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Doing the Animal Bop - J. Ormerod

 

Description: ISBN 0192791400 / Genre: Junior Books / Author: J. Ormerod, Lindsey Gardiner / Paperback / 32 Pages / Book is published 2005-01-06 by ... more
Doing the Animal Bop - J. Ormerod ... Oxford University Press

Newest Review: ... song, and alliteration in the 'flim-flam flutter of the ostrich flounce' or the monkeys' 'jive and jiggle'. The hissing of ... more

 ... the snake is exaggerated in the line 'you can ssssssing this ssssssong'. The chickens peck and cluck whilst the rhinos roar and rage. On the final pages the line 'so let's end up with a great big mooo!' (because the cow can only chew) becomes so familiar that children love to join in. There is after that one more double-page illustration of the animals in silhouette dancing off into the night under the pink stars in the dark blue sky. It's as though they are off to party all night. Both rhyme and rhythm come through ...more

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Premium Review Doing the Animal Bop - J. Ormerod: Why don't you do the animal thing? (573 words)
by frangliz - written on 12.07.08 (Very useful, 164 readings)
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Picture books often have a simple story line with a strong rhythm and plenty rhyming words: Doing the Animal Bop by J. Ormerod and Lindsey Gardiner begins 'If you like to dance and you sometimes sing, Why don't you do the animal thing?' It is hard for children to resist the urge when this is read aloud to get up and try to move in the same way as each animal that appears in these pages, jiggling and jiving, waddling like a duck or stomping like a rhino. This is not really a story at all, more of a poem that introduces a series of animals, one on each double page, concentrating on the way they move and the sounds they make. As well as rhyme, there is ...

 
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