Review by Booklist Review
Ages 2-4. Sprawling across the pages, children representing a variety of ethnic backgrounds are chalked in strong strokes of subdued color. Hanging upside down, with her head filling the entire double-page spread, a young girl points to the body part that's for ``thinking and knowing,'' while a boy crouching within the illustration's confines tearfully shows a bandaged knee ``for falling down.'' A concluding sudsy spread features a bathing child whose skin ``bundles me in'' to punchily conclude the rhyme that skips through this slim volume cheerily identifying key parts of the human body. EM. Body, Human Fiction / Stories in rhyme [CIP] 86-25842
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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review
winning collaboration, which portrays assorted body parts and their uses. Ages 2-6. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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Review by School Library Journal Review
PreS A delightfully simple book of rhymes about parts of the body: ``Here is my head /for thinking and knowing. /Here is my nose /for smelling and blowing.'' The book includes hands, feet, head, nose, eyes, ears, knees, neck, cheeks, teeth, arm, and finally the ``skin /that bundles me in.'' A colorful double-page picture of a child showing the part of the body featured accompanies each rhyme. These are expressive and simple, and include children of various races and both sexes. Even though the featured part is sometimes lost in the gutter of the book, this is an enjoyable offering that should find its way into toddler story hours, nursery schools, and many children's hands. Nancy A. Gifford, Schenectady County Public Lib . , N.Y. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Review by Kirkus Book Review
A dozen suitably assorted five- or six-year-olds point out different parts of the body, each accompanied by half of a rhymed couplet: ""Here are my feet for stopping and going. Here is my head, for thinking and knowing."" A simple idea, at first glance, but carefully developed to suggest the dramas of childhood--the knees for falling (and skinning), the neck for turning (a game but apprehensive haircut recipient), the cheeks for kissing and blushing (a delicious Valentine of an Oriental face), the ears for washing--and, in the illustration, listening to a shell with deftly captured wonder. Rand's ebullient, exuberantly drawn kids fill the pages, almost life-size. On jacket and title page they're all lined up in a Chorus Line-like array--a perfectly organized arrangement that celebrates their humanity and individuality. With bright colors, simple but evocative illustrations and a clear, succinct text, this is just right for the youngest when they are learning to describe themselves. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
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