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A joyful board book to share with young children that will have them jumping with glee.
A frog jumps. Boing! A kitten jumps. Boi-ing! A dog jumps. Boiyyyyyyoiingg! A grasshopper jumps, a rabbit jumps, then a snail...uhm, maybe not. Mother and chick jump together, a fish jumps out of the water, and last comes a little girl to join the fun... I jump too--BOING!
This fun interactive book for babies and toddlers will get readers off their feet and bouncing up and down. With funny anatomically correct animal illustrations by award-winning Japanese illustrator Tatsuhide Matsuoka.
Impossible to read sitting down and designed to read sideways so that the animals jump vertically up the page, this simple story is a perfect gift book to share with young children.
Tatsuhide Matsuoka is one of Japan''s foremost illustrators. He has won the Japan Picture Book Award, the Japan Science Book Award and the Shogakukan Children''s Publication Culture Award.
Over half a million copies sold in Japan.
Praise for Jump
"As a book to inspire movement, this one bounds."--starred, Publishers Weekly
"It will be a delightful addition to any read aloud story time or emergent reader''s library."--Foreword Magazine
"Matsuhide is one of Japan''s foremost illustrators, and this lovely book is a testimony to excellent art and an original, well-executed idea."--BookTrust
"It''s almost guaranteed that little ones--and maybe even their grown-ups--will be airborne before the final page is turned."--Children''s Books Ireland, Picture This Reading Guide selection
Culture Award.Over half a million copies sold in Japan.
Praise for Jump
"As a book to inspire movement, this one bounds."--starred, Publishers Weekly
"It will be a delightful addition to any read aloud story time or emergent reader''s library."--Foreword Magazine
"Matsuhide is one of Japan''s foremost illustrators, and this lovely book is a testimony to excellent art and an original, well-executed idea."--BookTrust
"It''s almost guaranteed that little ones--and maybe even their grown-ups--will be airborne before the final page is turned."--Children''s Books Ireland, Picture This Reading Guide selection
Culture Award.Over half a million copies sold in Japan.
Praise for Jump
"As a book to inspire movement, this one bounds."--starred, Publishers Weekly
"It will be a delightful addition to any read aloud story time or emergent reader''s library."--Foreword Magazine
"Matsuhide is one of Japan''s foremost illustrators, and this lovely book is a testimony to excellent art and an original, well-executed idea."--BookTrust
"It''s almost guaranteed that little ones--and maybe even their grown-ups--will be airborne before the final page is turned."--Children''s Books Ireland, Picture This Reading Guide selection
Culture Award.Over half a million copies sold in Japan.
Praise for Jump
"As a book to inspire movement, this one bounds."--starred, Publishers Weekly
"It will be a delightful addition to any read aloud story time or emergent reader''s library."--Foreword Magazine
"Matsuhide is one of Japan''s foremost illustrators, and this lovely book is a testimony to excellent art and an original, well-executed idea."--BookTrust
"It''s almost guaranteed that little ones--and maybe even their grown-ups--will be airborne before the final page is turned."--Children''s Books Ireland, Picture This Reading Guide selection
any read aloud story time or emergent reader''s library."--Foreword Magazine"Matsuhide is one of Japan''s foremost illustrators, and this lovely book is a testimony to excellent art and an original, well-executed idea."--BookTrust
"It''s almost guaranteed that little ones--and maybe even their grown-ups--will be airborne before the final page is turned."--Children''s Books Ireland, Picture This Reading Guide selection
Reviews (3)
School Library Journal Review
Toddler-PreS--A cat, a dog, a grasshopper, a fish, a rabbit, a pair of chickens, and a little girl all fly through the air with the greatest of ease. (Though the snail has a bit of trouble.) The creatures gaze solemnly at readers, but then each leaps: BOING! Limbs splayed, mouths wide, these animals cut comical figures, the absurdism heightened by Matsuoka's graceful, streamlined design. Children will be begging for this one again and again.
Publisher's Weekly Review
This exuberant board book by Matsuoka still feels fresh and unique 19 years after its Japanese debut. Animals defy gravity--and the volume's modest trim size--by leaping vertically from recto to verso (or, when the book is held sideways, as intended, simply up). The animals are each introduced simply ("A frog jumps," reads the initial spread), then the page turns and the action begins. Realistically detailed animals with stoic expressions and flamboyant moves lend a delightfully absurd mood, and ample white space creates an elegant background for the bouncers' energy. Encouraging the reader to create each leap anew, onomatopoeic "Boing!"s are rendered in different orientations, sizes, and colors to offset the repetition, and one animal amusingly fails to catch any air, though not for lack of effort. Finally, a pigtailed child ("And I jump, too") brings the action back home. As a book to inspire movement, this one bounds. Ages 2--4. (Aug.)
Kirkus Review
A playful and kinetic assemblage of animals.As the title implies, this volume celebrates the act of jumping, as demonstrated by nine different types of animals. A simple and elegant whimsy underlies every aspect of the book, beginning with the practical conceit of reorienting the book by 90 degrees. After each animal is introduced ("A frog jumps," for example), an upward flip of the page reveals a picture of it vaulting skyward. Author Matsuoka has won picture-book, science-book, and children's-book awards in his native Japan, and it's easy to see why. The creatures in this book have a cartoonish degree of personality. The big-eyed frog, for example, smiles softly in a lazy squat; in midflight, it has a proportional, fat-bellied, anatomical correctness. The grasshopper is another striking and even startling example, all legs and head in the first picture, then legs, body, and wings fully extended midleap. Apart from lines implying upward movement, there's a beautiful static quality to these snapshots of motion. Each jump is accompanied by a vibrant "BOING!" (or "Boi-oi-oi-oi-oing!" as the case may be), which makes for read-aloud fun for caregiver and child alike. Snails, readers learn, are predictably poor jumpers. "And I jump, too," announces the young, Asian-presenting child who executes the final leap, placing humans in context within the animal kingdom.Delightfulpounce on it! (Board book. 1-4) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
