Off We Go!

By Jane Yolen

Book Overview

"Tip-toe, tippity toe Hip-hop, hippity hop Dig-deep, diggity deep Slither-slee, slithery slee Scritch-scratch, scritchity scratch Creep-crawl, creepity crawl" Join Little Mouse, Little Frog, Little... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316902284
• ISBN13: 9780316902281
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.5" x 0.4" x 10.3"
• Age Range: 1 to 6 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 1

Customer Reviews

Wonderful small board book for 6 months and up

I am pleased "Off We Go" is now offered as a board book for a very young child. I have the larger hardcover paper page edition but gave my 9 month old granddaughter the smaller board book. She loves the lyrical rhyming and it is a book that can be read over and over again- "Scritch-scratch, scritchity scratch, Directly from the egg I hatch" Sings Little Duck. A great book for any grandparent to receive or to give as a gift.

My son & I rate this book #1!!

I really hope the author and illustrator read this review so they will know how much their book is loved!... The rhymes are fun to read and the illustrations are gorgeous. My son is clearly entranced by the pictures and loves to look at them by himself. The book contains a few animals we don't see in other books (moles, spiders) which I like - it is nice to have a break from cows/horses/etc. The pictures are also fairly realistic....

Ilustrations that fly off the page

The beautiful illustrations of this lyrical story exuberantly fly off the page, mud splattering, water splashing and more. The text - telling how various animals make their way to Grandma's house in all differnt ways - is the type of sing-song sound laden verse that's fun to read and re-read and re-read along with your child ("Tip-toe, tippety toe, Hip-hop, hippity hop, Dig-deep, diggety deep"). But, its the illustrations that make the book sing. Watercolors that are at once delicate and exuberant, Laurel Molk has captured dazzling webs woven by spiders, crumbly earth thrown out by digging moles and mud and pond water following a frog's leap through the air. Great book!

A terrific, simple, rhyme story for youngsters.

Jane Yolen's Off We Go! tells of baby animals who embark on ajourney to Grandmother's house. Each animal has a very different homedestination in this simple rhyme story.

Follow the Baby Forest Animals

Follow some baby forest animals as they scamper and romp their way to grandma's. Delightful watercolors of scurrying little critters, and words of sound and movement accompany the tiny feet as they rush to grandma's house because "grandma's house is always best." A great read aloud and read along for emerging readers. A great tie-in for national poetry month, baby animals, and just sheer language fun.