FICTION

Split! Splat!

by Amy GIBSON
Split! Splat! illus. by Steve Björkman. unpaged. CIP. Scholastic. Mar. 2012. RTE $16.99. ISBN 978-0-439-58753-2. LC 2011003772.
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PreS-Gr 1—A little girl ventures out into the springtime weather accompanied by her dog. Gibson keeps it simple as the child sings a made-up song: "I sing a little rain song,/a simple song,/a plain song." The watercolor illustrations show gleeful youngsters and their pets cavorting in mud puddles until the sun shines, when they disperse. In the last scene, the protagonist enjoys a bubble bath in an overflowing tub. Children will play with the rhyming words, just as Gibson does—"oochy sploochy woochy woosh"—and perhaps make up their words for a story.—Keisha M. Miller, South Orange Public Library, NJ
"I sing a little mud song, / a puddle song, / a muddle song, / a no-shoes, toes-ooze, / slip-slap-and-thud song." This rhyme, with its lighthearted wordplay, revels in the sounds of a rainy day. Exuberant illustrations follow a girl and her dog as they go outside, play in the rain and the mud, and return home to wash up in the tub.
Reviewed by Keisha M. Miller , Mar 01, 2012

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