Hurry Home, Hedgehog! A Bilingual Book of Sounds
(Reviewed with Squirrel Round and Round.) A pair of board books offers rich vocabulary in English and Mandarin Chinese. Squirrel Round and Round describes the changing landscape and activities of its inhabitants as a squirrel travels through the seasons of the year. The squirrel observes blooming camellias, noisy cicadas, ripe persimmons, and more as winter turns to spring then to summer and fall. The first frost and fresh tracks in the snow bring the squirrel back to winter. In Hurry Home Hedgehog, a young hedgehog hurries to make it home before a storm. “Pinecones fall / Plunk, plunk” and “Mice race for their holes / Skitter, skatter” alerting Hedgehog to the coming storm. “Crack! Baroom! / The sky sounds angry” and “Rain falls hard like soybeans / Ping ping, pang pang” before hedgehog makes it safely home to his warm den and his Mama. Attractive illustrations painted in impressionistic colors are simple yet detailed. ©2019 Cooperative Children's Book Center
Illustrated by Belle Yang
CCBC Age Recommendation: Ages 1-3
Age Range:
Babies/Toddlers (birth – 3)
PreK-Early Elementary (Ages 4-7)
Format:
Board book
Subjects:
Animals (Fiction)
Bilingual Books
Mandarin Language
Seasons
Wordplay
Publisher:
Candlewick
Publish Year: 2015
Pages: 24
ISBN: 9780763665982
CCBC Location: Picture Book, Yang