Review by Booklist Review
Illustrator Davick (10 Easter Egg Hunters, 2011) debuts as an author with this beautifully orchestrated celebration of the human body. This is a perky paean to body parts, given from the perspectives of a bunch of very little kids. Naturally, the differences come first. The children have straight, curly, brown, red, long, and short hair, and they're different colors, too. The text then moves to what the various body parts can do: I love you, eyebrows / eyeballs, too! / I like to show / nice things to you. Davick's big, bright Photoshop illustrations depict the kids as happy cartoon melon-heads who bop to and fro, pulling the viewer from one spread to the next. Along the way, Davick gently introduces the idea of safety ( Be careful, body! / Whoa, beep, beep! / Make sure to look / before you leap. ) before ending with a few words of thanks: Body, you're the one for me. / If not for you . . . / where would I be? Light, bouncy education for the youngest set.--Fletcher, Connie Copyright 2010 Booklist
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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review
Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" for the preschool set? Perhaps not, but one hopes that the "poet of democracy" would have gotten a kick out of rhymes like "I love you nose,/ though there's no doubt/ that when you sneeze/ some stuff comes out." Illustrator Davick, in her first outing as author, leaves no body part uncelebrated; her rambunctious, roundheaded kids and succinct, just-wry-enough couplets also cover nipples ("east and west") and "the parts that my friends don't see/ the parts that poop, the parts that pee." With generously scaled, dramatically cropped compositions and a cheery schoolroom palette, Davick makes every page-turn a surprise and a renewed invitation to join the lovefest. In one of the cleverest spreads, a celebration of hair shows four sets of round eyes peering at one another, with two longhaired kids hanging upside and two with shorter 'dos peeking up from the bottom of the frame. The unalloyed wonder and delight that animate these pages is like a breath of fresh air-and should win over the most reticent audiences. Ages 2-7. Agent: East West Literary Agency. (Apr.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
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Review by School Library Journal Review
PreS-Gr 1-This ode to children's bodies hits all the high and low notes, but fails to shine. In mostly successful rhyming verse that at times slides into doggerel, Davick's round-headed children celebrate all the parts of their bodies, from "I love you hair upon my head." to "I love the parts my friends don't see: the parts that poop, the parts that pee." There is no plot; this is simply a rhyming laundry list turned into a love song. The cheerful youngsters who fill the pages come in both genders and many ethnicities, although the cartoonish style renders them uniform in shape and size. The illustrations are primarily single- and double-page full-bleed spreads, with solid, candy-colored backgrounds. Props and backdrops are minimal, and there are occasional white pages with a circle of children representing the body parts in question. The round-eyed, smiling, simplistic youngsters are appealing. An acceptable purchase, although it won't top anyone's list of favorites.-Amy Lilien-Harper, The Ferguson Library, Stamford, CT (c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Review by Horn Book Review
"I love you, hair / upon my head, / straight or curly, / brown or red." From hair to tummies to toes and everything in between, Davick's peppy ode to all our parts successfully uses humor and a little age-appropriate information to deliver its energetic message about celebrating the bodies we've got. The infectious rhymes are well matched by clean, friendly illustrations, which feature large ice-cream-colored pages with wide-eyed, smiling kids front and center. Both the pictures' lack of background and the simple, bouncy text make this ideal for group sharing -- though young listeners might find it hard to keep still. At times Davick seems to be encouraging kids to join in: "I love you, back -- / you're out of sight! / Can almost hug you, / but not quite" is accompanied by seven kids sitting in a circle (around the text), each desperately trying to hug his or her own back. Private areas (nipples, "the parts that poop, / the parts that pee") are lightheartedly (and discreetly) included in the package. Davick ends on a vaguely philosophical note: "Body, you're / the one for me. / If not for you... / where would I be?" Not doing the hokey-pokey, that's for sure. kitty flynn (c) Copyright 2013. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Review by Kirkus Book Review
A bubbly celebration of the human body. In upbeat, musical verse, children declare their love for their hair, their toes and everything in between. The text is funny, silly and sometimes irreverent, as in the following: "I love you nose, / though there's no doubt / that when you sneeze / some stuff comes out." Davick is careful to leave no body parts out of the raucous celebration. Take, for example, the following verse: "I love the parts / my friends don't see: / the parts that poop, / the parts that pee," which is accompanied by an illustration featuring a profile view of a smiling girl reading a big, red book while perched on a toilet, with roll of toilet paper in reach. The computer-generated illustrations feature solid backgrounds and close-up images of smiling, ethnically diverse children with pleasing, if generic, cartoonlike expressions. In support of the text, the children are depicted running, playing and otherwise putting all those body parts through their paces. Sharing this jolly, cheeky ode with little ones will produce some giggles while helping to instill an appreciation for the wondrous human body and all its necessary parts. (Picture book. 2-6)]] Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
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