Starting with a pair of yellow mittens, a purple hippo prepares to bundle up to go outside and play in the snow. Using humor and visual clues, primary and secondary colors are identified for the toddler set. The third entry in a new board book series by artist Jennifer Sattler (Dirty Birdies and Jungle Gym).
Jennifer Sattler is the author and illustrator of several picture books including Sylvie, Chick 'n' Pug, Pig Kahuna, Chick 'n' Pug Meet the Dude, Uh-oh, Dodo!, and her latest, Pig Kahuna Pirates. After several years of teaching college students, she realized that her "inner goofball" needed to come out. Once she started making books for children, she was hooked. "I really am a 5-year old at heart," she says. "These are my people!"
The ending of this book would probably be a LOT cuter if we weren't currently gearing up for a week of -50F wind chills.
Just saying.
(However, I did really like the repetition of "where is my/here is my" and the colors. Littles will have lots of fun pointing to where they'd put a hat, mittens, etc. And the colors are always helpful.)
This is a fun little board book and we are starting to add more from this author to our shelves. The illustrations are cute and it was fun for my daughter to use the pictures to determine what was happening before I read the words.
This is a very cute book, with a cute little hippo! It's nice that the book incorporates both learning colors and learning to count, while aesthetically pleasing. Both my little boys (3.5 and 2 years old) enjoyed reading this book.
Introducing color concepts, letters and sharing, delightful hippo with expressive eyes searches the house for her warm winter accessories before playing outside in the snow.