Giggle!

by Caroline Jayne Church, Caroline Jayne Church (Illustrator)

Overview

Cherish the laughter-filled moments of childhood with your little one in GIGGLE, a novelty sound book by Caroline Jayne Church!

With a press of a button an infectious giggle lovingly echoes through this ticklish board book, proving that laughter is, indeed, the best sound in the world. Accompanied by Caroline Jayne Church's bestselling toddlers, GIGGLE is a book that will have children and parents laughing and loving out loud. There's no greater thing to doThan laugh and giggle here with you!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780545350822
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	08/27/2013
Series:	Caroline Jayne Church
Pages:	10
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 6.40(h) x 0.50(d)
Lexile:	AD400L (what's this?)
Age Range:	3 Months to 3 Years

About the Author

Caroline Jayne Church was a bestselling author and illustrator. Some of her bestselling titles include I Love You Through and Through by Bernadette Rossetti-Shustak, How Do I Love You? (Je t'aime comme...) by Marion Dane Bauer, You Are My Sunshine by Jimmie Davis, and Good Night, I Love You (Bonne nuit, je t'aime!).

Editorial Reviews

Parents and children are equally likely to enjoy Caroline Jayne Church's adorable pictures of chubby-faced toddlers smiling, laughing and playing together…the text, only nine sentences long, is nicely written…

The New York Times - Sarah Harrison Smith

Praise for POTTY TIME!"The cheerful images and fun sound effect provide gentle encouragement for the potty training camp." —PUBLISHERS WEEKLYPraise for GOOD NIGHT, I LOVE YOU"A quiet depiction of self-reliant slumber." —KIRKUS

From the Publisher

2013-10-09
Complete with laugh track, a bevy of toddlers enjoys playing together. Readers can press a button, accessible on every page through a die-cut hole in the book, to hear a baby's giggle that comes from a sound recording embedded in the book. In pastel colors, each single- or double-page spread shows cherubs hugging, smiling and moving in sketched cartoons against gently mottled backgrounds. While the kids appear to be of a variety of ethnicities, their skin tones are remarkably similar. Each scene is met with one or two lines of verse that start off playfully ("Laugh out loud or just giggle! / Feel a tickle in your middle!"), but the second-person point of view grows confusing; are adult readers speaking to their little ones via the text, or are the toddler characters speaking to one another? Since the battery pack for the sound mechanism takes up half of the available pages of the book, there are only really six scenes in the entire package. Little ones will enjoy pressing the button, driving adults in earshot crazy in the process, but after the battery wears out, this title will likely be a shelf-sitter. (Board book. 1-3)

Kirkus Reviews