Tippintown: A Guided Tour

by Calef Brown

Come along to Tippintown—it’s time to take the tour! See the undersea graduation! Sing along with the Tippinfeather Choir! Sample several local dishes! (A buffet lunch is provided—be sure to try the macaroni yogurt.) So many sights! Where is the best place for a game of hide-and-shriek? Which variety of tree has the most variety of fruit? Who stands sixteen feet tall in Tippin Square?
Would you like to discover the answers to these riddles and more? Experience Tippintown with Calef Brown, your faithful guide along the way.

Genres: Picture Books, Poetry, Childrens, Fiction

32 pages, Hardcover

First published April 24, 2003

Reviews

[Ham · Rating 1 out of 5]

The writing or the illustrations:
I'm not sure which is a better indication of the author's drug problem.

[FrankieReads · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hello. I am 1. I really like this book. I have read it 5 times today. My favorite part is the very end when they go to the shop and there are so many coffee cups! Hilarious. One star off because I don't particularly enjoy the page with all the birds on it.

[Erin]

Calef Brown is another author I love. His style, for both poetry and illustrations, is very distinctive. His drawings are brightly colored and a bit surreal - elephants for heads and such; and his poetry is wry and full of amusing juxtoposition and always makes me laugh. This book reminds me of a Beatles song, perhaps Mr. Kite... in it an elephant headed tour guide shows us around his town and all of the fun and funny things people do there.

[Ariel Cummins · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very silly and surreal picture book that takes you on a tour of a very bizarre town. Filled with fun poetry and crazy juxtapositions, this is a very enjoyable book.

The art is bright and silly enough to match the off-kilter poem. I think kids will enjoy spotting all the wacky things that are hidden throughout the double-page spreads.

Would be a fun storytime book, because the rhyming text just slips off the tongue.

[Matt · Rating 5 out of 5]

While his previous books were poem-based, this one is setup as a tour of an imaginary town. Still an offbeat and absurd delight in all the best ways possible! I read books like this to my daughter to get her to realize life is not a square box: dream big, dream weird.

[Iamaby En · Rating 3 out of 5]

-guided tour by an elephant-nosed fellow of a wacky, imaginary place
-rhyming text, no repetition
-more for young kids already in school rather than toddlers or preschoolers
-illustrations are really nice, but the colour palette was a little dull and might not attract kids to it right away

[Jennifer · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was cute!!! Perfect book for kindergarten/first grade children to try to read!!!

[Kelly · Rating 5 out of 5]

Quickly becoming one of my favorite children's authors! Creative story. Fun to read.