Creature Count: A Prehistoric Rhyme

by Brenda Huante, Vincent Nguyen (Illustrator)

Overview

Once upon a prehistoric time . . . One woolly baby trumpets with mother mammoth.Two flying reptiles soar with mom pteranodon.Three toothy kittens snarl with mother sabertooth. Set to the classic counting rhyme "Over in the Meadow," Brenda Huante's catchy text makes a perfect read-aloud, and illustrator Vincent Nguyen's adorable dinosaurs and early mammals are simply irresistible.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781466821804
Publisher:	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date:	07/03/2012
Sold by:	Macmillan
Format:	eBook
Pages:	28
File size:	27 MB
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Age Range:	3 - 6 Years

About the Author

Brenda Huante lives with her family in McMinnville, Oregon. Creature Count is her first book.

Vincent Nguyen has illustrated many children's books, including Buzz by Eileen Spinelli. He lives in New York City.

Editorial Reviews

“Little hatchlings will likewise stretch, hoot and snuggle down cozily as they listen.” —Kirkus

From the Publisher

A jaunty prehistoric version of "Over in the Meadow" with a cast of particularly happy-looking dinos and extinct mammals. From "a mother woolly mammoth and her little woolly one" to "a mother maiasaur and her little hatchlings ten," family groups wreathed in smiles and depicted in vivid greens, blues and purples variously trumpet, boom, hoot, snarl, stretch and munch. Without doing violence to the rhythm's familiar cadences, Huante varies the opening lines ("On a prehistoric mountain where the sky was so blue…" "Near a prehistoric swamp by a long, curling vine…"). Nguyen brings all of the creatures together for a closing snuggle "in the moonlight of a prehistoric night." Lest younger readers be left with the impression that that could ever actually happen, the author explains on a closing spread that these creatures lived in different eras, and goes on beneath vignette portraits to provide a sentence or two of basic facts about each. While the aesthetic is not a particularly demanding one, there is no doubt of its appeal to the smallest dino-maniacs--even "mother T. Rex and her terrible rexes six" look cuddly. Little hatchlings will likewise stretch, hoot and snuggle down cozily as they listen. (Picture book. 2-5)

Kirkus Reviews