Heads

by Matthew Van Fleet, Matthew Van Fleet (Illustrator)

Overview

From the #1 New York Times bestselling children’s book creator Matthew Van Fleet.

Eye-Popping Fun for Toddlers!

Eight ingenious pull tabs, seven pettable textures, and an astonishing fold-out finale deliver interactive surprises on every page as a cast of irresistible critters use their heads to demonstrate opposites, actions, and more!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781442403796
Publisher:	Little Simon
Publication date:	08/24/2010
Pages:	18
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 10.50(h) x 1.80(d)
Age Range:	Up to 2 Years

About the Author

Matthew Van Fleet’s innovative books have been introducing children to basic concepts for more than twenty years. His uniquely designed board books invite toddlers to touch, press, pull, lift, and even sniff as they explore colors, shapes, numbers, letters, opposites, and more. His New York Times bestselling titles include Cat, Heads, Alphabet, and Moo, as well as the #1 New York Times bestsellers Tails and Dog. His books have sold more than 9.6 million copies and have been translated around the world. He lives with his family in New York. Visit him online at VanFleetBooks.com.

Matthew Van Fleet’s innovative books have been introducing children to basic concepts for more than twenty years. His uniquely designed board books invite toddlers to touch, press, pull, lift, and even sniff as they explore colors, shapes, numbers, letters, opposites, and more. His New York Times bestselling titles include Cat, Heads, Alphabet, and Moo, as well as the #1 New York Times bestsellers Tails and Dog. His books have sold more than 9.6 million copies and have been translated around the world. He lives with his family in New York. Visit him online at VanFleetBooks.com.

Editorial Reviews

* This touch-and-feel companion to Van Fleet's bestselling Tails (2003) is interactive even before page one, with a pull-tab cover in which animals move letters into place to spell out the title. The book is stuffed with myriad textures, detailed watercolor illustrations, and playful rhymes ("Bite mouth,/ Shout mouth,/ Slobber mouth,/ Slurp!/ Nibble mouth,/ Chew mouth,/ Rude mouths... BURP!"); a hippo's mouth opens wide during said burp—just one of a couple of kid-pleasing gross-out moments. All the animals, from axolotl to tamandua, are labeled on the final spread, after a fold-out surprise ending. It's a buoyant celebration of the animal kingdom's diversity. - Publishers Weekly, June 28, 2010, *STAR

Discover the hidden talents of more than 30 (supercute) animals with the pull of a tab.—Parenting Early Years, August 2010

From the Publisher

Animals characterized by distinctive features are displayed accordingly, if haphazardly. From heads (woolly llama heads, hairy tamarins, pointy rhinos, beaky toucans and billed platypi) through necks, ears, mouths, tongues, noses and eyes, a variety of animals are showcased, often with touch-and-feel elements and with one animal per spread featuring pull-tab action. Elephant ears twitch, a hippo mouth belches. These tabs and movable parts are sturdy enough for repeated toddler (ab)use. Purists will complain that animals are thrown together with no regard for common habitat, and grammarians will cringe at the syntax and forced rhyme: "Bite mouth, / Shout mouth, / Slobber mouth, / Slurp! / Nibble mouth, / Chew mouth, / Rude mouths... / BURP!" The closing fold-out that features all the animals, labeled, tumbling in a whale's spout is cool, though, even if it's zoologically impossible. (Pop-up. 2-5)

Kirkus Reviews