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Humorous animal characters introduce the basic colors and familiar items of clothing. On board pages.Tags
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I discovered this book a couple of years ago while working at a bookstore and have been in love with it ever since. It might be because the book tickles my funny bone, or it might be because my mom used to make me laugh by telling me to put socks on my ears and shoes on my hands. Whatever the reason, it continues to be one of my favorites.
Full Review at Picture-Book-a-Day: http://picturebookaday.blogspot.com/2012/01/book-1-blue-hat-green-hat-by-sandra....
Full Review at Picture-Book-a-Day: http://picturebookaday.blogspot.com/2012/01/book-1-blue-hat-green-hat-by-sandra....
Four animals model their colorful clothes, but the poor turkey can never quite get it right. Oops. Hilarious from beginning to end.
We routinely dress ourselves wrong in this house as a way to cajole the kids into dressing properly (hey, whatever works, right?), so this book was right up our alley when the nieces were younger.
Every page has every animal putting on a different type of clothes correctly - except the turkey. Oops.
Eventually he's correctly dressed (purple socks!) - just in time to jump in a pool. Oops!
Hysteria for the toddler crowd.
At 5 and 2.5, the nieces are rapidly outgrowing this book, but I love it so much still that I'm reluctant to give it away just yet.
Every page has every animal putting on a different type of clothes correctly - except the turkey. Oops.
Eventually he's correctly dressed (purple socks!) - just in time to jump in a pool. Oops!
Hysteria for the toddler crowd.
At 5 and 2.5, the nieces are rapidly outgrowing this book, but I love it so much still that I'm reluctant to give it away just yet.
A wonderful little book for toddlers and also for the learning disabled. Not only is the dialogue very brief, but the portrayal of a turkey who cannot dress himself properly according to common sense or general social rules hits a chord with those who have trouble assessing social relationships. To toddlers, it's just funny and cute to see a turkey who can't figure out that his shoes go on his feet and that when jumping in the pool he shouldn't be fully dressed in street clothes.
This is a fun silly book that preschoolers love! It teaches colors and where clothes should go, in a humous way that gets kids interacting and laughing. With simple text the book has one of several animals putting on a different colored piece of clothing. They all get it right until ...Opps! the turkey, who seems a little confused. But children spot the turkey's mistake right away and enjoy knowing something that the turkey doesn't know.
This is a fun little book that my son loves reading from time to time because it has hats throughout the book. He is obsessed with hats, so he'll talk about the animals wearing what hat. The best part about this book is that, my son will pay attention to the colors and words. It's such a great book for cognitive development.
An excellent primer for colors and clothing and animals, with a rollicking funny story.
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Sandra Boynton was born in Orange, New Jersey, and grew up in the Mount Airy section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Boynton's parents became Quakers when she was two years old. From kindergarten through 12th grade, she and her sisters attended Germantown Friends School, where their father taught English and was Head of the Upper School. She went show more on to Yale, entering in 1970 for her second year of college. She spent the second semester of her junior year studying in Paris through Wesleyan University's program. At Yale, she majored in English. Boynton intended to become a theater director. For graduate studies in drama, she attended the University of California at Berkeley for one year, then transferred to the Yale School of Drama D.F.A. program, but she did not complete the program. With the birth of her first child in 1979, Boynton postponed indefinitely a career in the theater. Boynton began designing greeting cards for Recycled Paper Greetings. Her designs were at the forefront of the Alternative Cards commercial movement that began in the mid-1970s. According to RPG co-founder and president Mike Keiser, over 200 million copies of Boynton's distinctive humorous cards featuring an assortment of unnamed cartoon animal characters, spare layout, and droll messages sold between 1973 and 1995. Since the 1977 release of Hippos Go Berserk!, Boynton has published many children's books, as well as several illustrated humor books for the general market. Her books are most typically for very young children, offered in the laminated paperboard format known as board books. Five of her books have been New York Times best sellers: Chocolate: The Consuming Passion; Frog Trouble and Eleven Other Pretty Serious Songs; Yay, You!; Consider Love; and Philadelphia Chickens, which reached the number one position on the list, and was on the list for nearly a year. Two of her books are Publisher's Weekly bestsellers, Dinosaur Dance!, and Eek! Halloween!. Three of Boynton's books are on the Publishers Weekly All-Time Bestselling Children's Books list. More than 30 million copies of her books have been sold. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Blue Hat, Green Hat
- Original publication date
- 1984; 1995 (newly revised edition) (newly revised edition)
- Dedication
- For Jood and Rick
- First words
- Blue hat, green hat, red hat, oops.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Oops.
- Original language
- English
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- Reviews
- 22
- Rating
- (4.11)
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 6
- ASINs
- 4