Recommended Age - Late preschool; Kinder
This little early reader won the Geisel Award at last week's ALA Midwinter Meeting. I had not read it, so I immediately put it on hold at the library. Tonight my kindergartener, Henry, read it aloud to me during his reading time after dinner. The basic storyline is that three birds banter back and forth as they demonstrate the concepts of up, tall, and high in three short sections. The illustrations are simple, colorful cartoons, and there is one flap to lift at the end of each section.
Up, Tall, and High! was a hit with Henry. He laughed at the antics of the birds, picked up on the jokes, made sound effects to go with the wordless pages, and enjoyed lifting the flaps. The book is definitely for someone who is in the very beginning stages of literacy, but Henry enjoyed the story even though the words were simple for him. After a quick explanation of a rating system, Henry gave it 4 stars for "very good."
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