![]() ![]() ![]() P/S: I borrowed this book from the library. But instead, the list is written in a very boring textbook style fashion, one animal at a time, starts with the baby, then mother, then father, and the animal groups. Fun fact: do you know that a mummy elephant and a mummy giraffe are both called a “cow”!). It’s informative, but really could have been written in a more interesting and engaging way (e.g. The last page gives a list of interesting names of animal babies, parents and groups. ![]() But compared to the writer’s other awesome gems like The Very Hungry Caterpillar, this book is undoubtedly a disappointment. ![]() The art works are nice, a signature style of Eric Carle. Carle has created a fabulous color collage of the animal mother and baby. “Does a giraffe have a mother too…” It gets a bit horrifyingly boring when we got to the 5th animals, and my heart sank when I realized there were still 6 more animals to go!Ģ0-month old little-AJ didn’t seem to mind too much about the repetition (although mummy has been creating varied texts for this book just to rescue myself from boredom- “oh look! It’s baby penguin and mama penguin! Oh, remember the song “Mary has a little lamb?”, yes that’s the lamb and mama sheep, baaa baaa!”). The narrator then asks if a lion has a mother, and asks the same question for a giraffe, a penguin, a swan, a fox, a dolphin, a sheep, a bear, an elephant and a monkey. The texts are repetitive “does a Lion have a mother too? Yes! A Lion has a mother. Publisher: HarperCollins Publisher (2000) ![]()
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