This book talks about having a mom, which seems simple - but for some students can be a very difficult topic. Monsters in Trucks / Tiny T.I found this book on an old dusty bookshelf in my living room and knew I wanted to talk about it.Clutch / Dragon Storm: Connor and Lightspirit.Fairytale Ninjas: The Glass Slipper Academy / Slugs Invade the Jam Factory.The Unbelievable Top Secret Diary of Pig.Small Stanley’s Big List of Scary Stuff.Mabel’s Topsy-Turvy Homes / Simon the Hugger.A Child Like You / People Power: Peaceful Protests that Changed the World.Marvellous Margot / Nila’s Perfect Coat.One Button Benny and the Dinosaur Dilemma.Penguins Don’t Wear Pink / Missing Violet.50 Words About Nature: Animals, 50 Words About Nature: Bugs / I Want To Be A Lion, I Want To Be A Monkey.I’m Not Scared: A Big Hedgehog and Little Hedgehog Adventure.Monster Support Group: The Werewolf’s Tale.Zeki Goes To The Park / Grandads Are the Greatest.Total Splashdown / Press Start: Super Rabbit Racers!.Mermaid Academy: Isla and Bubble / The Magic Faraway Tree: A New Adventure.The final page offers a list of the specific names of the animal babies featured as well as the collective noun(s) for each animal group. Animal mothers love their babies,/ just as yours loves you.’ response follows. Both will enjoy the characteristic Carle collage illustrations with their bright colours and distinctively textured animal images.Ī final question breaks out of the repeat patterned mould asking, ‘ And do animal mothers love their babies?’ To which a satisfying albeit predictable ‘ Yes! Yes! Of course they do. In response to the narrator’s initial question, Carle replies, ‘Yes, a kangaroo has a mother./ Just like me and you.’ And so begins a chain of questions and answers, identical except for the name of the animal be it lion, giraffe, penguin, swan, bear, elephant or monkey, The repeat patterned, slightly singsong narrative makes this appealing to the very young and it might also serve as a book for beginning readers to try for themselves. Talking of kangaroos, new in paperback is Also reissued along with this one are Where Are You, Blue Kangaroo? and Happy Birthday, Blue Kangaroo! If, like me you missed this gorgeous book the first time around, then do get a copy now no family bookshelf is complete without it (and the other titles in the series). this book positively glows with colour and overflows with tenderness. and then, courtesy of Grandma, Blue Kangaroo himself.įull of love, with its inherent themes of families, change and friendship. First baby Jack to whom Lily, difficult at the outset though it proved, did her very best to be a good big sis. This is a new edition of I think, the 8 th in the Blue Kangaroo series and here Lily, who has recently become a big sister to baby Jack, tells her beloved kangaroo friend how they’d both come into her life.
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