Scott M. FischerBesprekingen

Genre
Picture books for children
Stories in rhyme
Subject
Animals
Fear
Fear in animals
Jumping
Smallness and bigness
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This book is about animals making each other jump. It start with a frog making a bug jump and then a bug makes another animal jump and so on. I like this book because is so cute and has a good word choice. I would use this book in my classroom for something fun to read. This book is good for kids at the age of first and second grade.

Children who enjoy this musical romp along the food chain may grow up to appreciate Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf or that crazy wonderful "Food Chain" episode of Adventure Time. The audience embraces the point of view of a cartoonish animal resting content in its favorite spot until it notices a predator nearby and we all JUMP! Predator becomes prey in the next iteration of the rhythmic tale. The characters wear goofy expressions in bold watercolors that leap off the page. The repeating zoom effect of the illustrations mirrors the fluctuating intensity of the narrative.

The book was, in fact, based on a song and readily lends itself to chanting and dancing. Start each verse quiet for the sleepy animal (and use repetition to get some extra mileage out of the first line: "Well, I'm a bug, I'm a bug / I'm a snug little bug / Well, I'm a bug, I'm a bug / And I'm sleeping on this jug"). Then draw out the suspense of the approaching predator ("Untilllllllll... I see a frog and I...") before unleashing the mosh pit with "JUMP!" Use a motion, such as squatting and placing hands on the ground, to reset the quiet chant. The promise of getting to relive the suspense and release will help bring the crowd along.

One for the ukelele someday.

25 months - a cute book. Not too wordy, more for the one year old crowd.

simple story, good rhyme, JUMP!

Read the Bilingual version.

My two year old ADORES this book! He kicks his legs along to the rhythm, and loves the "sploosh!" at the end. Lots of fun!

Title: Jump!
Author: Scott M. Fischer
Genre: Children’s - Picture Book

Challenges: PB & J Challenge, 101 Books in 1001 Days Challenge, Read and Review Challenge 2010, 2010 Support Your Local Library Reading Challenge, 100 Reading Challenge, Pages Read 2010, Young Readers Reading Challenge 2010, What an Animal II, Monthly Mixer Mele, A to Z challenge


Rating: 5/5
No. of Pages: 32
Published: 2010


Inside Cover: If you were a FROG in a BOG and you saw a BUG on a JUG, what would you do?

Mine: I love anything to do with Frogs and this one is great. This book all started out as a song, but definitely changes well to a book.

This cute little picture book and wonderfully illustrated by the author. It has to do with each animal each smaller animal jumping away from the larger – the cat jumping from the dog, the crocodile jumping from the shark, the shark jumping from the whale

Summary: This is a rhyming story that begins with a bug, who jump away out of fear when it sees a frog. It then follows a chain, each animal who had been after a smaller animal turning into the one who has to jump away from an even bigger animal until a whale puts an end to it. The whale makes such a large splash that all the other animals are sent sailing back to where they'd come from.
Genre Critique: This is a book of fantasy. While each animal would likely be afraid and jump from the bigger animal that was after it, the fact that in the end all the animals get splashed back to their homes by a whale is impossible.
Plot: This was a patterned plot in that essentially the same event (with a slight variation) is repeated over and over throughout the story. This made it predictable and therefore makes it a simple plot for children to follow.
Media: Watercolor

Awesome read aloud, a little like the Little Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly-fly, frog, cat, etc.-all good jumps.

You can use to teach the food chain to ELL students, also surprise and that there is always something bigger than you.

You can use this to teach students rhythm, rhyme, elipses, exclamation, bold words, homonyms, phonemes, repetition, one word endings, onomatopoeia. Teach them how to add surprise to their stories.½

With loads of rhyming and repetition, Jump earns 5 stars on my "Promoting Phonemic Awareness" scale. The illustrations are fun and energetic, preschoolers will thoroughly enjoy jumping at all the right moments.

good for babies through preschool, very interactive, fun