Roar!

by Margaret Mayo, Alex Ayliffe (Illustrator)

Bold lions love roar, roar, roaring, while cubs play racing and chasing ...Young children will love meeting all the wild and wonderful animals in this fun-packed picture-book safari, with galloping zebras, prowling tigers, water-squirting elephants, jumping kangaroos and more!

Genres: Picture Books, Animals, Childrens, Storytime, Juvenile

24 pages, Hardcover

First published September 7, 2006

About the author

There is more than one author with this name

For the Romance novelist see: Margaret Mayo

Margaret Mary Cumming was born 10 May 1935 in London, England, the daughter of William John and Anna (Macleod) Cumming. On 28 July 1958, she married Peter Robin Mayo, a university lectured, and they had three children: Roderick, Katrina and Andrew.

Margaret Mayo was a children's literature and folktales writer. A former teacher, she uses her wide-ranging experience with children in her writing. She lives in Brighton.

Reviews

[Oshaun]

This book is about Safari Animals, investigating and exploring how the animals move, what they sound like and where they live in the safari. This book is and illustrated by Margaret Mayo & Alex Ayliffe. This book can be used by children to understand where the animals live in this environment. In science, we can explore how they move, what they sound like and adaptation. This supports children’s communication and language as children are able to say and express their view on the animals as well as sharing what sounds the animals make. Children’s Personal, Social and emotional development and their physical development can be expanded and explored as children may express that they don’t like an animal such as a lion because they are scary but when role-playing, acting like the lion they may enjoy this. Children can wear headbands or masks which they have created (Expressive Arts and Design) to make them look and act out as the animals.

[Hannah Butler · Rating 4 out of 5]

A quick and fun look at some exotic animals and the sounds they might make!

The rhythmic flow of this book makes it interesting to early years children, whilst also giving some fun and engaging information that could be used for further enforcement animals, their sounds, their homes etc. I really like the artwork in these books, very bright and interesting for the children to look at.

[Hope · Rating 3 out of 5]

A cute book, with alliteration and many animals.

[Kerry Simpson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Foundation through to year 4 seem to enjoy this colourful book, the rhythm of the words and the actions they can do to imitate the animals within.

[Haaley · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute story about animals.

[Peacegal · Rating 3 out of 5]

Super bright, chunky illustrations of a variety of wild animals catch the eye. Lots of sounds and movements suggested by the text should make this a read-aloud favorite.

[Louise · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love the pictures!!

[Skylar Lesser · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book introduces students to animal sounds. It also rhymes, so it is a good book to introduce students to poetry and figurative language.
Lexile: 650L
DRA: N/A
Traits: Sentence Fluency, Word Choice

[Xochitl Rocha · Rating 5 out of 5]

Huge hit - great for an animal theme storytime.

[Lindsey Mineweaser · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book consists of many different kinds of animals. There is one animal per page and the book gives a little detail about each one. This book allows the reader to become familiar with the animals and discover what they are like and what they do. At the end of the book, there is a page that shows all of the animals sleeping in their different habitats. There is also a closer up picture of all of the animals together.

This book does a wonderful job of integrating the text with the illustrations. For example, on the page with the lions, the text is shown in the blue sky section of the page. In addition, the text is on the water that is being blown out of the elephant’s nose. On the page with the zebras, the zebras appear to be running over the text because the text is on the ground under them. This makes the text interesting to read because the text is always located in unique places.

There is repetition on every page of this book. For example, the text says, “swing, swing, swinging” on the page with the monkeys. In addition, the text says, “climb, climb, climbing” on the leopards page. The pandas are “munch, munch, munching” and the kangaroos are “jump, jump, jumping”. This is repeated for every animal that is in the book. The author could have done this to reinforce her point about what each animal does. This repetition also helps the story flow together.

This book also has very strong word choice. There is alliteration and rhyme in this book. Some alliteration includes when the author writes, “Squishy- squashy! Squishy- squashy! Squelching”. This alliteration makes the text enjoyable to read especially out loud or to others. In addition to the alliteration, there is rhyme in this story. The rhyme occurs when the author writes, “racing, chasing” or, “spunky monkeys”. The rhyme in this book is entertaining and flows together nicely.

[Kelly · Rating 3 out of 5]

Roar couples illustrations of brightly-colored wild animals in their habitats with free form sentences that complements the activity on the page. The poetic text uses inventive gerunds to introduce facts about the animals and their behavior (“Tall giraffes love stretch, stretch, stretching, long necks going up…up…reaching, black tongues flicking, lips leaf picking, so stretch tall giraffes, stretch!”), giving pre-schoolers a glimpse of elephants wallowing, tigers prowling, and pandas munching, among others. The entire reading is upbeat, consistently phrased, and has a great story time beat, which along with the big, bold illustrations, makes this a winning read-aloud. One potentially confusing aspect of this book is that Mayo initially presents animals found on the African continent, and then branches out to Australia, Asia and North America with her final three animals. She then incorporates all of the animals on the closing spread, which may give the impression that these animals co-habitate (they don’t).

[Crystal Galliford · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is very good. The illustrations are very eye catching and aesthetically pleasing to young children. The poetic nature of the books gives great information to children that is catchy and easy to understand. It also works great to teach children about animals and what sounds they make. I read this with my preschoolers and they loved it. They ask me to read it daily now. Great book!

[Rachel · Rating 5 out of 5]

My two year old loves this book. We don't really read the actual text, but we talk about the what the animals are doing, and he loves to count the animals. Fun illustrations for your little animal-lover.

[Emma · Rating 2 out of 5]

I don't know, the kid likes it (25 months) but I reckon it's a stretch. Not least because at the end there are kangaroos hopping about on the plains with the lions, hippos and pandas. Humph. Not the best in this series.

[The Library Lady · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun pictures, lots of opportunity for the kids to join in as lions "roar" pandas "munch" and leopards "climb" and much more. This one should be a blast at story hour!

[Karl · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great fun, with lots of yelling.

[Laura · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is poetry for youngsters and I love it.

[LoriAnn Kocialski]

CUTE READ!

[Morbus Iff · Rating 3 out of 5]

One of the earliest books we ever read you. Jaunts to YouTube to see reality.

[Laura Z · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love the fun, bright illustrations!

[Jennifer Barczak · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read it for Toddler Time-a bit hard to read for a group-they like it but didn't love it.

[Sierra Watts]

This is a good book to use when teaching children about animals and they traits.

[Erin · Rating 4 out of 5]

This would be a fun one to have the kids act out. Definitely keeping in mind for a future storytime.

[Cindy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good for 2s and 3s.

[Jason Penckofer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great, fun and colorful illustrations, and terrific, read-aloud fun text. This book just roars