Yakety Yak Animal Names That Are Also Action Words - by Kathy Broderick (Hardcover)

About the Book

"When you hear the words yak or badger or bat, do you think of animals? Maybe you can imagine them while they are yakking, badgering, or batting! Duck into this book's playful pages to explore action words that sound like animal names and the dictionary definitions that help explain them."--Provided by publisher.

Book Synopsis

When you hear the words yak or badger or bat, do you think of animals? Maybe you can imagine them while they are yakking, badgering, or batting! Duck into this book's playful pages to explore action words that sound like animal names and the dictionary definitions that help explain them.

Review Quotes

A lively exploration of animal names with matching action words.

Opening with "Two yaks yak loudly" and closing with "Hounds hound a celebrity," this introduction to 16 animals with names that also act as action verbs proves playful and entertaining. Each animal's name and its corresponding sound-alike verb are used in a short sentence printed in large, bold type, with the verb's phonetic pronunciation and definition printed in smaller type below. Dynamic, colorful, comical double-page illustrations add a surprising, lighthearted visual context for each pair. For "a duck ducks just in time," the illustration reveals a duck on a construction site wearing a hard hat ducking to avoid a beam. Illustrating "a bear bears bread and butter," a bear working as a waiter in a restaurant totes a tray of bakery treats. And when "a bat bats last," a bat wearing a baseball helmet prepares to swing at an approaching ball. Rendered with visual and verbal panache, other unexpected and amusing scenarios include a perch perching in a tree to dive, cranes craning their necks to see in a movie theater, and flounders floundering as they attempt to ride bicycles. Young readers may need some help in understanding a few of them, as with the bug that does not pester others but rather eavesdrops via a listening device. Some readers may cavil at the depiction of bald eagles in the "hawk hawks hats" scene.
Delightful wordplay. (Picture book. 4-7)

--Kirkus Reviews "https: //www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/kathy-broderick/yakety-yak-animal-names-that-are-also-action-words/" (6/16/2021 12:00:00 AM)

About the Author

Kathy Broderick is the author of A Loveliness of Ladybugs, Yakety Yak, A Wisdom of Wombats, and Wild Goose Chase. She believes that books and words empower children, and she advocates for libraries and literacy programs in public schools.