Product Description

Here's to the birds and the bears and the bugs! Here's to the weird and the wacky, the cute and the creepy! From toothy fish to get-you-when-you're-sleeping cats to lick-lick-lick dogs, every creature is loveable...especially you!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1991629 in Books
• Published on: 2004-04-05
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 32 pages

Review
Elliott's cup runneth over with good cheer in this rhymed toast to people-and not just the two-legged variety, either: "Here's to the birds! / The Feather People! / Birds! / Here's to the who-o-o ones, / The cock-a-doodle-doo ones, / Their breasts as red as fire ones, / The sitting on a wire ones. / Oh, I love the birds!" Each verse follows the same pattern, as he goes on to salute fish ("The Bubble People"), bears ("The Hungry People"), bugs, cats, dogs, cows, and frogs in turn, coming around at last to "The People People," and closing with "The You Person! / You!" Cecil's full-bleed illustrations reflect all this unfettered exuberance, with bright cartoon scenes of grinning young folk surrounded by animals and placed in outdoorsy settings. Reminiscent of Flora McDonnell's I Love Animals (1994) for its intensity of feeling, but more articulate in its expression, this will have young readers and listeners calling for another round. (Picture book. 6-8) (Kirkus Reviews)

Customer Reviews

Fun and good for phonemic awareness
This is a lovely book with really bright, exciting illustrations. The text is a simple, rhyming celebration of just about everything. Rhyming books are very good for phonemic awareness for kids at this age, as phonemic awareness - the idea that all words can be broken down into constituant sounds - is vital for developing reading skills. The happy, jolly feeling from the text is infectious and kids I have read it to request it again and again.