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Tall

Title:

Tall

Author:

Alborough, Jez, author.

Summary:

Various jungle animals help a very little monkey named Bobo to feel that he is tall. On board pages.

Audience:

Preschool

General Note:

Reprint. Originally published: c2005.

Edition:

1st U.S. board book ed.

Physical Description:

1 v. : col. ill. ; 13 x 15 cm.

Genre:

Stories in rhyme.

Picture books.

Subject Term:

Size -- Juvenile fiction.

Monkeys -- Juvenile fiction.

Jungle animals -- Juvenile fiction.

Publisher:

Candlewick Press,

Publication Date:

2007

2005

ISBN:

9780763633288

9781844280407

Publication Information:

Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2007, c2005.

Call Number:

P ALBOROU

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"A must-have title for any children who have ever felt less than enchanted with their diminutive status." - SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL

When you're a tiny chimp like Bobo, it seems that everyone else is bigger than you. Luckily, Bobo's pals let him climb on their shoulders to give him a taste of being tall, but what if the little guy clambers too high? In this tale of very few words -- and very big heart -- Jez Alborough turns a moment of high anxiety into a Mommy-and-Bobo reunion.

Author Notes

Jez Alborough was born in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey in 1959. After secondary school, Jez went to Art School in Norwich. After college, he spent two years as an editorial illustration freelancer, before he started writing and illustrating his own children's books. In 1984 his first book, Bare Bear, was published and in 1985 Jez was runner-up in The Mother Goose Award for this book. He has now written and illustrated over thirty books for children

Alborough and 500 schoolchildren in London embraced each other for fifteen seconds in a giant "hugathon," raising nearly six thousand dollars for charity and earning a place in the Guinness Book of World Records in celebration of the publication of his book Hug.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (2)

School Library Journal Review

PreS-Bobo, the chimp who searched for his very own embrace in the tender Hug (Candlewick, 2000), is back with a new quest in mind. He makes his way through the jungle, feeling rather small until he climbs on a rock and is convinced that he is now "tall." Unfortunately, many creatures still tower over him, even as he is lifted onto the head of a baby lion, a baby elephant, and even a giraffe before taking a dramatic tumble and being saved by his mother's nick-of-time catch. By the end, a slightly wiser Bobo is satisfied being small, while held tight in Mom's protective arms. In spite of the spare text (there are five words in all), Bobo embodies an impressive range of identifiable emotions. Alborough's adept pen-and-gouache illustrations make each feeling and point of view crystal clear through everything from slumped shoulders to delighted outstretched arms. Even the chimp's brief moments of woe are less self-pitying than simply glum. A must-have title for any children who have ever felt less than enchanted with their diminutive status.-Elizabeth Bird, New York Public Library (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Publisher's Weekly Review

PW called the primate hero first introduced in Hug, "a cheerful chimp nearly as sweet as Curious George." Bobo here returns in the board book edition of Tall by Jez Alborough, finding increasingly higher perches (with a minimum of words) until a tumble takes him into the arms of his "Mommy!" (Candlewick, $6.99 32p ages 1-3 ISBN 978-0-7636-3328-8; Mar.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

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