Thump, Thump, Rat-A-Tat-Tat - Hardcover

Baer, Gene

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0694008133 ISBN 13: 9780694008131

Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens Books, 1996

Synopsis

A distant marching band grows larger and louder as it nears, and then softer and smaller as it goes away again

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 Childrens Books
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0694008133
• ISBN 13: 9780694008131
• Binding: Board book
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Ehlert Lois