("Over in the meadow/ while the mothers are away,/ can you count the babies?/ They've all come out to play!"). A final page offers yet another refresher, as the animals cavort around their corresponding numeral. Learning to count--and even a bit about nature--is as easy as one, two, three in this merry meadow. Ages 4-8. (Mar.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved"
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Additional Information
Series Cabrera, Jane. Jane Cabrera's story time.
Subjects Board books.
Counting.
Animals -- Fiction.
Stories in rhyme.
Picture books for children.
Histoires rimeĢes.
Publisher [New York, New York] :Holiday House,2020
Edition Jane Cabrera's story time board book edition.
Language English
Notes On board pages.
Title from cover.
Description 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 17 cm
ISBN 9780823444755
0823444759
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