More Simple Signs

With picture clues and simple language, a follow-up to Simple Signs offers gestures from the American Sign Language of twenty-nine words commonly used in a child's everyday vocabulary and includes drawings of the sign alphabet.

PreSchool-Grade 2?An approachable, easy-to-understand book about sign language. Words such as "play," "yellow," and "girl" are presented on single pages with cheery full-color illustrations as well as smaller black-and-white line drawings of a child demonstrating the sign. Thus, frogs on lily pads appear on the page for "green" and a smiling youngster signs the color. The slim text consists of hints for making and remembering the sign. The sign for "girl," for example, mimics tying the strings of a bonnet, and the sign for "stop" shows hands formed like a barrier. This will be a popular addition for most collections.?Christine A. Moesch, Buffalo & Erie County Public Library, NY
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

A companion volume to Wheeler's earlier Simple Signs (1995, not reviewed, etc.), this cheerfully illustrated manual demonstrates the American Sign Language alphabet, plus signs for 31 basic words and phrases (e.g., stop, go, yes, please). Other well- known books on signing contain much larger vocabularies, but Wheeler's diagrams are far superior to the blurry action photos in Remy Charlip and Mary Miller's Handtalk, the tiny pictures in Linda Bove's Sign Language Fun, or the not-always-crystal-clear drawings in Pamela Baker's My First Book of Sign. Wheeler's line drawings, combined with succinct verbal instructions, make the formation of the letters very clear. An ideal first book on ASL, making self- instruction possible even for beginners. (Picture book. 4-9) -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

Gr. 1^-4. From the author/illustrator of Simple Signs (1995) comes another introductory picture book about sign language. Each page introduces a new word chosen from vocabulary that young children might actually use, such as sun, play, girl, sit, yellow, apple, yes, stop, monkey, and fish. A watercolor painting illustrates the object, action, or idea, while an ink drawing shows a child demonstrating the hand position and motion for the sign. Simple and pleasant in its design, this book will serve as an attractive resource for beginning students of sign language. Carolyn Phelan