Monday, August 10, 2009

readertotz CLASSIC: Bruce Degan, Jamberry

It's a classic post! Yay!

Give it up for Jamberry by Bruce Degen. How awesome to have this 1983 picture book in a board book format. It's a perfect fit.

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Revisit this classic or discover it for the first time with your totz. The rhythm is so catching you'll find you are reciting it together throughout your day.

"One berry
Two berry
Pick me a blueberry
Hatberry
Shoeberry
In my canoeberry

The fantasy includes a boy and bear off to find and pick berries for jam. Everyone joins the joyful pursuit, from animals circling the bear like a maypole to a goose driving a train. All the action culminates in a jam jamboree!

Bruce uses an ink line and watercolor to capture the fun and excitement of the tale. Full spreads alternate with half spreads and one wordless explosion of blueberries.

Pick up this board book before you go pick those berries at the close of summer. Whether they be strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, jazzberries, starberries...

Jamberry
by Bruce Degen
HarperFestival, 1995

4 comments:

Joan Holub said...

And he's the original Magic School Bus illustrator!

I didn't know this was in board book form. It's a classic. Thanks for posting it, Lorie Ann.

Swati said...

Cute :)

Lorie Ann Grover said...

I love this book! Thanks!

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