Bounce - Hardcover

Cronin, Doreen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 141691627X ISBN 13: 9781416916277

Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2007

Synopsis

Bounce a ball right off your hands. Bounce it off your toes. Try to bounce a beach ball on the tip of your nose! Doreen Cronin and Scott Menchin, who had toddlers all over America jiggling with Wiggle, invite them now to hop, leap, pounce, and bounce to their hearts' content (though not on couches!). Because, after all, it's better to have bounced and bumped than never to have bounced at all.

About this title

About the Author

Doreen Cronin is the author of many bestselling and New York Times bestselling picture books, including Click, Clack, Quack to School!; Click, Clack, Surprise!; Click, Clack, Ho, Ho, Ho; Click, Clack, Peep; Click, Clack, Boo!; Dooby Dooby Moo; Thump, Quack, Moo: A Whacky Adventure; Bounce; Wiggle; Duck for President; Giggle, Giggle, Quack; Bloom; and the Caldecott Honor Book Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type as well as The Chicken Squad series and Cyclone. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Visit her at DoreenCronin.com.

Scott Menchin received rave reviews for his boisterous illustrations in Wiggle by Doreen Cronin. His unique style has also bounced around with such high-profile publications as the New York Times and Time. He lives with his wife and daughter in New York and teaches at the Pratt Institute graduate school.

Reviews

PreS—The frenetic pooch featured in Wiggle (S & S, 2005) is back with a decided bounce in its step. Readers are invited to jump, hop, leap, and bounce balls off their noses and toes along with the playful pooch. Rhymes weave in and out of the pen-and-ink and digitally colored spreads. The cartoon art is eye-catching and as playful as the text, featuring photographed objects like curtains, cabbages, and caps. A final bump and fall brings the silliness to a satisfying conclusion, "But it's better to have bounced and bumped...than never to have bounced at all!" Preschoolers will relish the fun and respond to the infectious energy of this title.—Marge Loch-Wouters, Menasha Public Library, WI
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In this charming follow-up to Wiggle, Cronin, Menchin and their doggie hero guide readers in life lessons as a series of literal ups and downs. "If you bounce into a puddle," the chipper canine says as he leaps off a lamppost à la Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain, "it's best to bounce in boots." The author completes the rhyme on the following spread, which finds the pooch with a spring in his step in the produce department: "If you must bounce in the market,/ it's best not to bounce in fruits!" Parents will appreciate the words of caution when bouncing gets out of hand ("Bouncing with your best friend is called a bouncing double./ Bouncing on the couch is called big bouncing trouble"; Menchin shows the two airborne with only the couch's back visible, then tumbling to the floor with only the furniture's feet showing). The artist works in bold ink outlines and bright, even digital colors, and uses whimsical photographic images here and there for comic punctuation. Cronin and Menchin build to a bravura finish, with an allusion to love: "A bounce can turn into a bump,/ a bump into a fall./ But it's better to have bounced and bumped.../ than never to have bounced at all!" (the long-eared hero sports a plethora of bandages, but also a wistful smile). Readers young and old will likely enjoy bouncing through these pages. Ages 1-4. (May)
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The creators of Wiggle (2005) once again pair an action word (in this case bounce) with joyful pictures filled with movement to encourage kids and adults to join in. The sounds of the words ("hip-hop") with funny rhymes ("ker-plop") and the bright cartoon illustrations, defined by thick black lines and surrounded by lots of space, move from very simple activities to comical scenarios that stretch across several pages: "A bounce can turn into a jump, a bump into a fall. / But it's better to have bounced and bumped . . . than never to have bounced at all!" The final accompanying picture shows a proud dog sporting multiple bandages. The interactive elements here will bring very young children and books together. Hazel Rochman
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Bounce

By Doreen Cronin

Atheneum

Copyright © 2007 Doreen Cronin
All right reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-4169-1627-7

Chapter One

Let's
bounce
like
a frog!

ker-plop

ker-plop

I can
bounce a
beach ball
on the tip
of my
nose!

(Can You?!)

(Continues...)

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Edition details

• Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 141691627X
• ISBN 13: 9781416916277
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 40
• Illustrator: Menchin Scott