Higher! Higher! (edition 2009)

Very minimal text and bright lovely illustrations. A little girl swings higher and higher! ( )

A book of very few words, yet gets the point across. This is the story of a little girl who wants to go as high as she possibly can on the swing. She is constantly asking her dad to go higher and higher, wanting to be taller than a giraffe, the house, and eventually out into space. Here she says hi to an alien that is also on a swing, showing that everyone always wants to go higher on the swings. Finally she falls past everything and ends back at the start. Accomplishing her goal of being the highest she can be.

Children’s Fantasy

Characters: A little girl and her dad

Setting: A park in the middle of the city

Theme: Father and daughter relationships, Friends, Adventure

Genre: Humor, Fantasy & Picture Book

Audience: 2 year olds to Preschool Children

Summary: A little girl and her dad go to the park so she can ride the swing. She keeps on telling him to go higher and higher, each time she imagines she is encountering someone. For example she see’s a giraffe and then she as her dad to keep pushing up reaching new heights of fun and fantasy. She imagines she overlooks the city and then the mountains until she is in the sky next to a plane. The little girl continues to ask her dad to push her until she is next to an alien girl on a swing they meet and say good bye as they continue to swing. The little her finally gets of the swing and goes home with her dad.

Curriculum Ties: Language Arts-Students can narrate the story to an adult or to other children. This can help them develop new vocabulary and also use their imagination to construct a story.

Personal Note: I really like this book because it is very
colorful and it reflects the imagination of small children. It is very humorous and adventurous because it has aliens and animals many children fantasies with big animals or that they meet aliens which allows them to use their imagination.

The imaginative and adorable illustrations make this book worth reading. The book follows the short story of a nameless little girl and her father pushing her on the swing. Every time she says "higher!", her father pushes her higher and the swing seems to grow by the mile! After no time she is high-fiving aliens in space. This book is especially cute to me because it captures the feeling that I imagine toddlers feel when they are shrieking "higher, higher" for as long as an adults arms are capable of pushing them. I remember swings being a source of minor inspiration as a child. In the sense that when I was swinging I would sing and dream and imagine that I could fly much farther than the swing would propel me. The story does not have much content because it mostly consists of one word, but it would be a fun book to read to a very small child. ( )

This book takes children into a world of wonder and adventure. There are very limited words but the illustrations as well as the few words allow the reader to enjoy her adventure. The illustrations are full of motion and had me keep turning the pages to see what was next. The Martian in outer space make it fun. This is another story that children of all ages can re-write.

This is a very simple easy read, and I would definitely use this for the younger students. There are relatable scenes, but overall not much content. ( )

I would probably read this book aloud to my class and throughout the story ask the kids what they think they would see if they were able to swing that high.

This book shows a familiar scene in a unique way. A young girl is asking to go "higher, higher!" on a swing. With each push, she sees a new, higher view of her city. Finally, she is in outerspace and give an alien, who is also on a swing asking to go "higher" a high five. She comes down and asks to go "again."

This engaging book conveys so much with so few words. On every page the imaginitive thrill of going higher is clearly expressed. After reading this book with my son, we play "Higher, higher" and high five on the swings. It is a delightful book.

I think this book would be best used as a read aloud in early childhood education or as an early reader. ( )

Summary: The simple story of a little girl being pushed higher and higher on a swing by her dad. She meets all sorts of things and animals as she goes higher.
Genre: Picture Book
Personal Reflection: This is an adorable story about imagination and the simple joys of life.
Concept: This book would be good to read to a very little person. ( )

Simple, easy-to-read preschool/toddler picture board book. 4 stars. ( )

Very cute images of a girl who imagines that when her dad pushes her she goes higher than a build, a mountain, and up into space. Great imagination book!

Higher! Higher! was written and illustrated by Leslie Patricelli. It's about a little girl on a swing and what she sees in her imagination as she goes higher and higher. Hand-lettered with simple, child-like drawings.in bright acrylics; some pages have no words, others only one or two. Nevertheless, there's a lot going on in the pictures for a child to talk about. It was a 2009 Boston Globe - Horn Book Picture Book Honor Book. Patricelli mostly does board books featuring a bald baby, and says she got the idea for this book from pushing her own two-year-old daughter on a swing.

© Amanda Pape - 2011 ( )

This is a very simple book that goes through what a little girl sees as she is pushed on a swing. She asks to go higher and higher and meets various things that are in the air (a rocket, a mountain climber, a giraffe, a plane, etc.). She goes higher until she meets an alien friend, gives him a high five and then returns to earth. It is in English and Spanish and although contains few words could be useful in teaching small children another language.
The art is simple and fun and has very vibrant colors that would attract the attention of children. ( )

This nostalgic book tells the story of a little girl who wants her dad to push her higher and higher on her swing. With each push, she reaches new heights, ending in space and giving a high five to an alien on his own swing. Students can practice making predictions as each page gives a sneak peek as to what the little girl will see next. ( )

This book maybe a good book to use with lower elementary students. Examples of use would be to infer what the little girl is going to see next, as well as spacial awareness. What is taller than a mountain? A plane.

A little girl asks to be pushed higher and higher on the swingset. Each page shows her getting to a new level of height. Eventually she gets so high she can high five an alien. When she comes back down, she asks to go again! Fun to read with a little one because they can guess what word comes next- Higher!

Higher! Higher! is a simple story about a little girl who is being pushed on a swing. As she is pushed she sees things that correlate with how "high" she has gone.

A story about a girl, with the help of her father, who wants to swing higher and higher trying to defy gravity!

This was a fun book about a girls experience when wanting to go "higher" on a swing. As her father pushes her, we get to go on her adventure to a mountaintop, an airplane and we get to meet an alien. We then take the trip back down with her. This was a fun book, grasping the thoughts of children who can close their eyes, and let their imaginations run wil.

Fun illustrations, little girl wants to go higher, higher, and higher. She goes so high she high fives a space alien and comes back, she of course wants to go again. Maybe too simple for read-aloud?! ( )

A little girl being pushed in a swing keeps wanting to go higher, over the sky rises, mountain, out of the atmosphere and into outer space. This board book uses very few words, mostly the repetition of the girl's request to go “Higher! Higher!”, and, when she is done swinging the inevitable cry of “Again!”. The illustrations are fun and bright, with lots of solid colors, and the little girl's excitement is evident from her wide smile. There are fun details, too, like a monkey in a rocketship. The feeling of being pushed in a swing and imagining flying into space is familiar to most children, and they will enjoy this fun and simple book for toddlers. ( )

This is a cute story that teaches kids to reach higher and higher and it's okay to dream big.

There are hints in this book as to what might be coming next. Again, this could be a great book for teaching inferencing and/or narrative storytelling.

This is a great book that describes what every kid has imagined while swinging. The simple use of words really allows kids to study the details of the illustrations. A little girl at the park tells her dad to push her higher and higher and higher, as she passes a giraffe, a tall building, a mountain climber, an airplane, a monkey in a rocket ship, and finally gives a high five to an alien kid swinging just like she is. Then it's down, down, down, and of course, 'Again!' Then you have to read the book again of course! ( )

Two children encourage their father to push them perpetually higher on the swing as they try to surpass the height of a giraffe, a mountain, and the very boundaries of Earth.