First Picture Action Rhymes

Usborne First Picture Board Books

by Felicity Brooks

A lively board book designed to guide little children through the words and actions of 11 traditional action-rhymes and songs. Listen to the tunes on the Usborne Quicklinks Website. Practical Pre-School Gold Award Winner.

16 pages, Board Book

First published March 1, 2006

About the author

Felicity Brooks is an Editorial Director and writer at Usborne Publishing. She studied English and Drama at Exeter University and worked as an actor, teacher and lexicographer (someone who compiles dictionaries) before starting work in children’s publishing in the late 1980s.

She has written and edited hundreds of children’s books, including stories and novelty books for pre-schoolers and books about history, geography, languages, science, maths, nature and the arts.

Her books have won the TES Senior Information Book Award, the Aventis Science Books Prize, the SLA Information Book Award, the Sheffield Baby Books Award and Practical Pre-school Gold and Silver Awards.

Reviews

[Pennie · Rating 4 out of 5]

My daughter knows most of these rhymes, and she did all the actions as I read out the words.

[Jennifer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Granddaughter (18m) loves this book right now. At first she just loved looking at all the “dolls” but now she knows all the rhymes and motions. Such fun.