  | Shake the tree! (Minibombo) Author: Vignocchi, Chiara | |
| Price: $19.79 | ||
Summary:
Various animals take turns shaking a tree in search of a tasty meal. It starts with Mouse who wants a nut so she shakes the tree a little to the right, and a little to the left. But it isn't the nut that falls from the tree, it's Fox who thinks that Mouse looks pretty tasty! Soon a warthog and then a bear come along with similar ideas. Little readers will enjoy the just-made-it escapes and the fun shaking-action that readers can do along with this interactive picture book.
| Added Entry - Personal Name: | Chiarinotti, Paolo |
| Illustrator: | Borando, Silvia |
| Accelerated Reader Information: Interest Level: LG Reading Level: 1.60 Points: .5 Quiz: 193492 |
Reviews:
School Library Journal (00/01/18)
The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (+) (00/01/18)
Full Text Reviews:
School Library Journal - 01/01/2018 PreS-Gr 1—This interactive, participatory picture book opens on a vertical spread to show the distance between a hungry mouse and a delicious-looking nut sitting high up in a tree. The mouse and the reader shake the tree left and right in an attempt to jiggle the nut loose from the branches above. Quite unexpectedly to the mouse and to readers, a hungry fox thumps to the ground declaring it will gobble up the mouse. The mouse flees up the tree, while the fox and the reader shake the tree left and right until down drops another predator: a warthog who wants to gobble up the fox. The book continues in this manner until a series of once-hungry, now fleeing animals are up in the tree and an angry bear is shaking the tree's trunk frantically. In the book's final pages, the bear stares hungrily at everything (and everyone) that's fallen from the tree, with an exposed, leafless tree towering above the scene. In a surprise ending, all of the animals are left stunned, and the readers—in certain laughter. Overall, this work feels like a comedic mash-up of the style and themes prevalent in Christie Matheson's Tap the Magic Tree and Joe Kulka's Wolf's Coming!VERDICT With minimal text, open space and bold, eye-catching illustrations, this book will serve best as a read-aloud. Purchase for storytime and guaranteed kid-pleasing giggles.—Brianne Colombo, Fairfield Free Public Library, NJ - Copyright 2018 Publishers Weekly, Library Journal and/or School Library Journal used with permission.
