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PreS-Gr 2 No bones about it, this glorious title is a paper-engineering and bookmaking marvel as well as a freewheeling romp. Adapting the traditional counting song, Zelinsky gets maximum mileage out of the minimal nonsense text, larding the visual narrative with dogs, bones, and plenty of old men, each of whom plays "knick-knack paddywhack" ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

In a companion to The Wheels on the Bus (rev. 1/91), Zelinsky brings us another cumulative nursery song with inventive paper engineering. Both books use the gamut of pop-up techniques over eight spreads, but while Wheels had movable parts that referred directly to the action of the book (wheels going around, wipers swishing back and forth), Knick-Knack is a bit trickier. The text itself is a mystery: who is "this old man" and what does he have to do with giving a dog a bone? How do you play knick-knack? Zelinsky has chosen to keep nonsense in the forefront while employing a...Log In or Sign Up to Read More