Tickle Time!

by Sandra Boynton

Overview

Sometimes kids just need a good tickle. Maybe your child is grumpy, or frustrated, or looking for a little extra attention. Well, we have the cure. Reach for Tickle Time!—and like magic, everyone’s bright and sunny and giggling again.

Tickle Time! is the twelfth in Boynton’s astoundingly successful Boynton on Board series. Based on the wildly popular song from Boynton’s wildly popular Rhinoceros Tap CD, Tickle Time! is pure irrepressible Boynton, lively in tempo, nimble in rhyme, and filled with irresistible fuzzy cats that cavort from page to page. Plus a few birds, who aren’t the cavorting type. Here’s a book to turn to again and again, because it’s guaranteed to elicit giggles:

If you’re feeling blue and you don’t know what to do there is nothing like a TICKLE TIME to make you feel like new.

Whether you tickle high or tickle low, tickle fast or tickle slow, it’s the gitchy-gitchy-goo that makes everything worthwhile.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761168836
Publisher:	Workman Publishing Company
Publication date:	03/13/2012
Series:	Boynton on Board Series
Pages:	24
Product dimensions:	5.58(w) x 6.08(h) x 0.66(d)
Age Range:	3 Months to 2 Years

About the Author

Sandra Boynton has been a bestselling author for 25 years. She's written the New York Times bestseller Chocolate: The Consuming Passion, the national (and New York Times) bestselling musical for the whole family, Philadelphia Chickens, the phenomenally successful Boynton on Board series (led by Barnyard Dance!), and the one-of-a-kind Grunt, the sublime collection of Pigoroian chant. All told, her kids books have over 30 million copies in print, a number that will already be out-of-date when you read this. She lives with her family in western Connecticut.

Hometown:

"Somewhere in rural Connecticut"

Date of Birth:

April 3, 1953

Place of Birth:

Orange, New Jersey

Education:

B.A., Yale University, 1974; attended University of California--Berkeley Drama School and Yale Drama School

Editorial Reviews

A favorite baby-and-toddler activity receives an upbeat celebration that will get those fingers going. Watch out! The gang of frazzled felines that populate this outing are truly the cat's meow. Based on Boynton's song of the same title, the text is reproduced in a colored, patterned font that amps the energy right up. A forlorn little kitty, paws clasped in front of his body, appears anxious (though slightly intrigued) when a trio of toms encourages him to join in the fun. "Gitchy-gitchy / Goo Gotta / Ready, Set, Go!" It doesn't take long before the cautious cat jumps in on this chorus line with dramatic leaps and fluttering fingers. A little birdie acts as a square-dance caller, enunciating each beat ("Goo bop. / Gitchy-goo bop"). The shaggy, large-nosed felines are tremendously expressive in their synchronized movements and maintain a rollicking pace. "We can tickle high. / We can tickle low. / We can tickle QUICKQUICKQUICK / as fast as we can go!" (Here, the page is filled with iterations of "gitchy gitchy gitchy" in different colors.) At the end, the gang sprawls on the floor, exhausted, after a truly monumental tickle-fest. Sure to prompt little fingers into joyful action. (Board book. 1-3)

Kirkus Reviews

With its pitter-patter text…the book practically begs to be sung or at least rapped aloud.
—The New York Times

Pamela Paul