Bright tropical colors create a jungle-like effect in an adaptation of an old nursery rhyme about a child walking, leaping, and swinging through the jungle, surrounded by the hissing and growling of wild animals.
"Walking through the jungle, What do you see? Can you hear a noise? What could it be?" A small child walks, creeps, runs, leaps, swings and, finally, wades through the jungle - hearing animal noises as he goes - in this traditional, everybody-join-in rhyme.
Reviews:
A real romp. Dazzling images astound and exicte little ones to swing, creep, run and leap through a flower-decked jungle. * Eastern Daily Press * A firm favourite. * Liverpool Echo *
Illustrations integrate the foreign and the familiar (for example, some trees and vines sport heart-shaped leaves), and subtle variations in color disguise the frequent starkness of the cut-paper medium. Clean patterns and benevolent depictions of the animals balance the impact of Lacome's deep, dramatic palette and dense compositions--while her jungle teems with exotica, it is never chaotic. Layout and pacing are effectively varied, likely to keep vicarious jungle-goers on their toes. Publishers Weekly