I Play

by David McPhail

Overview

Run, sing, dance, and hop—follow Bear on his energetic romp! From David McPhail comes a board book of early concept words. In I Play, a charming bear demonstrates children's favorite action verbs, allowing children to replicate Bear's movements and learn the words for the things they do every day. These new board books are not only handy, fun guides for early learning concepts, but also the youngest readers' introduction to the whimsical world of David McPhail.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781626725133
Publisher:	Roaring Brook Press
Publication date:	07/28/2015
Sold by:	Macmillan
Format:	eBook
Pages:	12
File size:	14 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	1 - 3 Years

About the Author

David McPhail published his first children's book, The Bear's Toothache, in 1972. Since then, he has written and/or illustrated more than fifty books, including No! and The Abandoned Lighthouse. His nursery rhyme collection, My Mother Goose, came out in 2013. He lives in New Hampshire.

Editorial Reviews

Cuddly but never cloying and with a vintage flavor that readers will love, these characters are all real winners.” —School Library Journal

From the Publisher

2015-06-29
Find a baby and play together with this board book geared to the attention spans of very young children. Simple uncluttered layouts provide focus. Both this title and the co-published I Get Dressed use animal characters and vocabulary introduced in McPhail's My Mother Goose (2013), making them rare successful board-book adaptations of previously published picture books. As the title suggests, I Get Dressed names items of clothing while this offering reinforces action verbs. McPhail's bear walks with purpose, jumps for joy, and finally is quietly engrossed in reading. With just one word per page, even the youngest children will soon follow suit. Although the animals in I Get Dressed are just as whimsical, it is somewhat less satisfying, perhaps because different animals are used on each page, and the vocabulary concepts are more difficult. Even the animals look bemused to find themselves wearing clothes. The praying mantis wearing gloves is a delightful surprise, however. No one would trust the sly snake wearing that salesman's tie or, for that matter, a fox wearing a dress. McPhail knows and respects children. He manages to draw anthropomorphic animals without making them nauseatingly cute. Despite the brevity of the text, the humor embedded in the illustrations will engage even adults, who will doubtless be asked to "read it again." (Board book. 1-3)

Kirkus Reviews