Jan Ormerod

Advantages: Fun and you already know the tune
Disadvantages: N/A

...32 Pages Recomended Listening age 0-3 Good for age about 3 for reading Jan Ormerod has illustrated more than 50 books, this book features her absolutely charming characters Poppy and Max. This animal romp explores the different ways of expressing happiness. This book is based on the song that everyone knows - now my whole family as my niece has carried this book with her for some three weeks and made everyone that she can read and rhyme and sing the story to her! She is 20 months old now and giggles loudly as she tries to follow along and copy the movements. Each of the animals on each page has their own means of expressing happiness so you ae drawn into a performance of different facial expressions and contortions whilst singing the words. If you're a human and happy you can clap your hands but as an animal you can also wag your... Read review

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Advantages: Good story with audience participation
Disadvantages: Audio CD nothing special

...Overview This story was a present to my son when he was about 15 months old. He'd just got into making animal sounds so this was a very appropriate book. The story is about animals and the different ways that they move and is written by Jan Ormerod and illustrated by Lindsey Gardiner. It comes with an audio CD as well. The story starts off with a picture of a mouse in the jungle. "If you like to dance and you sometimes sing, why don't you do the animal thing?" This is typical of the text throughout the book, rhyming is a funky kind of way. As the pages progress you get to see how different animals move, from penguins to snakes, and monkey's to lizards. The words tell you the different ways that the animals move which can easily be copied by the reader by using the illustrations of the animals doing the movements. On each page... Read review

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Advantages: lovely picture book based on popular song
Disadvantages: none

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