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Overview

Double born.
Twice the blessing.
Double kids.
Twice the messing.
Twins mean double the kisses and double the fun. It's double the joy for everyone!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780689844942
Publisher:	Margaret K. McElderry Books
Publication date:	05/01/2003
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	641,054
Product dimensions:	10.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Margaret O'Hair has her master's degree in education and is a teacher in northern California, where she lives with her family and her Portuguese Water Dog, Shelby. Her two children, born a little over a year apart, were the inspiration for Twin to Twin, her first book.

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Double born.
Twice the blessing.
Double kids.
Twice the messing.

Twins mean double the kisses and double the fun. It's double the joy for everyone!

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Editorial Reviews

Thierry Courtin's illustrations of androgynous redheaded boy and girl twins (hair bows are the visible difference) are charming, and include lots of objects toddlers can recognize, like trucks and ducks and teddy bears. — Rebecca Boggs Roberts

The New York Times

O'Hair, making her debut, and French artist Courtin tell their whole story on the first spread: "Double born./ Twice the blessing./ Double kids./ Twice the messing." First shown as infants, the redheaded boy-girl duo graduates to toddlerhood by the third spread. Their mischievous maturity, as well as the structure of a single day, makes possible a host of different adventures-from catching ladybugs to pillow fights. All this activity, however, starts to blur together, and never quite compensates for the pictures' never-varying straight-on perspective, or the repetitive rhyming ("Double rolling/ down the hill./ Double Band-Aids/ when they spill"). Still, Courtin's digital artwork creates considerable visual pull. He works in the bright, comic colors of the classic Tintin books, and renders his stars on a large scale, so that their eager expressions (and, in one case, the boy's bare bottom) draw readers into every spread. Ages 2-5. (May) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Publishers Weekly

PreS-A bouncy text and appealing cartoon artwork provide a lighthearted glimpse at the busy lives of a brother-and-sister duo. The diaper-clad babes are introduced with gentle humor: "Double born./Twice the blessing./Double kids./Twice the messing." As buoyant as the staccato rhymes that describe them, the siblings are soon on the move, learning to walk and talk and encountering a range of experiences that will be familiar territory for most preschoolers. It's twice the fun, as they play with toys, enjoy time spent outdoors, eat a meal, and share a bath. At bedtime, after being tucked in by their smiling parents, the youngsters close their eyes, "Double tired/from all their play./Double dreams/for their next day." The colorful digital illustrations echo the breezy tone of the text. The layout is uncluttered and the action is set against clean pastel and white backgrounds. With orange hair, circle-shaped heads, and sketched-in features, the children resemble one another closely, but are also easily identifiable as individuals. An enjoyable romp.-Joy Fleishhacker, formerly at School Library Journal Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

School Library Journal