Felicia Bond is both writer and illustrator of Tumble Bumble, The
Day It Rained Hearts, the Poinsettia books, and many others. She
painted the art for numerous other award-winning books, including
those in the much loved If You Give . . . series and the
contemporary classic Big Red Barn. She lived for many years in New
York and currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Felicia Bond is both writer and illustrator of Tumble Bumble, The
Day It Rained Hearts, the Poinsettia books, and many others. She
painted the art for numerous other award-winning books, including
those in the much loved If You Give . . . series and the
contemporary classic Big Red Barn. She lived for many years in New
York and currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
"TUMBLE BUMBLE exudes a pure sweetness."-- The New York Times
One by one, 10 friendly characters‘from a pig to a toad to a mouse‘fall in step with one another in this lively sequential rhyme. The introductions start with "a tiny bug" (an ant, actually) who "went for a walk./ He met a cat and stopped to talk." Bug and cat soon encounter a green crocodile, this threesome meets a bee, and so on. Bond, illustrator of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, effectively plans her story's progression. Readers can easily name and number the members of the group, particularly when seven of them sneak into a boy's house ("tippy-toeing on fourteen feet"), fix themselves a snack and peek around the corner of a door so that just their 14 eyes are visible. Bond then steers the animals toward a midday nap; the book serves double duty as counting game and bedtime story. Although the author/artist doesn't break new ground with her cheery watercolor palette and prankishly smiling characters, she knows the needs of her audience‘and meets them handsomely. A childlike charmer. Ages 3-up. (Oct.)
"TUMBLE BUMBLE exudes a pure sweetness."
-- The New York Times
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