Bestselling artist Woodleigh Marx Hubbard breathes new life into an age-old holiday favorite. Brimming with visual puns, every page in this exuberant book is filled with amusing characters joyously celebrating the season. The perfect gift book, it also includes 12 whimsical press-out ornaments that are sure to be treasured for many holidays to come. Full color.
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From Publishers Weekly
Waggish gouache paintings and a playful, cursive typeface rev up Hubbard's (Hip Cat) rendition of the traditional cumulative carol. Four "calling" birds squawking to one another on the telephone and 12 frogs leaping among cups of eggnog are among the inventive interpretations here. A rebus-like line of numbers and symbols skips along the bottom of each page, reminding readers of the previous verses to the song. A dozen sturdy punch-out keepsake ornaments are included. All ages.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews
Readers have heard it a trillion times before and still can't remember the verses. But in this version of the carol, Hubbard (The Friendship Book, 1992, etc.) provides solutions to both issues. This witty reinterpretation of too-familiar phrases ingeniously depicts the song's slightly archaic words as children might imagine them. Thus, ``four calling birds'' comes with a quartet of chatty chickens yakking away on the telephone. Belled dogs provide the five gold rings. The French hens wear, of course, berets. The bottom of each page shows an accumulating list of icons to help children keep the verses straight, cues that even pre-readers will have fun decoding. Carnival colors and Hubbard's funky drawing style create a festive holiday atmosphere. Included are cardboard cut-out ornaments of the drawings. (Picture book. 4-10) -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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Awesome illustrations, fun book!,
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This review is from: Twelve Days of Christmas (Hardcover)
My 5 year-old son has had so much fun with this book! He can "read along" and memorize the song because of little pictures at the bottom to remind them of each past "day" of Christmas. It also comes with cardboard "ornaments" that represent each day of Christmas. My son liked to spread them out and match them with each page in the book. We have truely enjoyed this book and highly reccomend it!
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