Written by Laura Purdie Salas
Illustrated by Monique Felix
Publisher: Creative Editions, 2023
ISBN: 978-1568463834 14 pages
Description
In this board book celebration of play and puddles, a puddle sings out an invitation to boots, stompers, leaves, and more to come have a splash!
Bring me your boots,
you stompers
and jumpers…
Journal Reviews
A “…divine glimpse of children…” and an “…ode to childhood’s passion of viewing a silky surface and destroying it."
—School Library Journal
Salas’ simple, lilting text is full of satisfying phrases perfect for reading aloud like “stompers and jumpers” and “silver skin.”…Vibrant text and images come together to celebrate a rainy day.
—Kirkus Reviews
Reader Reactions
"Puddle Song is written with a simplicity that mimics the kind of simplicity that's often lost in childhoods of today."
An editor at Creative Editions was rejecting a different picture book manuscript of mine. She liked my writing, though, and asked if I had any board book manuscripts. For a couple of weeks, I sorted through hundreds of poems and sent a handful I thought might work as board books. They chose this poem, written around 2012. It was originally called "The Puddle's Call." Not a word of the poem changed except for the title. (First time that's every happened!)
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