by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Picture Book
This is a wonderful rhyming, lyrical ride on a train. Just you and your baby go Jiggle Joggle Jiggle Joggle Jee! If you have a baby who likes to be bounced, you can bounce right along to the rhythm of this delightful ride. If you do storytimes for babies (think Lapsit...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Poetry
For children who delight in dinosaurs, this is a wonderfully fun foray into the world of poetry. The vibrant imagination of Douglas Florian has spread its wings and created magical dinos and magical words. The curious child will search the pictures of dinosaurs for...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Picture Book
Hippo pops up from the page with a case of ‘horrible hiccups.’ How can he make them stop? Friend after friend pops in to offer suggestions. But what might work just fine for a python, an orangutan or a stork, just doesn’t seem to be quite the thing...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Picture Book
So, there once was a cow who went OINK. The other cows make fun of her. She meets a pig who says MOO. The other pigs laugh at her. These two team up to teach each other their language. In the end, these are the only two animals in the barnyard who can speak two...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Picture Book
Sometimes when you try something new, you find out you have more talents than you ever knew. That’s exactly what happens to Octopus when he tickles Oyster and causes her to lose her pearl. Someone needs to get the pearl back for Oyster and Octopus is that...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Picture Book
Most of us have something about ourselves that we wish would go away. It’s something that always seems to cause us a problem. For Nipper the crab that something is his set of great big claws. Oh, why can’t he be like Octopus or Jellyfish or Turtle? They...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Picture Book
Imagine being a shark and trying to make friends with the other ocean creatures. Everyone takes one look at you and swims the other way. But that’s really hard for the shark.
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Picture Book
Take some bright, large illustrations of animals and mix them with flaps that cover their underwear. Then mix that with the hilarity of lifting the flap and discovering the underwear and then add the all important concept of color and you have the whole picture of...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Picture Book
Driver ready? Start your engine!! ‘Rev it up. Brrrroom, Brrrroom!’ Yes, you the preschooler are driving this vehicle. First we go fast and then we lean into the turn. Watch out for the cow. Uh oh. We’re headed for the lake. ‘Lean back, hold...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Picture Book
If it’s a Nancy Tafuri book, you know the pictures are going to be big and vivid and great for storytimes with young children. This is the story of a blue goose and her friends on the farm. When Farmer Gray goes away, the animals decide to give everything a new...
