All God's Critters Got a Place in the Choir - Softcover

Staines, Bill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140548386 ISBN 13: 9780140548389

Publisher: Puffin, 1993

Synopsis

Celebrates how all the animals in the world make their own music in their own way, some singing low, some singing higher

About this title

About the Author:

Kadir Nelson is the widely acclaimed illustrator of many books for children, including Thunder Rose, written by Jerdine Nolen, which received a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Award; Ellington Was Not a Street, written by Ntozake Shange, which received a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award; and Hewitt Anderson's Great Big Life, written by Jerdine Nolen, which won the 2005 Society of Illustrators Gold Medal. He is also the illustrator of Deloris Jordan and Roslyn M. Jordan's Salt in His Shoes and Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee's Please, Baby, Please and Please, Puppy, Please. Mr. Nelson lives with his family in San Diego, California.

From Booklist:

A song by children’s folk-singer Staines is brought to rollicking life by Nelson’s artwork in this howl-along picture book. The refrain begins All God’s critters got a place in the choir, / some sing low, some sing higher, / some sing out loud on the telephone wire. The tune then moves into solo and ensemble performances by dogs and cats and cows and hippos and possums and porcupines and on and on, adding their own voices and personalities to the hubbub. In each delightful spread, full-to-bursting with said critters’ energy, Nelson proves himself to be as adept painting jubilant scenes of barnyard animals raising a ruckus as he is creating the more gravitas-laden artwork for which he is justly celebrated. The oversize type of the lyrics nearly shouts off the page, making this a great choice for groups of excitable singers; but it works just as well on an individual level, allowing children to point out the various animals while mimicking their joyful noise. Be sure to keep this book far, far away at bedtime, though. Preschool-Grade 1. --Ian Chipman

About this edition

• Publisher: Puffin
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0140548386
• ISBN 13: 9780140548389
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Zemach Margot