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The Bird, the Monkey, and the Snake in the Jungle
(Hardcover, 1999)
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Author: Kate Banks, Tomek Bogacki
A bird, a monkey, and a snake lose their home in a tree and go looking for a new home, encountering ...
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0374307296
ISBN-13: 9780374307295
Mar 1999
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Grade:
From 1 to 2
Language: English |
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Synopsis
A bird, a monkey, and a snake lose their home in a tree and go looking for a new home, encountering various jungle animals on the way. Features rebuses, which are identified with labels in the margins of the pages., In this rebus story, a bird, a monkey, and a snake live together in a tree. When a storm blows their tree down, each animal decides that he would rather live alone. However, every time one of the trio thinks he has found the perfect home, he discovers that it is already occupied by another animal--and not all the animals they meet are friendly. The bird, the monkey, and the snake eventually realizes that they belong together, and that a tree makes the perfect home for them. Color illustrations accompany the text.
| Size | | Height: | 12.3 in | | Width: | 10.3 in | | Thickness: | 0.2 in | | Weight: | 16.0 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "Deep in the jungle there was a tree."
Industry Reviews
Gr 1-3-When a rainstorm destroys their home, a bird, a monkey, and a snake start off into the jungle in search of a new place to live. Tired of one another's annoying habits, each animal hopes to find a tree of its own. But the jungle is a dark and scary place, and after rescuing one another from spiders, crocodiles, and tigers, the three companions realize that they are better off sticking together. When they find a tree inhabited by a frog that is willing to share, they set up housekeeping, happily tolerating one another's idiosyncrasies. Told in rebus form, the story includes a key to the pictures on the outer margin of each right-hand page. Although children will undoubtedly enjoy playing the game, some aspects of the book may confuse them. A few of the illustrations don't look like what they are supposed to represent, e.g., the tree looks more like a leaf and the clouds look like rocks. In addition, the type is placed on the pages in a way that enhances the design but makes the order of the text difficult to follow. Still, the primitive-style illustrations, set on backgrounds of green and blue, have a Gauguin-like quality that captures the mystery and magic of the jungle. The story of friends who learn the value of sharing has been told many times but the rebus format puts a fresh spin on the tale.-Dawn Amsberry, formerly at Oakland Public Library, CA
Fox
Delicate, dense color and a mannered geometric layout politely call for attention in this rebus picture book by Banks (And If the Moon Could Talk) and Bogacki (Cat and Mouse). Small squares, like softly drawn computer icons, neatly contain symbols for the characters and objects in their environment. Mingled with the printed text and the full-bleed illustrations, these visual labels introduce a red-winged bird, autumn-brown monkey and gray-striped snake who share the same tree as their jungle home. Every morning, the bird sings, the monkey wakes to eat nuts and the snake complains when falling shells rain on his back. As a group, the three set out to find separate, private homes, but discover that the jungle's choicest branches are already occupied by the likes of squirrels and bats. Bogacki conceives of the wild setting as a grid of rectangles and curves, with mottled greens and dappled blues suggesting gentle sunlight filtered through a rain-forest canopy. Banks provides plenty of nouns (sun, bananas, leaves, etc.) to be included in the rebus. There's no flipping pages back and forth to read a master key; instead, at the top right of each spread, a helpful mini-key presents the pages' discrete symbols and what they represent. The text is laid out inventively vertically, diagonally, etc. but always clearly. This strategically structured volume, more puzzle than plot, makes an aesthetically pleasing introductory study in grammar, jungle life and cooperation. Ages 3-up. (Mar.)
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