Let's Go Visiting Board Book

by Sue Williams, Julie Vivas (Illustrator)

Overview

A colorful farmyard visit brightened by lively baby animals and lots of counting fun.

Let's go visiting and see who's ready to play—one foal, two calves, three kittens, four piglets, five ducklings, and six puppies! And once we've stomped in the mud with the piglets and swum in the lake with the ducklings, let's curl up with this adorable menagerie and take an afternoon nap.

This adventure-filled cumulative counting book will help youngsters practice their counting skills while they learn to identify their favorite animal babies—a visit every child will remember.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780152046385
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	06/01/2003
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 5.00(h) x 0.73(d)
Age Range:	3 Months to 3 Years

About the Author

SUE MACHIN (formally Williams) is the author of the acclaimed picture books I Went Walking and Let’s Go Visiting, as well as Dinnertime! She lives in Australia.

JULIE VIVAS is illustrator of I Went Walking,Let's Go Visiting, the Mem Fox classics Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge and Possum Magic, and several other picture book titles. Her distinctive watercolor style has delighted many children for many years. She lives in Australia.

Editorial Reviews

"The simple text with its repeated refrain will have audiences chanting along in no time."—School Library Journal

"The bold illustrations, simple yet full of motion, combine with a lively text to make this perfect for toddler story hours."—Booklist
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From the Publisher

Fans of I Went Walking will welcome the offspring of that cast in this playful companion. Here Williams and Vivas present a cumulative counting tale bursting with frisky baby animals. A wild-haired child (could be a boy or girl) issues an invitation to a friendly golden retriever: "Let's go visiting. What do you say?/ One brown foal is ready to play." All three then start a small parade as they move on to visit two red calves, three black kittens and so on, until they find "six yellow puppies... ready to play." Eventually, the weary menagerie curls up in the hay for a communal nap. Toddlers will chime in with Williams's simple, repetitive narrative, and Vivas's unadorned, large-scale watercolor art offers a bright visual subtext: after a quartet of playful pink piglets coats themselves and the youngster with mud, a visit to the habitat of five green ducklings (one of whom perches atop a pig's head) gives the grimy group a chance to wash off. And kids will be delighted to note that the irresistible pups who complete this counting tale belong to the child's canine companion. A charming antidote to quell preschoolers' restlessness before naptime. Ages 1-3. (Oct.)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

A pair of oversize board books introduce classics to youngest booklovers: Let's Go Visiting by Sue Williams, illus. by Julie Vivas ("A cumulative counting tale bursting with frisky baby animals," said PW); and Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh (a PW Best Book of the Year). In the first, the child narrator introduces colors, numbers and animals, while the trio of mice in the second title use red, blue and yellow to demonstrate primary, complimentary and contrasting colors. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Publishers Weekly