AUTHOR: Sue Williams
ARTIST: Julie Vivas
STORY: A child goes on an adventure and meets many animals. This is a lovely and educational story teaching about animals and colours. The child sees a black cat, then a brown horse, then a red cow, a brown horse, a green duck, a pink pig and a yellow dog until there is a parade of animals following along.
ILLUSTRATIONS: Large and simple watercolour paintings by Julie Vivas that show the child's love of animals.
SNIPPET: I went walking. What did you see? I saw a black cat Looking at me.
RECOMMENDED: For babies to 6 year olds
WHY I LOVE IT: Young children really engage with this book and enjoy identifying the animals and colours, and making animal noises and reciting the rhythmical text. The book's layout creates a visual guessing game by only showing part of each animal at first. I also like how the child could be either a boy or a girl.
EXTENSION:
Take your children on a walk outdoors and see what they see during their walk.
Animal cards for sequencing, memory games, cutting and colouring.
Create a felt board of the animals.
Free printables PDF for older children - reading and writing activities.
PURCHASE: from Amazon
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