Amazing Animal Hide and Seek - Hardcover

Rowe, John A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0764156675 ISBN 13: 9780764156670

Publisher: B E S Pub Co, 2003

Synopsis

"There's an animal hiding in every spread of this ingenious picture book. But you must find each one before you can move on to the next."

About this title

From the Back Cover

[back cover]
We are Cat and Bat, Hare and Bear, Frog and Hog, Duck and Goose and Mouse and Moose.
Would you like to play a game of hide and seek?
Yes? Well, close your eyes, count to ten, and make sure you don?t peek!
There's an animal hiding in every spread of this ingenious picture book. But you must find each one before you can move on to the next. Can you reach the end and discover the crafty winner?

Here?s a playful picture book with vibrant illustrations and a delightful surprise ending.

[jacket front flap]
Cat and Bat, Hare and Bear, Frog and Hog, Duck and Goose, and Mouse and Moose are having fun playing hide and seek! Kids can play along with them by closing their eyes, counting to ten, and turning each page to a new and funny illustration. First, kids must find the Cat who is hiding in a field. His colors blend in with the many other details in this vividly colored illustration, so toddlers will have to look very carefully. Once they?ve found Cat, they can turn to the next page and seek out another animal friend in hiding. Finally, at the story?s end, all the animals have been found and have returned home to rest. All except one?the little Mouse! Where has Mouse gone? Boys and girls will be delighted by the surprising answer to this question.

[jacket back flap]
John Rowe, was born in Surrey, England, and received his training at the Epsom School of Art and Design. He held a wide variety of jobs before first publishing his illustrations in 1990 in a children?s book based on one of Rudyard Kipling?s Just So Stories. Since then, he has written and illustrated several children?s books and has won numerous international awards for his work. Amazing Animal Hide and Seek is his first book for Barron?s.

Reviews

PreSchool-Grade 1-Ten animals of various shapes and sizes invite children to play hide-and-seek. Readers are told to shut their eyes and count to 10 while the creatures disperse. The animals get increasingly harder to find as the rhymes progress and in the end, only one is still at large. "Who is hiding in the house?/He squeaks and twitches,/and scurries and hurries./He's so tiny, will you ever find him?" A mouse is found inside the grandfather clock under the book's only flap. While the premise is charming, the execution is muddled. The cartoon illustrations attempt a wacky sensibility but come across as confusing instead. The large-nosed cat looks more like a dog and the bat's face is very similar to that of the mouse. These factors will frustrate young children who enjoy successfully guessing who's who. The text, which gives readers clues throughout, is written in inconsistent verse. For more satisfying hide-and-seek titles, stick with Jose Aruego's We Hide, You Seek (Greenwillow, 1979) or Jane Simmons's Daisy's Hide-and-Seek (Little, Brown, 2001).
Rachel G. Payne, New York Public Library
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Edition details

• Publisher: B E S Pub Co
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0764156675
• ISBN 13: 9780764156670
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32