Comments on: Hug! http://weheartbooks.com/2008/03/14/hug/ Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:33:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: weheartbooks.com » Duck in the Truck http://weheartbooks.com/2008/03/14/hug/#comment-271 weheartbooks.com » Duck in the Truck Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:03:18 +0000 http://weheartbooks.com/2008/03/14/hug/#comment-271 [...] in his pyjamas… Duck in the Truck comes from the very talented Jez Alborough, author of our previously reviewed, Hug!. Duck’s truck gets stuck in the muck, so Frog, Sheep and Goat all lend a hand. With the [...] [...] in his pyjamas… Duck in the Truck comes from the very talented Jez Alborough, author of our previously reviewed, Hug!. Duck’s truck gets stuck in the muck, so Frog, Sheep and Goat all lend a hand. With the [...]

]]> By: Anne-Laure http://weheartbooks.com/2008/03/14/hug/#comment-68 Anne-Laure Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:22:33 +0000 http://weheartbooks.com/2008/03/14/hug/#comment-68 Hi, I haven't read this one but I'll certainly hunt it down! Right now we (my 2 1/2 year old twins and I) are reading "Duck in the Truck" where his famous duck's truck gets stuck in the muck... My boys love it because: - it's about a truck and anything with wheels is fascinating at that age - the pictures are large so they can see all the details easily and follow the story - the story rhymes and I love the musicality of the text. I'm sure they love it too. - it ends well with a little bit of irony. Another favorite book is "I don't want to go to bed!" by Julie Sykes and Tim Warnes (extremely useful at the moment!) Little Tiger doesn't want to go to bed and his Mummy is tired of putting up a fight about it. So she lets him go in the jungle at bedtime. He visits all his friends (Little Elephant, Little Monkey...) but all of them are ready to go to bed and don't want to go out and play. Eventually he gets lost and a nice animal takes him home... This book is about experiencing freedom and wanting to do everything by yourself without listening to the ones who care for you... A great love story and bedtime story! Hi,

I haven’t read this one but I’ll certainly hunt it down! Right now we (my 2 1/2 year old twins and I) are reading “Duck in the Truck” where his famous duck’s truck gets stuck in the muck… My boys love it because:
- it’s about a truck and anything with wheels is fascinating at that age
- the pictures are large so they can see all the details easily and follow the story
- the story rhymes and I love the musicality of the text. I’m sure they love it too.
- it ends well with a little bit of irony.

Another favorite book is “I don’t want to go to bed!” by Julie Sykes and Tim Warnes (extremely useful at the moment!) Little Tiger doesn’t want to go to bed and his Mummy is tired of putting up a fight about it. So she lets him go in the jungle at bedtime. He visits all his friends (Little Elephant, Little Monkey…) but all of them are ready to go to bed and don’t want to go out and play. Eventually he gets lost and a nice animal takes him home… This book is about experiencing freedom and wanting to do everything by yourself without listening to the ones who care for you… A great love story and bedtime story!

]]> By: Brad http://weheartbooks.com/2008/03/14/hug/#comment-44 Brad Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:38:30 +0000 http://weheartbooks.com/2008/03/14/hug/#comment-44 Excellent review! Whist the book utilises but a single word 'Hug' it explores a plethora of human emotions as identified by Weheartbooks. Through illustration and cleaver sequencing of events we are taken on a roller coaster rider from exploration of an unknown animal world, the 'jungle', to meeting its occupants, including a very kind adult elephant. The illustrations depict a very primal sense of affection, several Mother/Father with child interspersed with adult to adult. Loneliness develops during Bobo's journey through the wilderness bringing him to the brink of despair without contact from his loved ones until the climax of relief when Bobo's kin appears. From here the jungle world rejoices in love but Bobo does not forget the kindness that was afforded him by the adult elephant, a very relevant and unveiled learning experience. Excellent review!
Whist the book utilises but a single word ‘Hug’ it explores a plethora of human emotions as identified by Weheartbooks. Through illustration and cleaver sequencing of events we are taken on a roller coaster rider from exploration of an unknown animal world, the ‘jungle’, to meeting its occupants, including a very kind adult elephant. The illustrations depict a very primal sense of affection, several Mother/Father with child interspersed with adult to adult. Loneliness develops during Bobo’s journey through the wilderness bringing him to the brink of despair without contact from his loved ones until the climax of relief when Bobo’s kin appears. From here the jungle world rejoices in love but Bobo does not forget the kindness that was afforded him by the adult elephant, a very relevant and unveiled learning experience.

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