Move!

by Lolly Hopwood, YoYo Kusters, Luke Flowers (Illustrator)

Overview

***A 2016 National Parenting Product Awards (NAPPA) winner

Don’t read this book—play it!

Introducing an ingenious way to help kids get the 60 minutes of active play they need each day. Move! is a book that combines imaginative play with movement. Hold it up to your face like a big pair of jaws and ROAR and STOMP like a dinosaur. Hold it by the die-cut handles to swing in a hip-to-hip motion while ROWING like a canoe. Or hold on tight and SPIN like a flying saucer.

This inventive format will excite the imaginations of kids and parents alike. Lively rhyming text and colorful, spirited illustrations prompt young readers to perform physical activities utilizing the book’s die-cut holes and handles. Move! is a book that will foster a love for reading and a love for physical activity—a book designed to keep kids healthy, happy, and having fun.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761187332
Publisher:	Workman Publishing Company
Publication date:	05/03/2016
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	662,620
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 7.10(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range:	3 - 6 Years

About the Author

The Philadelphia-based duo LOLLY AND YOYO are YVONNE KUSTERS, founder and owner of Let’s Play Today®, an organization whose mission is to inspire children, fitness professionals, and teachers to make fitness fun and playful, and LOLLY HOPWOOD, a musician who has been performing for both children and grownups on well-respected stages for more than 16 years. Together, they perform interactive live music and fitness shows to inspire kids toward healthy living.

LUKE FLOWERS is an award-winning illustrator and the founder of Luke Flowers Creative, an illustration and animation studio in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Editorial Reviews

05/16/2016
Not many children’s books encourage kids to stand on them, but this one does. Children’s entertainers Hopwood and Kusters’s first book features a central die-cut circle, as well as slim die-cuts toward the outside edges that create handles for kids to grip. As readers flip the pages, Flowers’s high-energy artwork transforms the spreads into everything from a creek that needs crossing (“Place this book down./ Leap over the creek./ But watch where you’re jumping./ There might be snakes, eek!”) to a surfboard (“Now lie down on top/ and paddle the floor./ Jump on board/ and you’re surfing to shore!”), all designed to gets kids moving. Rowdy cardio for kiddos. Ages 3–6. (May)

Publishers Weekly

Rowdy cardio for kiddos.” – Publishers Weekly
 

From the Publisher

2016-05-14
An interactive board book promises a variety of experiences. A book that gets kids up and moving sounds like a great idea. The half-circle cutout of the spine and large handle formed by another die cut on the right side are intriguing. Unfortunately, the rhyming instructions for using the book as an exercise prop are confusing. Even adults will find themselves puzzled when told to "paddle the floor," or to "hang on the handles. Step over the book. / You're a turtle in its shell! Go peek out and look." The busy pictures shift perspective according to each scenario presented but give few visual clues. For example, the only hint of a dinosaur on the page where readers are told to "put this book to your mouth and let out a roar" like a dinosaur are the teeth that line the edges of what is meant to be a gaping maw. It's not always obvious whether the book is meant to be facing readers or turned away from them, adding another layer of confusion. Furthermore, many of the instructions run counter to how young children are typically taught to treat books, as when they are told to step on it and then waddle or to lift it with their feet. The relatively thin board pages and weak handles will soon be torn by normal handling; following the directions in the text will only hasten the destruction. Leave this on the shelf and take the kids outside to really move. (Board book. 3-5)

Kirkus Reviews