Thump, Thump, Rat-a-Tat-Tat - Softcover

Baer, Gene

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0064432653 ISBN 13: 9780064432658

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1991

Synopsis

The marching band is in the distance. Big as ants. Loud as crickets. Here it comes! Big as crickets. Loud as birds. Coming closer! Louder and louder, brighter and brighter. Hear the drums! Hear the horns! The band is here, marching by. Thump, Thump, Thump! Rat-a-tat-tat!

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

The "festive colors" and "flashing brass" of a marching band appear before the reader in this foot-stomping parade of color. "Big as ants" and "loud as crickets," the tiny marchers climb off a yellow bus. The reader hears the band's "distant drums/chirping horns/THUMP, THUMP/THUMP, THUMP."Colors and sounds grow larger and louder as the band grows closer ("big as birds/loud as lions/THUMP, THUMP/THUMP, THUMP"), then gradually fade away. Baer's crescendo and de-crescendo of words is amiably matched by the typesize and by Ehlert's stylized marchers. The design is crisp and inventive; abstract but definable bandmembers made of rectangles and circles in primary colors step smartly across vivid pages. Readers will want to cheer for this rat-a-tat-tat parade. Ages 2-6.
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Review:

"A visual and auditory delight. . . . an irresistible parade." -- -- The Boston Globe

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0064432653
• ISBN 13: 9780064432658
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Ehlert Lois