Bear Hugs

by Libby Walden, Vicky Riley (Illustrator)

Overview

You’re super-cute and cuddly, as sweet as apple pie. You are my one and only, the apple of my eye. Celebrate the little special ones in your life with this sweet rhyming board book, filled with cute nicknames and bear hugs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781680105193
Publisher:	Tiger Tales.
Publication date:	03/07/2017
Pages:	18
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.70(d)
Lexile:	AD580L (what's this?)
Age Range:	2 - 5 Years

About the Author

Libby Walden is a children's book editor whose days are filled with writing, reading and dreaming up new books.

Editorial Reviews

01/30/2017
Walden deploys an unabashedly sugary string of similes and metaphors as she writes in the voice of a parent singing the praises of its child: “You’re super-cute and cuddly,/ as sweet as pumpkin pie./ You are my one and only,/ the apple of my eye.” Working mostly in a palette of pastel colors, Riley creates a lightly anthropomorphic animal cast whose props and activities mirror the terms of endearment in the text. While the bouncy rhymes and uniformly cheery scenes can feel a bit one-note, as a testament to a parent’s unconditional love, it should hit the mark with many families. Ages 1–3. (Mar.)

Publishers Weekly

2017-03-15
Adult animals shower love on their little ones.This board book is all about love, specifically the love caregivers have for their children. In second-person text that uses an abcb rhyme scheme, little readers are given praise and colorful nicknames. "Doodlebug," "sweetheart," "sugar plum," "champ," and more are on offer. The book encourages cuddling and ends with a call for a big bear hug. The gently stylized figures and muted color scheme make this board book stand out visually, but beyond this superficial difference there is little that truly grabs the attention from others on the shelf. The foxes, rabbits, bears, and monkeys are all suitably adorable and will probably entertain young readers that have just begun to sit still for read-alouds. The compositions are sometimes overbusy and the visual metaphors strained. As an adult owl calls its baby a "yummy little cupcake," the baby appears with pink feathers, green wings, and a leafy topknot, for all the world like a small flying strawberry hovering over a pastry—a picture that may be quite difficult for little ones to decode. Still, adults looking for a read-aloud snuggle could do worse than this softly worded examination of love and the words we use to express it. (Board book. 1-2)

Kirkus Reviews