![]() ![]() Fresh and buoyant, these books are good, clean fun.” Ages 1-4. Twirl with the pig if you know how.’ The rowdy crew in Monsters bursts in upon a mild-mannered hippo and makes ‘the mess that monsters make,’ but returns to make amends. In Barnyard, farm animals dance a boisterous, breathless, knee-slapping reel called, with great panache, by a fiddle-playing cow: ‘Bow to the horse. ![]() A zany sensibility gives an extra bounce to the otherwise conventional counting book One, Two, Three! A similar silliness suffuses Dinosaurs, which explores opposites. Each volume features a die-cut front cover framing a picture of its ebullient cartoon stars. In this story of animals gathering for a cow-directed barnyard dance, each action is illustrated with rotating animations, bouncing critters, skittering rodents and other delights. ![]() ![]() “The popular illustrator and greeting-card artist brings oddball humor and plenty of sassy energy to Boynton on Board, a quartet of concept board books. Packed with silly, playful animation and perfectly fitting music and narration, this adaptation of Boyntons board book gets the tone and whimsy just right. Her Barnyard Dance! Is a true romp of a board book, with cartoon farm animals that are wacky enough to make you laugh out loud, and rhymes clever enough to sustain those nearly infinite re-readings: ‘Stand with the donkey / Slide with the sheep / Scramble with the little chicks - cheep cheep cheep!’ Now, here's a woman who really knows how to use an active verb.” - Parents “Sandra Boynton has a knack for creating baby books with bounce. ![]()
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