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There are galahs, turtles, goannas, rosellas, wombats and others to discover.
But who can it be in the gum tree?
Children will have fun searching for and identifying the list of animals for the day they get up to.
Working through the twelve days of Brentos’ Christmas, the amount of Australian native animals on the page, increases.
Reading it
reminds me of the excitement and movement of picture books from my childhood
(back in the stone ages).
Digger digs down. Digger digs deep, deep into the
ground.
It is a story about ‘being prepared for the worst and hoping for the best.’
It’s always a joy to be surprised – astounded, even - by creative offerings that speak directly to both the head and the heart.
This book from Dirt Lane Press is one
such offering. From the first lines of Paper Flower Girl, there’s a
strong, true voice that rings out and compels us to strap in for the ride.
On the fourth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, four calling birds…and Hooray for Birds, written and illustrated by Lucy Cousins.
Peck, hop, flap and make some noise in this story full of colour, rhyme and feathered friends!
Flap your wings, fly up high, open your beak and sing in this fun action
rhyme story about fantastical birds by multi-award-winning author Lucy
Cousins.
"Can you imagine ... just for one day ... you're a busy bird? Yes, a bird! Hooray!" Can you stand on one leg like a flamingo or waddle like a penguin? How about say "cock-a-doodle-doo!", "tuwit-tuwoo" and even "tra-la-la"? What a busy day you will have!
A bouncy read-aloud
book to be enjoyed; beautifully illustrated with bold, bright colours
and packed with all sorts of wild and wonderful birds!
Title: Hooray for Birds!
Author/Illustrator: Lucy Cousins
Publisher: Candlewick Press, $24.99
Publication Date: 1 February 2017
Format: Hard Cover
ISBN: 9780763692650
For ages: 2 – 7
Type: Picture Book
Colour makes us special.
Colour makes the world go round.
What would we do if rainbows
didn’t contain colour, or if flamingos were black and white instead of their
rich pink and crimson? What would the sunshine be if it wasn’t golden?
This book asks questions and
explores the answers in a curious and funny rumination on diversity, colour,
difference and friendship. A seemingly simple narrative is actually anything
but – even though it is perfect for young children with readily accessible
ideas and images for exploring our wonderful world.
This is the perfect book for any rainy days. A colouring book with science drawings, Science in Colours is part of a series of many others including The Sound of Colour, with drawings about music. If you have other interests the series has it all covered, you will find illustrations of animals, plants , landscapes, and fictional characters in these other colouring books. I personally got Science in Colour and The Sound of Colour.
Colouring is known to help with
anxiety, stress and even depression and that’s actually the purpose of these
books. It’s also a good way to increase someone’s
interest in painting. So this book would potentially boost someone’s drawing,
painting, sketching skills. Additionally, it’s a great way to developed further
someone’s fine motoring skills and concentration skills.
The book has a mixture of easy and more
complicated drawings to colour, that makes it ideal for something quick to
colour or something more complicated and longer to do.
What makes this book and the
others in the series very special is that purchasing them will help low-income
children in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Koley is a non-profit foundation with a
social aim so that makes these books even more interesting. I really love this
story behind the books and when I use them that make me feel even better than
some other children can also benefit from it.
So far I have tried a couple of
easy colouring pages in Science in Colours and can see how children can do some
of the pages. However other pages have more detailed drawings and would require
longer time to complete. I really love the combination of colouring and music
in The Sound of Colour, combining two art forms, however most pages have
instruments and people that are detailed and requires lot of colouring time. I
have recently learnt a bit more about warm and cold colours at an Art Club and shall
definitely have more practice using these books.
As the song goes,
‘Everybody loves a rainbow’. Well
this body does and Penny Harrison’s colour-filled picture book, Rainbow Is My Favourite Colour conveys
this impression beautifully from cover to cover.
If there is one go-to question that is easiest to ask when getting to know something about someone it’s, ‘What’s your favourite colour?’ You either have one or you, like me, love a rainbow of them.
The
little girl in this story (Bronte) definitely thinks ballerina-twirling-pinks
are pretty special. Jelly greens and party swirling purples are pretty cool
too. She loves a splat of black as
well especially for its ability to hide a Boo!
and scare you.
Can anyone chase a rainbow? If so, how is it done?
Siblings Sam and Ruby love rainbows.
Their dad tells them stories about the rainbow magic he sees from his helicopter.
Their minds draw pictures of what they could see and feel and do with a rainbow if they could also see the rainbow magic. They long for a rainbow to appear to them in puddles.
Name: Eva-Maria Schull
