After the Buzz Comes the Bee: Lift-the-Flap Animal Sounds

by Robie Rogge, Rachel Isadora (Illustrator)

Overview

Buzz! Quack! Lift the flap to find the animals that are making all the noise! With humorous illustrations by Caldecott honoree Rachel Isadora.


“After the buzz comes the . . . “
Lift the flap to find the bee!
“After the quack comes the . . . “
Lift the flap to find the duck!

Lift the four-inch, heavy cardstock flaps to reveal boldly colored animals in this charming gift book. A group of adorable and diverse kids follow the hoot-hoot through the woods to find an owl under a bright moon. Hearing oink-oink, a little boy finds a messy piglet hiding behind a veggie trough. A pair of friends find a panda climbing a vibrant bamboo grove, saying ar-ar-ar.

An interactive guessing game in a large format picture book with 10 fun flaps. Toddlers will delight in the funny sounds and finding animals, familiar and unusual, while learning pre-reading skills at the same time.

Caldecott honor winning co-author and illustrator Rachel Isadora and innovative co-author Robie Rogge, who launched the groundbreaking bestseller Fun with Hieroglyphs, have come together to create a gift book that is perfect for baby showers, birthdays, and holidays.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780823449200
Publisher:	Holiday House
Publication date:	04/05/2022
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.20(d)
Age Range:	2 - 5 Years

About the Author

Rachel Isadora has written and illustrated more than 200 children’s books, including Ben’s Trumpet, a Caldecott Honor book. Her exceptional list of bestsellers includes Bea at Ballet and other books about Bea, Every Little Thing, based upon the song by Bob Marley, and Flossie and Fox by Patricia McKissack. She is also co-author and illustrator of I Say Please and Thank You: Lift-the-Flap Manners for Holiday House. Rachel, a former ballet dancer, is also a fine artist with a special interest in dance. She divides her time between New York City and France.

Robie Rogge was publishing manager at New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art where she initiated Fun with Hieroglyphs, the Can You Find It? series, and Museum ABC. She is the author of Baby See, Baby Do: Lift and Look in the Mirror and One Black Cat Board Book. And for adults, she is co-author of Do One Thing Every Day That Scares You: A Journal. She is also co-author of I Say Please and Thank You: Lift-the-Flap Manners for Holiday House. Robie lives in New York City.

Editorial Reviews

02/14/2022

In this lift-the-flap book from previous collaborators Isadora and Rogge (I Say Please and Thank You), 11 creatures announce their presence, each with their own distinctive noise. Opening the vertical flap on the right-hand side of each spread reveals the sounding-off being, which is greeted by a member of the book’s preschool cast, portrayed with various skin tones and hair textures. Alongside the titular bee, favorite farm (“After the baa-baa-baa...// come the sheep”) and woodland animals and insects appear, as do a few less well-known sound/animal pairs (“After the ah-ah-ah...// come the sloths”). In the penultimate spread, a group of children stand attentively in a starry, full moon–lit night to hear an owl hooting, a wonderful surprise following nine spreads with bright white backgrounds. And the final frame literally brings things home, with a child singing a lullaby to a crib-tucked infant. Though portrayals of seemingly East Asian characters border on stereotypical, crisply inked, loosely rendered pen, ink, and watercolor illustrations take place along a single plane, generally placing the reader at the child characters’ eye level and enabling audiences to savor the animals’ irresistible appearance and the children’s quiet poise—which the animals clearly appreciate—in the wake of each sound’s reveal. Ages 2–5. (Apr.)

Publishers Weekly

★ "This beautiful little book will appeal to toddlers and their parents alike and would work equally well one-on-one or in story time."—School Library Journal, Starred Review
 
"Crisply inked, loosely rendered pen, ink, and watercolor illustrations take place along a single plane, generally placing the reader at the child characters’ eye level and enabling audiences to savor the animals’ irresistible appearance and the children’s quiet poise—which the animals clearly appreciate—in the wake of each sound’s reveal."—Publishers Weekly

From the Publisher

★ 05/01/2022

PreS-K—This lift-the flap book capitalizes on the appeal of animal sounds and visual guessing games to create a simple yet delightful whole. Each page starts with the fragment "after the" followed by an animal sound, such as buzz, oink, or whoo. When the flap is opened, the animal is revealed visually, along with the name of the animal. It is an incredibly simple idea, but Isadora's delightfully colorful and appealing illustrations give it life. Children, who are a diverse lot, search for or interact with the animals; the animals range from the expected frog, pig, and sheep, to the more unusual panda, hedgehog, and sloth. The book ends with an older sibling singing a baby to sleep, almost more of inference than a statement, that after the musical notes comes "Zzzzz." Listeners will love being in on the finale. Isadora's full-bleed illustrations place the animals in wholly appropriate habitats, while the flaps leave just the right amount to the imagination. This beautiful little book will appeal to toddlers and their parents alike and would work equally well one-on-one or in story time. VERDICT A perfect addition to any library serving toddlers.—Amy Lilien-Harper

School Library Journal