Puddles are for Jumping
Age 4+
Picture Books
Trees are for climbing, Swings are for flying,
And puddles are definitely for jumping!
Puddles Are for Jumping tells the story of a mother and two children taking a ‘walk’ to the park and shops. Each step of the journey shows how joy can be extracted from even the simplest and mundane of activities by looking at them from a different/child’s perspective.
Creators
Kylie Dunstan is an award-winning author and illustrator of children’s picture books. Her first book Collecting Colour won the CBCA Picture Book of the year in 2009. Kylie now lives in Melbourne with her partner and two girls.
Reviews
Puddles are for Jumping has very simple and repetitive text, making it a great book for promoting young children’s language learning. The book is written in present tense and includes multiple models of the copula ‘are’. The various action words are beautifully depicted in the pictures, making these verbs more concrete and easy to understand.
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