Who Has the Biggest Bottom

by Marijke ten Cate

Overview

From the author/illustrator of Where Is My Sock? comes this backyard cross between a circus and a county fair. Who has the most pointy nose? The longest ears? The dirtiest hands? The biggest bottom? The readers are the winners as each animal is recognized individually and then all together in one splendid celebratory spread.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781935954255
Publisher:	Lemniscaat USA
Publication date:	04/01/2013
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	11.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.30(d)
Age Range:	2 - 5 Years

About the Author

Marijke ten Cate (1974) graduated from the School of Arts in Kampen and works full-time as an illustrator of picture books. Her characters are charming, her style inviting. The colors in her illustrations are lively and bright, just like Marijke! With Lemniscaat USA she published Where Is My Sock?

Editorial Reviews

Praise for Where Is My Sock?
"Where are my striped underpants?...Where is my light blue shirt?" Readers can answer each of a boy's seven questions by poring over the book's double-page spreads featuring animals and children making merry with assorted garments. By this winsomely clever book's end, the once naked boy is fully clothed and marching the cast outdoors to play. (Copyright 2010 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)


Praise for Where is My Sock?
“It's an enjoyable discovery game for a child alone or a child -adult pair."
-Yellow Brick Road

From the Publisher

PreS-Gr 1—This unusual concept book depicts a group of friendly animals and children as they work together to build sets in order to put on a backyard circus. In each spread, readers are asked to search the playfully chaotic pictures to find certain body features, such as the widest mouth, the thinnest legs, the dirtiest hands, or the biggest bottom. The watercolor illustrations are packed with details, and children can have fun following the messy progression of the various characters as they prepare for the big show by bathing, putting on makeup, donning costumes, practicing their routines, and, in a couple of cases, using the potty. The final picture shows the children-along with their pig, sheep, alligator, monkey, rabbit, bear cub, flamingo, cat, dog, and mice cohorts-performing their stunts in and around the newly constructed circus tent with the answers to the previous questions clearly labeled. An entertaining additional purchase.—Martha Simpson, Stratford Library Association, CT

School Library Journal

In this jolly import, spotting the largest bottom, the barest belly, the widest mouth and like superlatives in a loose gathering of children, animals and animate toys preparing to put on a circus will draw young viewers into all sorts of visual funny business. It's a messy affair. On the first spread alone, one child hauls in miscellaneous lumber and tools, while another creates party hats and noses for himself and several toys. Still another gives a piglet a sudsy bath near a dog diving into a pot of what looks like tomato soup, and yet another samples an array of perfumes next to a toddler proffering a full, stinking potty to a grimacing monkey. The pairings change and the clutter increases in successive scenes, as the stage goes up, costumes go on, signs (and pigs) get painted, and at last, the solutions to the titular and related questions present themselves (though they were easy enough to identify earlier). Suspended in white space with only pale shadows for background, Cate's watercolor figures fill but don't crowd the pages, and they throw themselves into the preparations with infectious smiles and high spirits. A quick bit of fun for fans of Bob Staake's Look! A Book! (2011) and like seek-and-find scrambles. (Picture book. 3-6)

Kirkus Reviews