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What's Looking at You, Kid?
Simple rhymes and illustrations are used to help explore and identify wildlife such as birds, insects, and sea creatures.
Hardcover, 32 pages
Published
March 1st 2012
by Sleeping Bear Press
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I usually share stand-alone poems on Poetry Friday, but this week, I'm featuring a rhyming picture book called What's Looking At You Kid?(Sleeping Bear Press, 2012). J. Patrick Lewis has a new take on riddles, one of his favorite forms, judging by Spot the Plot and Edgar Allan Poe's Pie. This delightful picture book features a quatrain (well, metrically a quatrain, though sometimes the design splits up the lines differently) on each spread that observes something in nature, followed by two lines...more
Relying on simple rhymes and riddles that often provide a unique perspective about their subject matter, the poet encourages readers to notice the natural world around them. Readers encounter a lightning bugs, a hummingbird, a beetle, and a robin, among others. Lewis provides the perfect description for a hummingbird in one of my favorite pages: "To sip a flower,/ then dive and dart,// Her wings/ beat like her/ little heart" (unpaged). I also loved how dragonflies were compared to "a pair of fai...more
I loved the large print and beautiful pictures. The rhymes were fun and the text invited you to guess what insect, bird, or animal the rhyme was about. This book really engaged my 9 mo old. She had fun counting the dots on the ladybug, and watched closely while I read the entire book. I can't say that is always the case. She's usually so active that it is hard to get her to focus on an entire book. But this book held her interest!
I like the illustrations. The rhymes for each creature were good. But it worked for me to think of each as a separate poem since (for me) it didn't flow as an entire book. This definitely had toddler potential. The whole book might be a bit much, but you could easily skip various pages/creatures and still use the end. It's a good way to introduce a few creatures that young kids might not be too familiar with, yet.
Sure to appeal to the very young, Renee Graef's illustrations are vivid and fun while incorporating scientifically accurate details. I would have enjoyed this much more if each "punch line" text and image pictured on the right spreads would have, instead, been revealed as page turns, allowing for reasoning, guessing, recalling nature observations, etc. then confirming as the page is turned.
Appeal Characteristics: Page by Page Mysteries, Bright Bold Colors, Vivacious Text
Kids will definitely get a kick out of this book rhyme about what's looking at them on each page. A cute fun filled adventure (dizzying to me at times from the large wording and crazy colors)but i'm sure kids will appreciate!
Kids will definitely get a kick out of this book rhyme about what's looking at them on each page. A cute fun filled adventure (dizzying to me at times from the large wording and crazy colors)but i'm sure kids will appreciate!
Rhyming, rhythmic text (in big bold type making it great for sharing with audiences) challenges readers to identify the creature described in text and in illustration. Pictures are colorful with soft details. Great read aloud and an excellent nature tie-in.
The text size is big enough.. good for readlouds. Meanwhile, I felt being shouted with the same reason. The book intend to be calming yet it may attract people with different reasons.
Children will enjoy the playful animals and interactive text. Will make a nice read aloud for the toddler set.
Cute book until the end and then it piddled and fizzled out. Left us with a very dissatisfied feeling.
Rhyming riddles good for toddlers and young children. Large print and vibrant illustrations.
This one will make a fun preschool read aloud.
Using a combination of rhymes and vivid illustrations, children are invited to solve riddles about the creatures inhabiting the world around them. Each riddle is easily solved by reading the clues and then looking at the picture of the animal or insect on the right hand side of the page.
Reviewed by Reviewer 19.
Reviewed by Reviewer 19.
cute!
An animal guessing game in a book!
What I thought: I love it! This will be a perfect book to use for my animal antics pajama party this fall. The text is simple and the illustrations are lovely. What's Looking at You, Kid? will pair well with Jack Prelutsky's If Not for the Cat.
Story Time Themes: Animals
What I thought: I love it! This will be a perfect book to use for my animal antics pajama party this fall. The text is simple and the illustrations are lovely. What's Looking at You, Kid? will pair well with Jack Prelutsky's If Not for the Cat.
Story Time Themes: Animals
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J. Patrick Lewis is the current Children's Poet Laureate. He has written more than seventy children's books, including Once Upon a Tomb: Gravely Humorous Verses. J. Patrick Lewis lives in Ohio.
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