Awards

• Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year
• Kirkus Best Board Book of 2022
• Winner of White Ravens Award 2022

Overview

A delightful board book for toddlers and adults to have fun experimenting with words to create funny new ones. Selected as a White Raven 2022, Kirkus Reviews Best Board Books 2022 and Bank Street Best Children's Books 2023. Playful animals get up to everyday toddler mischief in this board book built on child-based wordplay, where each page twists animal names into funny new words that are fun to share. With illustrations drawn from a toddlers world, babies and young children will recognise each activity—getting dressed, playing, painting (including themselves), having a bath, using the potty—and see how the animal makes the mischievous most of it. The bumblebee breaks its toy—bumblebee grumblebee! The cockatoo is getting dressed—cockatoo sockatoo! The pelican tries out the potty—pelican smellican! What will turtle do? Everybody gathers for the final squirtle. Built for adults, babies and toddlers to share and read aloud, this fresh and sweet board book encourages experimentation with words and sounds, just by changing a letter or two.   Other books by David Elliot: Oink Henry’s Map  

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9781776574025

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Reviews

A fun, rhyming, whimsical board book which makes us laugh out loud-perfect book for under twos! -- The Sunday Star Times Sticking the landing in a board book is an art. David Elliot? A master. -- School Library Journal It wouldn't surprise me to find this clutched as a much-loved treasure in the arms of a sleeping child. -- Magpies Magazine Delightful images and carefully selected text combine for a silly, innovative, entirely enjoyable read. -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review

A fun, rhyming, whimsical board book which makes us laugh out loud-perfect book for under twos! -- The Sunday Star Times Sticking the landing in a board book is an art. David Elliot? A master. -- School Library Journal It wouldn't surprise me to find this clutched as a much-loved treasure in the arms of a sleeping child. -- Magpies Magazine Delightful images and carefully selected text combine for a silly, innovative, entirely enjoyable read. -- Kirkus Reviews, Best Board Books of 2022, starred review Sweet, beautifully detailed pastel illustrations. -- Bank Street Best Children's Books 2022: Holiday Gift Edition

Gorgeous Books to Expand the Youngest Minds: The delicacy and subtlety of the art only adds to the frisky humor. * The New York Times * Told only in animal dialect and sound effects but with brilliant visual details, this story will become a bathtime favorite. * Kirkus Reviews, Starred *

Gorgeous Books to Expand the Youngest Minds: The delicacy and subtlety of the art only adds to the frisky humor. * The New York Times * Told only in animal dialect and sound effects but with brilliant visual details, this story will become a bathtime favorite. * Kirkus Reviews, Starred * Stands out in a field of rather pedestrian animal board books as it is not only funny but the last few pages are particularly wonderful...Children will want this book read over and over again and will quickly join in and shout out the words. * Read NZ * A fun, rhyming, whimsical board book which makes us laugh out loud-perfect book for under twos! * Sunday Star Times *

Author Information

David Elliot is one of New Zealand’s leading children’s book illustrators. He has won many awards, including the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year Award and the Russell Clark Award for Illustration at the 2017 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults for Snark. Elliot has an international reputation, and has illustrated for Brian Jacques’ Redwall and Castaways series, for U.S. authors T.A. Barron and Jeffrey Kluger, and for John Flanagan’s bestselling Ranger’s Apprentice series. Elliot was born in Ashburton and lives in Dunedin. David Elliot is one of New Zealand’s leading children’s book illustrators. He has won many awards, including the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year Award and the Russell Clark Award for Illustration at the 2017 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults for Snark. Elliot has an international reputation, and has illustrated for Brian Jacques’ Redwall and Castaways series, for U.S. authors T.A. Barron and Jeffrey Kluger, and for John Flanagan’s bestselling Ranger’s Apprentice series. Elliot was born in Ashburton and lives in Dunedin.

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