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This engaging board book offers a unique interactive experience for young children. Each page introduces a different animal with a suggestion for how a child can imitate that animal, such as "I can roar like a lion" and "I can snap like a turtle." In place of the animal's face on each brightly illustrated page is a four-inch circular cut-out, allowing the child to insert his or her own face and pretend to be the animal by acting out what the text instructs. Alternating between animal sounds ("I can hoot like an owl") and animal actions ("I can stick out my tongue like a snake"), this book provides children with loads of opportunities for imaginative play. It is also an excellent resource for teaching the youngest children about many kinds of animals. From a walrus to a cow, a cat to a bear, seventeen are featured in all, including household pets, farm favorites and creatures that live in the wild. The final page of the book concludes with the empowering message "I can be anything!" Created by the bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator Frank Asch, this book would work beautifully for a creative activity with preschoolers or kindergartners. It could be used one on one with a child or could be passed around the circle allowing each youngster to take a turn with the next animal. This is a truly fun book that young children are sure to request.
Author Notes
Frank Asch is the author and illustrator of more than 70 books for children. His picture books with Kids Can Press include Ziggy Piggy and the Three Little Pigs and Mr. Maxwell's Mouse (illustrated by his son, Devin Asch). Frank lives in Middletown Springs, Vermont.
Frank Asch is the author and illustrator of more than 70 books for children. His picture books with Kids Can Press include Ziggy Piggy and the Three Little Pigs and Mr. Maxwell's Mouse (illustrated by his son, Devin Asch). Frank lives in Middletown Springs, Vermont.
Reviews (2)
School Library Journal Review
Toddler-The distinguishing feature of this foot tall board book is the large die-cut circular hole, just right for toddlers to hold up and have their faces shine through. The pages are bedecked with Asch's signature simply outlined animal shapes (17 in all) and declarative sentences, such as "I can squeak like a mouse" and "I can oink like a pig." The very last page for little ones to peek through depicts a flower accompanied by the empowering message "I can be anything!" Something to roar about. © Copyright 2015. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
Children can pretend to be many different animals by putting their faces up to the large die-cut hole at the center of this interactive board-book offering. This is a combination/reprise of two prior Asch titles: I Can Blink Like an Owl (1997) and I Can Roar Like a Lion (1997). Against a plain blue background, each page depicts a large, simply rendered animal figure with a hole where the face would be so that when children put their own faces up to the book, they are transformed into a lion, mouse, turtle, walrus, pig, duck, cow, horse, goat, and more. Each image is paired with a first-person statement that encourages the child to sound like or move like an animal: "I can baa like a sheep" and "I can puff my cheeks like a squirrel," for example. On the final page, children's faces will form the center of a cheerful flower, and the accompanying words "I can be anything!" are a fitting conclusion to this celebration of imagination and pretend play. Great for adults and children to share, taking turns playing the parts of various animals. For more fun, have a mirror handy so kids can be delighted by their own transformations. (Board book. 2-4) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
