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Vliegensvlugge Vlieg (2010)

by Michael Rosen(Favorite Author)

3.93 of 5 Votes: 5

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Lemniscaat

review 1: Tiny Little Fly is a simple story with rhyming, actions, and repetitive phrases. The story follows a fly as lands on different animals who try to get it. The illustrations greatly increase the enjoyment of this book. The backgrounds are neutral with shades of brown and just enough green to create plant textures, which make the realistic animals pop. The story starts on the end pages where a black line, shown throughout the story, allows the reader to trace the flies flight path. The reader can see the elephant's saggy skin as it moves. Some of the hippo's pink skin shows through it's mud layer. I love the mud splashes in the layout with the hippo rolling. Kevin Waldron really captures the animal's eyes well, with the exception of the fly. It's eyes make it look a b... moreit cute. It is after all hard to like or root for a fly.Tiny Little Fly is a good story for the youngest of children through to preschoolers. I think the ideal audience would be toddlers. The youngest children's attention can be held by using black pipecleaners with flys shaped onto the ends to touch the body part the fly lands on and then fly away. Toddlers will love burning up some energy copying the animals motions and preschoolers can help with the repetitive phrases. The only flaw with the book is double fold out near the end of the story. These may be fine for a personnal purchase, but tend to tear or crease with frequent use in schools or public libraries. Don't be surprised if your little one wants to pretend to be an animal that tries to get the fly after reading Tiny Little Fly.
review 2: A tiny little fly lights on several African animals, provoking them to try to catch him. None of them succeed and off he flies.A little masterpiece in its simple repetitive text and oversized pictures.“My, oh my,Tiny Little Fly!Tiny Little Fly says, ‘What’s this here?’‘Great Big Hippo!’And settles on his ear.Great Big Hippo winks one eye, says to himself, ‘I’m going to catch that fly!’” less

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