What’s Next, Books With Tails? (Actually, Yeah)
I ran across a book recently which struck me as unusual. I had never before seen a story with a built-in finger puppet:
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It reminded me of an outstanding post on Collecting Children’s Books a while back that focused on another children’s book gimmick – tails. Click the image below to read more.
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Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He writes reviews (and the occasional article or two) for School Library Journal and is a member of the 2014 Caldecott committee. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com, or follow him on Twitter: @100scopenotes.
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Total memory jog. When they were little, I had two books for my kids with finger puppets in them. I thought the concept was adorable. (The tails though, I could pass on.)
Yeah, there’s definitely a difference in functionality between books with finger puppets and books with tails.