Lickety-Split

by Robert Heidbreder, Du?an Petri?i? (Illustrator)

Hippity-hop on board for a read-aloud adventure that will make heads spin and tongues trip faster than a speeding snowball. Lickety-Split is a side-splitting smorgasbord of sights and sounds unlike any other book. Tag along as our hero trips the rhyme fantastic and spins a tongue-twisting tall tale for his heroine. He ziggity-zags, clickity-clacks, skippity-skips and zippity-zooms from one adventure to the next. Will he defeat the Viking warrior? Tame the dragon? Knock one out of the park? Will our heroine believe him if he does? This verbal and visual feast is a celebration of language and imagination that will have kids thumpity-thumping for more.

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens, Poetry, Canada

32 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 2007

Reviews

[Kelsey · Rating 3 out of 5]

Age: K - 2

Without a plot, Heidbreder still presents a fun hodge-podge mish-mosh of nonsense onomatopoeias. The reader finds out at the end that the protagonist has been fibbing the whole time. If you want a read to make a ridiculous amount of silly vocal tones, this will perfect.

[Sarah Threlkeld · Rating 2 out of 5]

Rather than relying on a narrative, this book showcase all sorts of fun action sounds like "clickity-clack" and pairs them with illustrations bursting with energy. Good for teaching students about onomatopoeia, but I can't imagine a lot of kids picking this up and reading it.

[Michele · Rating 2 out of 5]

Comic like illustrations show the actions that go with the silly words we sometimes use, like fippity-flop, ziggety-zag, and of course, lickety-split.

[Christine Turner · Rating 4 out of 5]

Full of imagination, the hero ziggity-zags, hippity-hops, skippity-skips and zippity-zooms. www.hcpl.net