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Puddle Song
There is something about the smooth surface of a puddle that beckons to children to disturb it--they want to see how the water splashes upward, to feel the droplets on their skin. This poetic, illustrated board book gives voice to the puddle as it invites the "stompers and jumpers" to explore its rippling water, offering to act as both dance partner and mirror onto the world.
14 pages, Board book
Published March 14, 2023
About the author
Laura Purdie Salas
125 books166 followersLaura Purdie Salas is the author of more than 130 books for kids and teens, including WATER CAN BE... (Millbrook, 2014), A LEAF CAN BE... (Millbrook, 2012), and BOOKSPEAK! POEMS ABOUT BOOKS (Clarion, 2011). She loves to introduce kids to poetry and help them find poems they can relate to, no matter what their age, mood, and personality.
Laura is a thinker, a cupcake and brownie addict, and an adventurer (as long as it doesn't involve skydiving).
Laura is a thinker, a cupcake and brownie addict, and an adventurer (as long as it doesn't involve skydiving).
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June 16, 2023
Read aloud to my 11 month old. It’s a short song about puddles and the rain but I didn’t love it.
Facts about this book:
• Board book
• Shows kids playing in the rain outdoors
• Variety of children and colors
• Song that doesn’t quite make sense
Facts about this book:
• Board book
• Shows kids playing in the rain outdoors
• Variety of children and colors
• Song that doesn’t quite make sense
March 20, 2023
One glance at that cover calls to mind the splish-splash nature of spring, especially in the midwest. These days, weather extremes offer rainy-day experiences across the country. Heavy rains may even be frightening to small ones. A book like this is exactly the joyful, glistening, imagination-sparking story that might restore impulsive puddle-jumping memories to childhood lives.
Salas is a brilliant wordsmith, rhymer, and image-evoker, whose lines in this short text assume the voice of the puddle. With a call out to those children, to ALL children, to the child in all of us, puddle calls for boots, stompers, jumpers. Puddle celebrates the potential for dancing, floating, and sloshing in every creature, with a final spread that settles its 'silver skin" into ripples in a breeze.
With no images at all, this short verse sings like the loveliest of lyrics, as the title suggests. When portrayed in subdued rainbow colors, from charming perspective shifts, and with reflective light effectively transforming water into magic on every page, the text soars. Young readers will be begging for rain, and boots, and puddles, but will savor the vicarious experience in these pages when those are not on hand.
Salas is a brilliant wordsmith, rhymer, and image-evoker, whose lines in this short text assume the voice of the puddle. With a call out to those children, to ALL children, to the child in all of us, puddle calls for boots, stompers, jumpers. Puddle celebrates the potential for dancing, floating, and sloshing in every creature, with a final spread that settles its 'silver skin" into ripples in a breeze.
With no images at all, this short verse sings like the loveliest of lyrics, as the title suggests. When portrayed in subdued rainbow colors, from charming perspective shifts, and with reflective light effectively transforming water into magic on every page, the text soars. Young readers will be begging for rain, and boots, and puddles, but will savor the vicarious experience in these pages when those are not on hand.
October 1, 2023
Glorious poetry and wondrous illustration put this book on the top of the pile:
Bring me your boots, you stompers and jumpers
Bring me your leaves, you wind-rattled trees
I'll dance with you, cradle you and
Show you your world in my silver skin rippling light in the breeze.
Perfect! Best board book of the year, so far. Use this in all your infant and preschool classes before going out with boots and becoming stompers and jumpers together!
Bring me your boots, you stompers and jumpers
Bring me your leaves, you wind-rattled trees
I'll dance with you, cradle you and
Show you your world in my silver skin rippling light in the breeze.
Perfect! Best board book of the year, so far. Use this in all your infant and preschool classes before going out with boots and becoming stompers and jumpers together!
April 17, 2023
Super quick read for a rainy day. Loved the full spread dog and snail illustrations.
May 30, 2023
Quiet, beautiful and simple -- would love to try this in a baby time here on the rainy westcoast
August 18, 2023
I am so delighted with Creative Editions and Monique Felix and what they created from my Puddle Song poem! Thank you, everyone who had a part in this book!
October 26, 2023
This newly published board book made me think of books I read as a child in the nineties, and that's a compliment! I liked the classic art style, and I enjoyed the short poem as well.
March 17, 2024
Little ones who love stomping in puddles are going to love this board book.
July 8, 2024
That last page ruins the flow.
August 30, 2024
Maybe if it was an actual song it would have been more interesting?
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