Indestructibles: Jungle Rumble! Author: Visit Amazon's Kaaren Pixton Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0761158588 | Format: PDF
Indestructibles: Jungle Rumble! Description
About the Author
Amy Pixton, a mother of triplets, created Indestructibles after bits of traditional board books found their way into her babies' mouths. Amy lives in Kansas City with her husband and their three children.
Kaaren Pixton has been making art with children for many years. Kaaren’s studio is at her home in West Linn where she lives with her husband, one dog, five chickens, goldfish in a pond and countless grandchildren romping in the gardens.
- Age Range: Baby - 2 years
- Series: Indestructibles
- Paperback: 12 pages
- Publisher: Workman Publishing Company (August 5, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0761158588
- ISBN-13: 978-0761158585
- Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 6.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.3 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Jungle Rumble has lovely water color-like illustrations of various jungle creatures, (obviously). The colors are quite vibrant and jump out of the page, and I think the bright colors will appeal to most babies.
I like the style of the artist, who appears to also be the creator of this series of Indestructible books along with her daughter-in-law. (Side note: The daughter-in-law is the mother of triplets and must understand that innate need that babies have to want to destroy pages of paper). I own five books from the series and will cut and paste a similar review for all five of them on Amazon. I started out with two books and immediately bought three more and my 5.5 month old baby has been using and enjoying these books since about 4 months old. I let my baby hold the book and explore it on his own and I don't do much beyond pointing to something on the page and saying, "That's a fish!" or something similar. My baby doesn't constantly want to hear a 20 page story, he just wants to hear my voice while he joyfully attempts to rip up the book.
Besides being a new mom, I'm also a librarian; formerly a Children's Librarian although now I work with adults. In any case, I'm aware of the importance of introducing the concept of books early on to get little ones prepared for reading one day and to teach them that books are enjoyable. For babies, that means getting them used to feeling a book (sometimes tasting, it can be hard to get them not to do that and it's how they explore), holding it and encouraging them to look at the pictures. I completely understand the criticisms that some of the users have for the fact that these books are wordless, thus preventing the chance to make word associations and the like.
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