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Off We Go!

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Follow some baby forest animals as they scamper and romp their way to grandma's. Delightful watercolors of scurrying little critters, and words of sound and movement accompany the tiny feet as they rush to grandma's house because "grandma's house is always best." A great read aloud and read along for emerging readers. A great tie-in for national poetry month, baby animals, and just sheer language fun.

The beautiful illustrations of this lyrical story exuberantly fly off the page, mud splattering, water splashing and more. The text - telling how various animals make their way to Grandma's house in all differnt ways - is the type of sing-song sound laden verse that's fun to read and re-read and re-read along with your child ("Tip-toe, tippety toe, Hip-hop, hippity hop, Dig-deep, diggety deep"). But, its the illustrations that make the book sing. Watercolors that are at once delicate and exuberant, Laurel Molk has captured dazzling webs woven by spiders, crumbly earth thrown out by digging moles and mud and pond water following a frog's leap through the air. Great book!

My six year old loves this book. A bit much for her to read on her own, but we enjoy it thoroughly.

I really hope the author and illustrator read this review so they will know how much their book is loved!

... The rhymes are fun to read and the illustrations are gorgeous. My son is clearly entranced by the pictures and loves to look at them by himself. The book contains a few animals we don't see in other books (moles, spiders) which I like - it is nice to have a break from cows/horses/etc. The pictures are also fairly realistic.

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Jane Yolen's Off We Go! tells of baby animals who embark on ajourney to Grandmother's house. Each animal has a very different homedestination in this simple rhyme story.

I love rhyming books best, and I love watercolor artwork best of all artwork, especially this style which lets the watercolors pool and mix and do the gorgeous things the medium can do. If this artist has a show near me, I would go. No exaggeration there, I am completely enamored with her style.

This book is both gorgeous and delightful to read. I hope the author and illustrator make more!

I read the reviews and thought I'd give it a try. When I first got the book I wasn't sure it would be the catchy book I thought it would be. I read it once and my child absolutely loves it. I can now see why. I start a sentence now and she'll finish it. She is a few months shy of being 3. I even hear her say some of the lines while she is playing with a toy.

About the content of the book: It talks about going to grandma's house and how all these different types of animals have different methods of getting there in a very word catchy way that children like.

We bought this for our son when he was a year old and he loved it! It is a very creative and playful rhyme about 5 different animals and their different ways of traveling on the way to Grandma's house. Because it got destroyed, we purchased another for our daughter, plus two more for relatives, because we like it so much! The story is simple, but it's the sound of the words that makes this book so engaging!

This is a great book for babies on up. As a 3-month-old, my son loved resting on my tummy as I read this book to him. The rhythm--tip toe, tippity toe--made him giggle every time! Now, as a 19-month-old, he has returned to this book because the pictures, the story, and the rhythm are all enjoyable!!

I first happened upon this book at the library and fell in love! There aren't many books that you stand reading over and over and over again but this one is simple and fun and the rhymes are very amusing! My son always smiles at me while I am reading this book. A must have!