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18th out of 121 books
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20 voters
Tap Tap Bang Bang
by
Emma Garcia
Cree craw with the saw, bang bang with the hammer, and twizzle, twist, twirl, and spin with the screwdriver, bolts, and nuts. What fun!
It’s tool time for children as they delight in bright and colorful chisels, clamps, drills, pliers, and mallets at work. What could they be making? Kids will love finding out—and joining in with the sound effects in this action-packed book....more
It’s tool time for children as they delight in bright and colorful chisels, clamps, drills, pliers, and mallets at work. What could they be making? Kids will love finding out—and joining in with the sound effects in this action-packed book....more
Hardcover, 32 pages
Published
May 4th 2010
by Boxer Books
(first published January 1st 2010)
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This brightly illustrated option is going to attract a lot of children with a love for how things work. Many of these children will be boys, you'll find. The story itself isn't especially thrilling to me, and it doesn't make me happy to read during a storytime session. But you watch as distracted boys immediately snap to attention and want to see the adventures of these adorably illustrated tools and what they make. It's good to have in your arsenal, and can function well on units focusing on no...more
I think I would have liked this one even more if it had been more obvious that they were constructing one specific thing, with better illustrative hints at what that thing might be for children to be able to use deductive reasoning and guess. Until the final reveal, it reads a bit randomly and I never would have guessed what they were building (so how could a child?). Fun use of sounds though and big, bold illustrations make it a great choice for storytime.
My tool loving little boy really fell in love with this book. A lively introduction to tools and the sounds that they make. Each one, such as a saw, chisel, and drill, has its own distinctive sound ("cree craw," "chippety chip," "zzz") that children will enjoy repeating.
The sounds that some of the tools make seem a bit odd and arbitrary, but all the little tools with their eyeballs are so fun that it makes up for the text. Bold illustrations, large text. Good for phonological awareness. Storytime fun.
Description: This book provides great vocabulary for different tools and the sounds them make.
Illustrations: I love them. The bright colors and beautiful details are very engaging.
Themes/keywords: tools, vocabulary building, sounds
Literacy skills:
Phonological sensitivity- all the sounds that are made by the tools help to develop this skill
Vocabulary-provides kids with a variety of tool names
Illustrations: I love them. The bright colors and beautiful details are very engaging.
Themes/keywords: tools, vocabulary building, sounds
Literacy skills:
Phonological sensitivity- all the sounds that are made by the tools help to develop this skill
Vocabulary-provides kids with a variety of tool names
I'd give it a 3.5. My toddler is obsessed with tools and this book goes through each one, names it, and explains what it does (sort of). There's nothing special about it, but it's good for teaching the terminology.
I like that Garcia's books are very vibrant, full of new vocabulary words, and also rather simple. Simple enough for toddlers but not too simple for preschoolers. Especially preschoolers like mine who LOVE tools.
Colorful pictures of tools combined with sound words ("we can bang bang with the hammer") create a story of the tools working together to build something. Would be great for preschoolers.
Fun easy way to learn about simple tools and all that they do. It's also fun to act out the sounds of the tools. Collin LOVES this book.
The text sounds for the tools are a bit cutsey-wutsey, but kids will love the tools with eyes and kids love tools, period!
This is a book about tools and what you do with different ones. There are a lot of verbs and sound words in this short story.
I'm using this one for an under 2s storytime in tools. Parents can help their children to imitate the action of each tool.
Jun 19, 2010
Kate Hastings
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Toddlers, Pre-K; construction storytime
Shelves:
preschool
Use for a toddler/Pre-K storytime about building and construction. Good opportunity to have children participate with actions.
My husband was mystified as to why our non-English speaking kids thought a saw was called a cree-craw.
Nice book that shows different tools in a clear way. Good for a "construction" or "boy" storytime
Cute explanations for children of how tools work! Illustrations were fun and colorful.
My youngest son loves this one and it teaches rhythm and rhyme from an early age.
Could be a storytime success? Get kids to act out the tools, make noises
I should start an onomatopoeia shelf. That would be a fun storytime!
Aug 15, 2011
Nancy J.
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Tools with eyes making their noises as they work.
hand tools, construction vocabulary
Things I like: a list of tools that goes beyond hammer, nails, saw, etc. to include chisel, glue gun, sander, clamp. Garcia's bright cut-paper illustrations are always appealing, and how can you resist those cute little eyes on every tool? (I found the nails especially endearing.) On the nitpicky side, the words for each tool are a mix of noises (cree craw--awesome--for the saw, bang, whack) and actions (lift, twist, clamp, turn, rub), which felt a little inconsistent. But yay for a toddler-acce...more
The eyes on the tools are freaky.
That's what she said.
Construction Storytime!
AFG
tools
A great book for little boys (babies/toddlers). I'm looking forward to reading the other two in the series.
My three-year-old actually cried when we had to return this book to the library - guess I know one thing she's getting for her birthday this year. She's fascinated by tools and their uses, and the illustrations and action words in this book really piqued her interest.
26 months - O really enjoyed this one. This would be a good book to read and then show the real tools to your toddler. O knew a few of the tools and then I just attempted to explain what the others did using my hands, sounds and words. A fun book.
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