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mother, baby & child April 2011 The Loud Book! In Elmo’s
Easter Parade
Deborah Underwood
(Author) Naomi Kleinberg
Renata Liwska (Illustrator) (Author)
Christopher
BANG! CRACKLE! BOO! Moroney
Learn the different kinds of (Illustrator)
‘loud’ with your little furry
friends. The Loud Book! is Here comes
made to accompany the everyone’s favourite
earlier released The Quite Sesame Street
Book. It is a nice illustrative characters Big Bird,
material for early readers. Cookie Monster,
Filled with humorous Ernie, Bert and… Elmo! The story teaches children
definitions of noise, the the value of happily working together. In the book,
cute anecdotes give the Elmo had hoped to own a bonnet and had been
otherwise annoying sound prodded to make one instead. Friends abound, he
pollution a ticklish feel gladly tried what works for him and so do his friends.
to it. The book has the The characters exhibit thoughtfulness, enthusiasm
classic old designs of our and creativity. With its comic-type rendition in its
childhood, another way to page-full illustrations, it is a wonderful Easter gift
connect with your children best enjoyed the whole year round.
while reading it together.
Dog Loves Books

Louise Yates (Author)

Another best seller for Amazon.com
in 2010, Louise Yates’ picture book
encourages readers to start young –
very young. It is story of a dog who
is so engrossed with his hobby that
he opened a bookstore himself! Sad
though, because it was only to find
out that none of his pooch friends
share the same interest. During
that time waiting, he found several
characters in the books he has been
reading coming to life. And isn’t that what really happens when we get
so enmeshed with our own books? The artwork is terrifically portrayed
to compliment the tail’s tale.

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