Jump! - by Tatsuhide Matsuoka (Board Book)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"First published in Japan in 2000 by Poplar Publishing Co. Ltd, Tokyo"--Colophon.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>A joyful board book to share with young children that will have them jumping with glee.</strong><br /> <br /> A frog jumps. Boing! A kitten jumps. Boi-ing! A dog jumps. Boiyyyyyyoiingg! A grasshopper jumps, a rabbit jumps, then a snail...uhm, maybe not. Mother and chick jump together, a fish jumps out of the water, and last comes a little girl to join the fun... I jump too--BOING!<br /> <br /> This fun interactive book for babies and toddlers will get readers off their feet and bouncing up and down. With funny anatomically correct animal illustrations by award-winning Japanese illustrator Tatsuhide Matsuoka. <br /> <br /> Impossible to read sitting down and designed to read sideways so that the animals jump vertically up the page, this simple story is a perfect gift book to share with young children. <br /> <br /> Tatsuhide Matsuoka is one of Japan's foremost illustrators. He has won the Japan Picture Book Award, the Japan Science Book Award and the Shogakukan Children's Publication Culture Award.<br /> <br /> Over half a million copies sold in Japan. <br /> <br /> Praise for <em>Jump</em><br /> <br /> As a book to inspire movement, this one bounds.--<em>Publishers Weekly, </em>Starred<br /> <br /> It will be a delightful addition to any read aloud story time or emergent reader's library.--<em>Foreword Magazine</em><br /> <br /> Matsuhide is one of Japan's foremost illustrators, and this lovely book is a testimony to excellent art and an original, well-executed idea.--<em>BookTrust</em></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>https: //kissthebookjr.blogspot.com/2019/10/jump-by-tatsuhide-matsuoka-advisable.html<br /> <strong>Jump! By Tatsuhide Matsuoka--ADVISABLE<br /> </strong><strong><br /> </strong><em><strong>Jump! b</strong></em><strong>y Tatsuhide Matsuoka<em>. </em></strong> BOARD BOOK. Gecko Press, 2019. $13. 9781776572311<br /> <strong>BUYING ADVISORY: Pre-K -ADVISABLE</strong><br /> <br /> <strong>AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE</strong><br /> <br /> This book features a variety of animals jumping. It opens horizontally and the reader is presented with an animal such as a frog, a kitten, a fish, a dog, a chicken, a rabbit, and more. When the reader turns the page they see that animal jumping, with a variety of presentations of the word Boing. There are simple illustrations of each animal and a variety for the lettering of the word boing.<br /> <br /> My 1-year-old adored this book and fell over laughing. She has never laughed like this at a book before. I read it out loud to her and she enjoyed seeing each creature jump and hearing the word boing acted out different ways. I had to keep tracking it down to complete this review, as she carried it off! I think this could be used by a preschool teacher as a fun opener for a lesson about jumping or creatures that jump.<br /> <br /> Reviewer: Stephanie MLS & Author<br /> <br /></p>-- "Blog" (10/10/2019 12:00:00 AM)<br><br><p>A cat, a dog, a grasshopper, a fish, a rabbit, a pair of chickens, and a little girl all fly through the air with the greatest of east. (Though the snail has a bit of trouble.) The creatures gaze solemnly at readers, but then each leaps: BOING! Limbs splayed, mouths wide, these animals cut comical figures, the absurdism heightened by Matsuoka's graceful, streamlined design. <strong>Children will be begging for this one again and again.</strong>--<em>School Library Journal</em></p>-- "Journal" (6/27/2019 12:00:00 AM)<br><br><p>A playful and kinetic assemblage of animals.</p> <p>As the title implies, this volume celebrates the act of jumping, as demonstrated by nine different types of animals. A simple and elegant whimsy underlies every aspect of the book, beginning with the practical conceit of reorienting the book by 90 degrees. After each animal is introduced ('A frog jumps, ' for example), an upward flip of the page reveals a picture of it vaulting skyward. Author Matsuoka has won picture-book, science-book, and children's-book awards in his native Japan, and it's easy to see why. The creatures in this book have a cartoonish degree of personality. The big-eyed frog, for example, smiles softly in a lazy squat; in midflight, it has a proportional, fat-bellied, anatomical correctness. The grasshopper is another striking and even startling example, all legs and head in the first picture, then legs, body, and wings fully extended midleap. Apart from lines implying upward movement, there's a beautiful static quality to these snapshots of motion. Each jump is accompanied by a vibrant 'BOING!' (or 'Boi-oi-oi-oi-oing!' as the case may be), which makes for read-aloud fun for caregiver and child alike. Snails, readers learn, are predictably poor jumpers. 'And I jump, too, ' announces the young, Asian-presenting child who executes the final leap, placing humans in context within the animal kingdom.</p> <p><strong>Delightful--pounce on it!</strong>--starred, <em> Kirkus Reviews</em></p>-- "Journal" (8/16/2019 12:00:00 AM)<br><br><p>Board Books to Greet the New Year with Open Arms</p> <p>Caretakers who are looking to start the year off with some positivity and open-mindedness should take a look at these three titles for pre-readers ages 0-3. Each cover features a figure with arms wide open, ready to embrace the new year and the new book enthusiast.</p> <p>. . .</p> <p>Tatsuhide Matsuoka's Jump! (Gecko Press, $12.99) opens up into a vertical, portrait format instead of the standard landscape. This choice allows for all of the animals inside--frog, kitten, grasshopper, rabbit--to jump straight up from the bottom of the composition to the top, with a turn of the page. Each animal has its own individually designed 'boing': the frog goes 'Boing!'; the rabbit goes 'Bo-oing!'; the snail? 'Uhm. Maybe not.' Matsuoka's animals, all shown on plain backgrounds with tons of white space, seem filled with potential energy until... they Jump! <strong>A perfect exciting kickoff to an active 2020.</strong>--<em>Shelf Awareness</em></p>-- "Website" (1/3/2020 12:00:00 AM)<br><br><p>This exuberant board book by Matsuoka still feels fresh and unique 19 years after its Japanese debut. Animals defy gravity--and the volume's modest trim size--by leaping vertically from recto to verso (or, when the book is held sideways, as intended, simply up). The animals are each introduced simply ('A frog jumps, ' reads the initial spread), then the page turns and the action begins. Realistically detailed animals with stoic expressions and flamboyant moves lend a delightfully absurd mood, and ample white space creates an elegant background for the bouncers' energy. Encouraging the reader to create each leap anew, onomatopoeic 'Boing!'s are rendered in different orientations, sizes, and colors to offset the repetition, and one animal amusingly fails to catch any air, though not for lack of effort. Finally, a pigtailed child ('And I jump, too') brings the action back home. <strong>As a book to inspire movement, this one bounds.</strong>--starred, <em>Publishers Weekly </em></p>-- "Journal" (8/12/2019 12:00:00 AM)<br>
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