Simms Taback's City Animals [Hardcover]

Simms Taback (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 2 and up

This follow-up to Simms Taback's Safari Animals presents six city animals in a guessing-game format: a pigeon, a police horse, a squirrel, a dog, a cat, a swanall poster-size illustrations in Taback's one-of-a-kind style.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Simms Taback won a Caldecott Honor Award for There Was an Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly and the Caldecott Medal for Joseph Had a Little Overcoat, of which The Horn Book wrote, "The art sings with color and movement and humor and personality." He has also produced award-winning titles for Blue Apple, such as Simms Taback's Safari Animals (a 2008 Parents' Choice Gold Award winner), Peek-a-Boo, Who? (a 2006 Scholastic Parent & Child Best Book of the Year), and Simms Taback's Big Book of Words (a 2004 Child Best Book of the Year, 2004 Parenting Book of the Year, and a 2004 Parents' Choice Gold Award winner).

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 2 and up
  
• Hardcover: 20 pages
• Publisher: Blue Apple Books; Library Binding edition (April 8, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1934706523
• ISBN-13: 978-1934706527
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 8.8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #970,851 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Simms Taback grew up in the Bronx and graduated from Cooper Union. He has worked as an art director and a graphic designer, and has taught at the School of Visual Arts and Syracause University. He has illustrated many children's books, including I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly (Viking), Spacy Riddles, Snakey Riddles, Buggy Riddles, and Fishy Riddles (all written by Katy Hall and lIsa Eisenberg, Dial). His work has won many awards, including the Caldecott Honor Award Medal for I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly and a New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book. A father of three and grandfather of three, Mr. Taback lives with his wife in Willow, New York copyright ? 2000 by Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers. All rights reserved.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This IS a GIANT Fold-Out Book!, September 17, 2009

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Pam Tee "Busy Mom" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Simms Taback's City Animals (Hardcover)

If you are looking for a book for either a Toddler or younger Preschooler then do consider Simms Taback's new book. With bright and colorful artwork and clever fold-outs it is bound to please youngsters in a group setting, sitting on your lap, or reading alone.

Though the artwork is fun, the best part of the book is that kids get to guess what the animals are. There's a squirrel, dog, cat, horse, pigeon and mouse: all animals that they should be familiar with.

Here's how it works ==>Simms presents kids with a peek at a quarter of the entire picture along with two questions. For example, for the squirrel he first asks "Who am I?" to which he gives the clue: "I gather acorns." Undoing the first fold exposes another quarter of the cartoon-like image as well as the next clue: "I have a big furry tail."

These questions are great because they allow young children to engage their analytical skills and imaginations. The fold-outs even provide hand-eye coordination excise and a lesson in sequential ordering.

Talking Points :::
o This colorful book will a real pleaser for it's target audience of Toddlers and younger Preschoolers. It presents a simple puzzle in two parts, and then rewards them with a giant picture of a cute critter.

o The pages are fairly sturdy, but long term you might have to resort to tape. (This book WILL get lots of use!)

o The only thing I could thing I could have wished for was more, more, more. Would make a good gift.

Pam T~
mom and reviewer at BooksForKids-reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome book., October 26, 2010

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bogo (WI) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Simms Taback's City Animals (Hardcover)

Got this for my 2 yr old niece for her birthday. It was the only book that was opened at the party. Everyone oohed and ahh-ed and said what a cool book it is!