Diane Redfield MassieRezensionen

I agree with the other review, this is a multilayered book.

It is good to take care of your home.

Your friends can love you in your flawed state.

Mouse and Mole team up together to build a boat to enter a race across the pond. They have stiff competition from Rat and Heron. But with the help of friends, they finally construct a boat - or rather, a raft . . .

Oh how I would love to have the kids be the baby bird in the story while I did the dialogue of all the other animals!

Genre
Bedtime stories
Picture books for children
Tone
Funny
Noisy
Illustration
Detailed
Subject
Baby birds
Birds
Sleep
Zoo animals

With illustrations from the brilliant Steven Kellogg and type that runs from page in a buffet of bright, bold fonts, this book is as much fun to look at as it is to read. Baby beebee bird is new to the zoo and doesn't seem to understand nighttime is for sleeping, not for singing at the top of your little bird-lungs. Will the bear and the lion and the giraffe and all the rest of the zoo animals ever get any sleep? A perfect nighttime story.½

Unfortunately, this book portrays virtually all the animals as gendered male -- unrealistic and contributing to the general misapprehension of children that animals are male unless they're visibly with a baby. So I can't recommend this book unless you're able to re-gender on the fly -- referring to some of the animals as "she" instead of "he" to make it more balanced and realistic. But then you can't show your child the letters as you're reading. Disappointing that the author made such a basic mistake, in what would otherwise be a fun zoo animal book.½

This book is a great story for emergent readers. I love this book because it has repetitive phrases that a child can easily pick up on and read along with an adult. The story is about a baby bird who sings all through the night, keeping all the other animals in the zoo up all night. The bird sings beebeebobbibobbi over and over throughout the night because he sleeps all day long.

I didn't like the story, but I think this story would give kids the message that when someone imitates you, it is best if you just ignore them and carry on with your day. The book confirms that this method works, since all the animals are able to get along in the end.

What I enjoyed most about this book is that there are multiple layers that could be dissected when read. There is the theme of needed to clean up and keep yourself and your surrounding clean; loving your friends for who they are despite differences; helping out others in an appropriate and caring way; how to be a good neighbor, and problem solving. The illustrations in the book are original and flow nicely with the story. There are many details in each picture that can add more to the story than the words. Even though there are multiple ideas going on in this picture book, I believe the main idea is that sometimes friends need help, but to help them in a loving way.

In this story, a group of zoo animals are kept up all night by a singing bird. They work together to solve their problem. This book could be used to teach a lesson about being ready to calm down your body and rest at bedtime.½

This book is old but it is still a good story. I found it a little odd that the illustrations alternated between colour and black-and-white, but my kids didn't seem to mind. They enjoyed locating Chameleon in the first few pictures and it's a shame that theme didn't carry all the way through. This isn't a book I would want to read over and over, but it entertaining enough the first time around.

This delightful rhyming storybook follows young John the mouse, who discovers that Zigger Beans are an excellent cure when feeling mean. But when Mother becomes cross with him for skating on the table, and John feeds her a Zigger Bean, she goes a-ziggering off without preparing his supper! What can he do, but follow her into the night...?

Recommended during a recent discussion of the "best" picture-books in which I was involved, Zigger Beans seems to be one of those charming titles that have somehow sunk into an undeserved obscurity. Out-of-print, and quite difficult to find, I might never have encountered it, had a friend not mentioned it. With its sing-song narrative - John ran out. / "The sky is dark!" / He ran across the gloomy park. / The village lights / shone through the trees. / "I wish," said John, "I had some cheese" - and endearing illustrations, it is an immensely appealing book, and would make an ideal selection for reading aloud. I have it on good authority that the artwork is botanically accurate, but even if it were not, the charming mice would still entertain! I can only hope that some enterprising children's book editor will reprint this little gem!

Love this funny little book from my childhood, with the rhythmic zigger zigger zigger repetitions. The illustrations are lovely, and the flowers among which John the mouse cavorts are recognizably real meadow flowers - day lilies and alliums and ladys mantle etc, with cabbage moths flitting about above them.

This hillarious book is about zoo animals who uses their wits to get a singing beebee bird to go to sleep at night. I could use this book to show that daytime is for play and nighttime is for sleeping.

First things first, this book is a bit wordy as a readaloud.

It *is* a funny book, though.

Poor Briar Rose. A goose with dreams. Dreams of doing better than being stuck in a world of clucking chickens. Dreams of - what's this? Stories? About geese laying golden eggs? *holds up flashlight* IDEA!

Yes, her bright idea was to paint eggs golden. And it worked... maybe a little too well. She got kidnapped. She almost got made into stew! Luckily, the day is saved when the farmers rescue her from the robbers... and the paint washes off her "eggs". Nice moral, neatly wrapped up ending, what more can you ask for?

Unfortunately, this book portrays virtually all the animals as gendered male -- unrealistic and contributing to the general misapprehension of children that animals are male unless they're visibly with a baby. So I can't recommend this book unless you're able to re-gender on the fly -- referring to some of the animals as "she" instead of "he" to make it more balanced and realistic. But then you can't show your child the letters as you're reading. Disappointing that the author made such a basic mistake, in what would otherwise be a fun zoo animal book.½

This book is about zoo animals and a new beebee bird comes to live at the zoo. All of the animals sleep at night but the little bird sleeps during the day. The little bird keeps the animals up all night, so to get back at the bird the animals keep him up all day when he is trying to sleep. At the end of the book the bird sleeps during the night like the other animals and sings during the day.

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This book was very cute. It was about animals at the zoo who were unable to sleep at night because of the new Bee Bee Bird. The bird slept all day and then sang all night so the animals got no sleep. The next day while the brid was sleeping, the other animals thought of a plan. They would sing the Bee Bee Bird song all day and keep the bird up like it kept them up. Their plan worked and that night all the animals were so tired that they all went to sleep.

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Brave Brush-Tail Possum is a cute story about a little possum that is scared that he will be eaten by the big Goanna Lizard. The possom creates a dummy out of banana leaves so that the Goanna Lizard will eat the dummy instead of him. This is a sweet story about a possom who is very brave. This story is the most appropriate for advanced readers.

At the zoo, all the animals are sleeping soundly until a teeny tiny baby beebee bird beings to sing! He sings the whole night through! The next day, all the zoo animals are exhausted after being kept awake by the baby beebee bird's song. But, what they find is while they are all trying to stay awake, the baby beebee bird is fast asleep! So, they devise a plan to keep the baby beebee bird awake all do so he will sleep at night and let all the zoo animals have some peace and quiet. Their plan works and the baby beebee bird learns that nighttime is for sleeping... not singing!

About a baby bird going to sleep without all the noise of the woods

This book is good for children in kindergarten. After the beebee bird makes noise while the others sleep, they do the same to him. Then the bird realizes it's not nice to make noise at night. Just a fun book for children to read.

Age appropriatness: primary
This book is a good example of fantasy because it is a story about zoo animals who did not get any sleep because of a new bird so they devise a plan to keep the bird up all day.
The media in this book is pencil

This book is a good example of fantasy because the reader believes that all the animals can talk to one another and problem solve together to get the bird quiet but in reality animals do not talk to one another like that. Age appropriate: primary. Media: water colors.

This book is a fair example of fantasy. It takes place in the zoo which is a realistic location, but then it has main characters that are the zoo animals and they talk to each other. The plot has an engaging group vs. person conflict because all the zoo animals are kept awake by the one singing Beebee bird. It resolves by all of the animals working together to teach the bird how things are done at the zoo.
Media Used: Gauche
Age Appropriateness: Primary