Tom Slaughter

I loved [b:Do You Know Which Ones Will Grow|10427002|Do You Know Which Ones Will Grow?|Susan A. Shea|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1333598567s/10427002.jpg|15331386] so I eagerly snapped this up when it came to my library. Interestingly, it has the same illustrator, but a different author, and yet the results are right on par. Both books ask readers to puzzle out simple but interesting questions. In Do You Know it was whether something was alive or not. In What Is Part This a variety of things are broken down into two parts and the kids can either guess what the second part is (from the rhymes and illustrations there are ample clues) or in some cases guess which thing is being described from the parts. Here are some examples:

Just like a bee is part BUZZ and part STING,
A rap song is part TALK and part SING.

This pretty mermaid is part FISH and part GIRL.
What's found in the sea that's part SHELL and part PEARL?

Can't wait to do this in story time.… (lisätietoja)

This book features big and small, not at all, short and tall, over and under, up and down, inside and outside, country in town, above and below, square and round, black and white, and day and night.

The illustrations are bright solid shapes, often silhouettes. The animals have no expression and the book has no tension. I tried twice to interest my 22-month-old granddaughter in it but she quickly became bored. She does like books of opposites but this one was just too dull.

There are a lot better books out there on antonyms.… (lisätietoja)