Duck! Rabbit! by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Tom Lichtenheld
Okay folks. Surely you’ve seen this book around haven’t you? Duck! Rabbit! by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Tom Lichtenheld. I’d seen the cover before but had never taken the time to pick it up and so I was a tad excited when it was a book read by our fabulous librarians at our story time that I go to every week.
Duck! Rabbit! is the perfect read-a-loud book with its two narrators. In fact, it was read very energetically by two librarians and it was well received by the kids. When I got my hands on my own library copy, my husband and I both read it out loud together to the kids. A fun book to read either on its own or in a group.
In Duck! Rabbit! the off page narrators debate whether or not the animal in question is a duck or a rabbit. Where one sees ears, another sees a bill. Where one hears rabbit sounds another hears duck sounds. The illustrations vary little which I think is fantastic.
But really, no need for me to ramble on about it. The video says it all:
A great book for kids to think about shapes in new ways.
Links of interest: Amy Krouse Rosenthal website, Tom Lichtenheld website, more book blogger reviews. Duck! Rabbit! is a fiction picture book Cybil’s nominee for which I’m a panelist.
Genre: Fiction Picture Book, approx age 4-8.
Publisher: Chronicle Books. March 11, 2009.
Hardcover, 40 pages. ISBN 0811868656
Duck! Rabbit! is available from your favorite independent bookstore, Powell’s, and Amazon.
Category: Book Reviews, Fiction, Picture & Board Books
Tags: A-D Title, book trailer, Cybils picture book nomination, I-L Author, published 2009, Q-T Author, videos
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Ha ha ha, I just watched the trailer – that was really adorable! Now I want to go see other illusions of that type beside My Wife and Mother-in-Law.
on November 14th, 2009 at 3:31 amthat looks like so much fun!
on November 14th, 2009 at 8:45 amYet another picture book that makes me go: “Why didn’t I think of that!” Thanks – it looks very cute.
on November 14th, 2009 at 3:50 pmLooks really cute- what a clever idea. Wonder if my kid would like it; I’ll see if our library has it.
on November 14th, 2009 at 11:29 pmMy kids loved this book! We watched the video before checking the book out from the library and they were so psyched to get the book.
on November 15th, 2009 at 9:50 pm[...] Duck! Rabbit! by Amy Krouse Rosenthal [MY REVIEW] [...]
on November 16th, 2009 at 2:51 amI bought this book back in May and I can’t wait until Daniel’s old enough to enjoy it.
on November 16th, 2009 at 10:49 am