Easter babies A springtime counting book

Joy N. Hulme

Book - 2010

Presents numbers from one to twelve in illustrations of baby animals on a farm, children playing on a playground, and church bells ringing to welcome spring.

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Subjects
Genres
Stories in rhyme
Picture books
Published
New York : Sterling 2010.
Language
English
Main Author
Joy N. Hulme (-)
Other Authors
Dan Andreasen (illustrator)
Physical Description
unpaged : col. ill. ; 23 cm
ISBN
9781402763526
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Review by Booklist Review

Spring's renewal is represented by the newborns that appear during the season. There are plenty of babies to admire in this offering from the team that created Stable in Bethlehem: A Christmas Counting Book (2007). Adorable animals, from a wobbly foal to frisky lambs, provide lots of opportunities to count. The illustrations are rendered in soft, earthy hues that convey the sense of a season just waking up, while flashes of color baby-blue egg shells, painted Easter eggs promise bright days to come. This is a book that encourages sharing, preferably in a cozy chair.--Dean, Kara Copyright 2010 Booklist

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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

This Easter counting book features cheery pictures of baby animals on a farm. One newborn foal stands "on wobbly legs," while a nest of five baby birds screech with "wide open bills," and nine newborn kittens curl up on a pile of hay. There's a sweet, old-fashioned feel to Andreasen's paintings, as 11 children search for Easter eggs in a park-"racing, chasing, swinging"-and a final scene shows church bells ringing across a quaint village. Ages 3-up. (Feb.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

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Review by School Library Journal Review

PreS-Each digital and oil illustration of a farm animal is accompanied by one sentence of rhyming text with the appropriate numeral set in blue. "1 newborn foal gets to his feet/to walk on wobbly legs./2 brooding hens sit quite content/to hatch their nests of eggs." The concluding couplet, "In churches all around the town/12 Easter bells are ringing/. to celebrate the signs that spring/has brought new life to everything," is the only mention of the Christian holiday. The sweet, pastel spreads portray softly rounded animals with gentle faces in an idyllic country setting. However, Doreen Cronin's amusing Click Clack Splish Splash: A Counting Adventure (S & S) and Rebecca Fjelland Davis's educational Flowers and Showers: A Spring Counting Book (Capstone, both 2006) have more child appeal.-Linda L. Walkins, Mount Saint Joseph Academy, Brighton, MA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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Review by Horn Book Review

When signs of spring are in the air, / we look for babies everywhere!" This book features unremarkable but innocuous rhymes and placid, pleasant oil and digital illustrations starring round-headed baby animals. Despite the title, it's not particularly Easter-oriented until eleven children search for Easter eggs and the church bells peal. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.

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Review by Kirkus Book Review

"When signs of spring are in the air, / we look for babies everywhere!" With that opening the text proceeds to count up from one newborn foal and two brooding hens through five nestlings, eight piglets and ten ducklings through 12 Easter bells, which "are ringing ... / ... to celebrate the signs that spring / has brought new life to everything." Within the opening and concluding verses, the abcb rhyme scheme devotes a terminal rhyme to each counted item; the scansion sometimes labors to maintain this pattern. Andreasen's soft-focus paintings deliver almost uniformly adorable animalseven the scrawny just-hatched robins appear to be smiling. At 8.5" x 8.5", it will just fit into an oversized basket; make sure the kiddos brush their teeth after reading it. (Picture book. 2-5) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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