Wake-ity Wake!

Price: (as of 2013-10-28 - Details)

Reviewed with Karen Baicker's Snuggle Me Snuggly! and Yum Tummy Tickly!

PreS. Based on the three original rhymes from the picture book Tumble Me Tumbily (2002), this merry trio of board books will charm both toddlers and their parents. Wake-ity shows a child waking up and bouncing down the stairs to begin a playful day. Its bounce-and-tickle rhymes invite its audience to join in the fun: "Tickle me / tackle me / sack-a-potato me / tug-a-bug / jumble-bee / tumble me tumbily!" Written with a more easygoing rhythm, yum uses its rhyming verses to make a diverting sort of game of eating. Snuggle celebrates the closeness of mother and child as they cuddle up at bedtime. A multicultural cast of babies and toddlers as well as friendly animals cavort through the deftly drawn and painted illustrations, whose warm, jovial tone reflects that of the verse. Each book concludes with the same picture of a baby and a bear taking a curtain call before a shadowy audience. By the end of the third book, even the youngest verbal child will be chiming in on the final lines: "Good-bye, Baby! Good-bye, Bear! The end." Carolyn PhelanCopyright © American Library Association.

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