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Trade Review"Youngsters will delight in spotting right ("I like to eat apples") from wrong ("I like to eat books") in each situation, the turn of the page always giving them ample time to point out a correction. Krug's oil-paint illustrations are cheery and bright, which add to the whimsy, and interchanging framed pages with double-page spreads gives extra visual cues to help readers spot the silly parts...the sleepy, nighttime conclusion both brings the slight narrative full circle and makes this a surprising bedtime possibility. A well-paced romp with nifty response opportunities for little ones." -- Kirkus * December 4, 2014 *
In this charming book, preschoolers share the things they like to do....The story’s circular structure and repeated refrain will appeal to young children, as will Krug’s soft, colorful oil paintings. The illustrations are a perfect complement to the text, offering visual cues to explain each character’s silly suggestion. For example, after Bear claims to sleep on cookies, youngsters see him enjoying a plate of cookies with Pig. Thick white borders with soft edges frame the pages as the animals share their list of likes, while full spreads in real-time settings fill the entire page as each one cries, “‘No, silly!’” A winning book for preschoolers and their families. -- School Library Journal
Each section of this concept picture book offers three plausible behaviors (“I like to sleep in my bed. I like to sleep in my dad’s big chair. I like to sleep in my mama’s lap”) and one absurd conclusion (“And I like to sleep on cookies”), allowing for a happy correction (“No, silly! You
eat cookies”). The book moves through eating, reading, and riding, and it finally heads off to bedtime—with one last misstep: “And then I like to put Mama and Dad to bed. No, silly . . . Mama and Dad put
you to bed.” This draws on the classic little-kid-friendly joke of subverting the known with an obvious mistake...the audience will be happy to chime in on the “No, silly!” refrain. The oil-painted illustrations make a new animal the subject of each sequence with the soft, toylike bear sharing his cookies with a cheerful piglet, who becomes the hero of the eating sequence and passes the baton to a mouse, who moves on to a bunny; the bedtime sequence then cycles through all four animals... -- Bulletin * April 2015 *
