Help the silly animals turn pages! Rookie Toddler books offer fun ways to engage with little ones during story time and play time. Each book includes story-related tips that help extend the reading experience and emphasize key learnings. Engaging photographs and illustrations will delight your toddler while encouraging a love of reading.
Turning the pages of a board book is an early reading milestone. In this playful book, children get hands-on as they help the silly animals turn pages.
Lots of hungry animals ask you to turn the page so they can get food - a very small child will be happy that s/he is 'feeding' animal friends - fun and unique concept with cute art.
Can You Turn the Page? by JaniceBehrens. BOARD BOOK. Scholastic: Rookie Toddler Series, 2018. $7. 9780531228913
BUYING ADVISORY: Pre-K - ESSENTIAL
AUDIENCE APPEAL: HIGH
Turning the page of a book is an exciting aspect of learning to read. Can You Turn the Page? is the perfect beginner book to get little fingers excited about reading. The animals on each page ask the reader to help find their favorite food waiting on the next page. Once the page is turned the animals are seen devouring their favorite foods. The book is cut out with large tabs to help with easier grasping.
We loved this board book. Toddlers get hands-on experience as they interact with the animals. Not only is a new animal introduced on each page but the past animals remain and the final page shows all animals “stuffed” with their favorite foods and napping. Parents and children alike will love this wonderfully illustrated and fun book.
A series of animals predict there will be cheese, muffins, ice pops, etc on the next page and ask the reader to turn the page so that they can get the food. The characters are drawn in a cartoon style while the food looks realistic. There isn't much of a story line or reason to turn the page other than the food gimmick, which gets old fast. This was a disappointment.
Jack borrowed this book from the Ashland Public Library.
I thought he would be more interested in the animals and the interactive element (they ask the reader to turn the page), but he wasn’t. He did smile and point at the mouse with his cheese. The other animals all ate foods they wouldn’t actually eat, which I thought was a missed learning opportunity.