Sing along to the time-honored nursery rhyme! If You're Happy and You Know It is illustrated for very young children by Hazel Q. This bright and beautiful board book features adorable Australian animals including a quokka, a kangaroo, and a koala. This sturdy board book is designed to withstand lots of love and learning, making it a wonderful addition to baby's first library. Hazel Q. Nursery Rhymes celebrate children's best-loved read along nursery rhymes and songs. Nursery rhymes are the classic introduction for babies and young children to the idea of storytelling. While delighting in the rhyming words and appealing illustrations, children are boosting their language development and learning social skills. Hazel Quintanilla has a passion for illustration. She has spent her life mastering a wide variety of media. She has worked on over twenty series in the US, England, and India. Hazel lives and works in Guatemala with her husband and their three cute dogs. A series of chipper marsupials act out the movements of the popular children's song-koalas in trees clap their hands, kangaroos in the desert stomp their feet, and quokkas in a green field offer big smiles. Quintanilla renders her environments in a range of patterns and bright colors. Adult readers have a number of choices: read the text as written, perform the song, encourage young listeners to get up and dance themselves. VERDICT An appealing supplemental purchase

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