Hide & Seek

By Il Sung Na

Year: 2011

Publisher: Meadowside Children’s Books, London

Age: 4 - 6 years

No. of Pages: 32

Book Type: Picture Book

ISBN:  978 1 84539 545 2

It’s time to play in the forest. The animals decide to play hide-and-seek. Of course, it was the chameleon’s idea, who is after all, an expert at hiding in plain sight.

The Elephant counts from 1 to 10. He finds all the animals except Chameleon.

We loved this book because we got to look for Chameleon, who was cleverly concealed by the author, on every page! :-)

Excerpt

At the edge of the vast rain forest, where sunlight shines through the leaves, the animals gather together.

Something is about to happen!

Alligator Tails and Crocodile Cakes (I am Reading)

Author: Nicola Moon

Illustrator: Andy Ellis

Year: 1996

Publisher: Kingfisher Publications, London

For Ages: 3 and above

No. of Pages: 46

Book Type: Chapter book for new readers, Paperback

ISBN: 978 0 75341 550 4

It was, and is probably, rare to have reptiles as the protagonists in a children’s book which is why this book piqued our interest.

Meet two friends, Crocodile and Alligator in two tales. Hide and Seek humorously shows how hard it is to hide when you have a big tail.

In the second story, the friends attempt to bake a cake while munching on the ingredients. Well, you can imagine how that turned out! :-)

The reptiles have been made as friendly as possible and the kids were just fine with it, too. In fact, our younger children lost their fear of the dreaded crocodile, which, until this book came along, has been their favorite villain.

Excerpt

“Coming, ready or not!” called Crocodile.

He looked to the left.

He looked to the right.

He looked up and he looked down.

And then …

“Found you! Found you! I can see your tail!” he sang.