Book Review: Do You Know Which Ones Will Grow?

Book #19

Book Image:

Bibliographic Citation:

Do You Know Which Ones Will Grow?

By Susan Shea. Illus. by Tom Slaughter.

2011.28p. Blue Apple Books, $16.99. (9781609050627)

Age Group:

Toddler - Kindergarten

Genre:

Fiction

Awards:

ALSC 2012 Notable Children’s Book

Topics/Issues:

Concept, Growth, Change

ELS promoted:

Print motivation, phonological awareness, narrative skills, vocabulary

Format:

Hardcover.

Author/Illustrator sites:

http://www.blueapplebooks.com/books/31 / http://www.blueapplebooks.com/authors_and_illustrators/tom-slaughter

Categorization Tags:

E Shea

Annotation:

The narrator poses rhyming questions about what grows and what does not using flaps to cover parts of items.

Reactions/Observations:

The book begins with, “A duckling grows into a duck. Will a car grow into a truck?”. Using rhyme, this book discusses the concept of change. Each rhyming question asks the audience which one will grow and which will stay the same.  On each double page spread, there is a pair of items being compared. The right side has a flap hiding the answer to the question.

Do You Know Which One Will Grow? is an interactive lift flap book about the concept of things changing shape or size over times (and which things don’t).  Originally when I thought “concept book”, I went straight for the alphabet and numbers book.  All my first choices were checked out and a coworker suggested this one.  The illustrations are made up of simple forms and bold colors, allowing for easy identification and vocabulary building. It’s fantastic and a great read in story time.  The book is great practice for talking about a story. Children enjoy answering the silly questions and predicting what will happen next.  This book would be especially useful for promoting phonological awareness, vocabulary, and narrative skills as well as introducing science concepts like the difference between living and nonliving things. Booklist recommends this book for Preschool to Grade 2, but after using it in storytime. I think it would be ideal for toddler to kindergarten.