You Can't Catch Me - Hardcover

Doyle, Charlotte

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0694010383 ISBN 13: 9780694010387

Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens Books, 1998

Synopsis

Delighted in by toddlers everywhere, a familiar sport is captured in bold, full-color illustrations that prove that getting caught--especially in a reassuring embrace--is even more fun than getting away.

About this title

About the Author:

Charlotte Doyle is the author of Freddie’s Spaghetti, Hello Baby, and Where’s Bunny’s Mommy? She is Roy E. Larson Professor of psychology at Sarah Lawrence College and writer-in-residence at the college’s Early Childhood Center. She lives in Bronxville, NY.

Rosanne Litzinger is the illustrator of Sing, Sophie by Dayle Ann Dodds and Louella May, She’s Run Away by Karen Beaumont Alarcon. She lives in Los Angeles, CA.

From School Library Journal:

PreSchool-Grade 1AA breezy, bold, and energetic book. A simple text describes a game of chase: a dog follows a cat, a bug pursues a bee, two squirrels run around a tree, and a round-faced child calls out, "And someone's chasing me!" In the end, the animals are all caught by their pursuers, and a mother appears on the final page to catch the youngster in a loving embrace. Litzinger's cheerful paintings carry the book. Strong colors fill the pages and lots of movement reinforces the action. Many elements of the illustrations embellish, yet echo, the spare story, including the simple humor in the hiding and chasing scenes (the bee bottom-up inside a rose). Simple shapes such as triangles, circles, and oblongs mold the characters and landscape (bulgy eyes; a round hat; and triangles for faces, paws, and ears). The repetitive text and basic vocabulary could be managed by early independent readers or read aloud to toddlers. Fanciful and lively.AJacqueline Elsner, Athens Regional Library, GA
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About this edition

• Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens Books
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0694010383
• ISBN 13: 9780694010387
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 24
• Illustrator: Litzinger Rosanne