Grumble-Rumble! by Sioban Dodds, Siobhan Dodds

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Little Roo doesn't want her breakfast. She'd much rather go out to play. Grumble-rumble! says her hungry tummy. "There's a monster following me!" Little Roo tells her friends. But they're all too busy eating their breakfast...
Grumble-Rumble! has special sturdy pages that are easy for small hands to turn and strong enough to play with.

Children's Literature

Anxious to go outside and play, Little Roo decides to skip her breakfast of kangaflakes and toast-with-honey in favor of heading out to the backyard. When she starts bouncing her new ball, she hears a great, big grumble-rumble. Frightened by the loud noise, she bounces off to tell her friend Crocodile about it. However, Crocodile is too busy eating her grapes to care about the alleged monster that is following Little Roo, so the kangaroo decides to visit another friend. Throughout her journey she encounters various animals, including a snake, an elephant, a lion and a monkey—all of whom ignore her because they are too busy eating their own breakfast snacks. After not getting anyone's attention and hearing the loudest growl of all, Little Roo quickly bounces home, where she explains the situation to her mother, who gently tells her that the noise is simply her empty, growling stomach. Toddlers will enjoy this charming picture book, which contains repetitive text, eye-catching artwork and sturdy pages for little fingers. In fact, it's a great resource for teaching young children about the importance of eating breakfast and starting their day off on the right foot. 2000, Dorling Kindersley, $5.95. Ages 2 to 5. Reviewer: Debra Briatico

School Library Journal

PreS-These books help fill a need for simple, short, and graphically interesting stories for children not yet ready for full-length stories. The artwork is large, colorful, and well matched to the texts. One Smiling Sister, told in rhyme, introduces the numbers 1 to 10 through events and people in a preschooler's typical day at home and in school. Grumble-Rumble! follows a young kangaroo that skips breakfast to go out to play and is then frightened by what she thinks is a monster, only to learn that it is her empty stomach grumbling. In Ned's Rainbow, a little boy is sad when he can't touch the rainbow, so his clever mother paints one on his wall. Walsh's colorful rainbows on every page make the book lovely to look at, and the text is simple and realistic. Appealing characters and familiar settings and situations will make these titles popular with the preschool set.-JoAnn Jonas, Carlsbad City Library, San Diego, CA Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.

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