About the Author:
Karen Baicker lives in Maplewood, New Jersey, with her husband and two young children, Lucy and Jake. Tumble Me Tumbily was her first children's book, and she is also the author of I Can Do It Too! and Pea Pod Babies . Besides writing for children, she is
Ken Wilson-Max lives in London, where his art is as enthusiastically acclaimed as it is in the US. In addition to illustrating books for children by various writers, he also illustrates books for children that he has written himself, such as Big Silver Spa
From Booklist:
PreS. Nothing is complicated here; just a pure story line and kid-friendly artwork that zero in on a child's mastery of the everyday. A young African American girl, bows dotting her hair, narrates the text. Each spread informs the listener what some member of the narrator's family can do (Daddy pours the juice, Grandma bakes, etc.), followed by a tag line that children will respond to, "I can do it too!" The bold art brings the characters up close, with the adults on the left-hand side of the page and the girl on the right (except for one picture of two children together). Children who look closely will notice that the little girl doesn't always do things perfectly (juice spills, buttons are done up crookedly), but her enthusiasm is contagious. The pictures, in Wilson-Max's signature style, have the look of kids' artwork, but the perspectives and colors are unobtrusively sophisticated. A winner for perusing alone or reading at storytimes. Ilene Cooper
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