Roar: A Book of Animal Sounds

by Katerina Kerouli, Katerina Kerouli (Illustrator)

Overview

Crocodile lurks in the water, Tiger and Lion prowl through the jungle, Monkey swings through the trees and Snake slithers through the undergrowth in this beautifully illustrated picture book. Lift the giant flaps to reveal those strong, wide jaws, sharp teeth – and a flicky tongue! – and join in as the animals SNAP, HISS, and ROAR.

Part hide-and-seek, part lift the flaps, and part animal noises, this gorgeous jungle adventure will keep both children and their parents coming back time and time again.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781547606412
Publisher:	Bloomsbury USA
Publication date:	06/01/2021
Pages:	24
Sales rank:	851,531
Product dimensions:	10.80(w) x 9.70(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	3 Months to 5 Years

About the Author

Katerina Kerouli is a freelance graphic designer and illustrator based in London, where she has lived since gaining a first-class degree in Graphic Design from Nottingham University in 2016. She has worked with a wide range of clients including Virgin Atlantic, Scoop Magazine and Acrylicize, while exploring her own personal illustration style. Roar is her first picture book.
@katerinakerouli

Editorial Reviews

[T]ailor-made for sharing with big groups. . . . Roaring good fun.” —Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2021-03-02
Outsized animals open wide, inviting younger children to do the same.

“Tiger, tiger, / is that you, / hiding in / the tall bamboo?” Six wild animals pace, glide, or slither through natural settings—seen alternately from the side and then full page and face on in images that gape with the lift of unusually large flaps to expose toothy or fanged maws and a rousing “GRRRR GRRRR” or other prompt. In addition to the tiger, readers meet a crocodile, a generic snake, a monkey, and a lion, each set against a clean background with the occasional whimsical touch (a dragonfly gives the tiger a side-eye; a frog looks nervously at the crocodile). Along with building up to repeated crescendos in her accompanying rhymes (“Such pointy teeth, / your tail so long, / such scaly scales, / and jaws / so strong”) Kerouli uses big, rounded, simplified shapes and bright color contrasts to create both instant recognition and immediate visual drama. Even with a slow reading it’s all over too soon, but the pictures are tailor-made for sharing with big groups, and all the roaring, snapping, and hissing will leave audiences of any size set for follow-up action rhymes, a round of “Old MacDonald Had a Farm,” or a high-volume thematic cousin like Brian McLachlan’s convention-busting What Noise Do I Make? (2016). Alas, the flaps are flimsy enough that they will not likely withstand direct use by children.

Roaring good fun. (Novelty/picture book. 2-5)

Kirkus Reviews