I wonder if...: Hippy Happy Hoppy Hornpipe Wednesday

Hardcover

Happiness is found in the most interesting of places. I quite love a children's book called "The Man Whose Mother was a Pirate." it is beautiful in its lyrical phrasing and was a huge favourite of all my children. Today I read another which I am going purchase a copy of and sing its praises.

Published: 1st November 2011
For Ages: 2+ years old

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc-KeMXpRCc there is a book trailer at that address

and Emma Quay can be found here http://www.emmaquay.com/books.html she has a large number of lovely books for little ones

On a scale of one to ten this scores a seventy from me for adorable. Emma Quay has perfectly captured that essential delight and beauty that can only be found in our teeny tiny little ones. The book flows well, the illustrations made me all clucky and silly and I have a HUGE grin on my face just looking at it. I loved when my own children were teensy weensy and had no bottom and tiny legs and ran around squealing with joy when ever they were freed from their constricting clothing and this book encapsulates that perfectly.

There is nothing more guaranteed to make you giggle than children running around ‘rudie nudie’ after their bath.

Emma Quay captures this delight in her marvelous illustrations. Pencil drawings are photo-shopped against patterns and colours of soft, pastel peaches, greens and blues. The entire book makes me smile in treasured remembrance of my own bath time wrigglers and captures the wonder and magic of toddlers freed from the daily constriction of tight clothes allowed to run free to explore and experience life in pure innocent joy.

The story and illustration work so perfectly together to bring a sense of playfulness and comfort. They children dance down the hall on tiny feet and roll, fall, dance, jump, spring, run, prance, and spin around the house and into the backyard. Every space and place becomes something to experience fully; rugs and grass, duvet and tickly leaves, even the cooler air outside.

In the end the ‘rudie nudies’ put on their ‘jammies’ and nestle sweet and peaceful in their beds.

The book achieved CBCA Early Childhood Book of the Year 2012- shortlisted

And Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year for Young Children 2012- shortlisted

RHYPIBOMO today was lesson eleven and it was all about repetition in its various forms. So here are my attempts to make sense for myself mostly.

Alliteration

Twenty two thousand and twenty three

Times twenty five hundred and ten

Ticking the ticket and checking it twice

To turn about the asking price

Of twenty two dollars and ten.

Anaphora is the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of every clause.

Over time things all change

Over time language differs

Over time things once strange

Over time change to known

Diaphora is the repetition of a name, first to signify the person or persons it describes, then to signify its meaning.

Spike he is though spike he’s not, Spike his name not spike his hair style.

Polyptoton is where the author repeats words derived from the same root but with different endings

Ride, rode, rid or ridden

on your bike down to the midden

Find the missing silver spoon

Ride back quick before the noon

Use a repeated line at the beginning and the end of a poem.

Once upon a time

She said

Is a lovely way to start

Tell a tale of love and daring

Tell it always from the heart

Tell it true then with a twist

leave them hanging on each word

Tell the sad and tell absurd

Send all their imaginings

Flying

On the wings like little birds

Then bring them back

To hearth and comfort

When they hear these loving words

Once upon a time.

Use a repeated line as the first line of each stanza.