Review: DOTTIE DOLPHIN PLAYS HIDE-AND-SEEK (Maurice Pledger)

My entire family is pretty animal crazy and this boardbook from Maurice Pledger would have found shelf space in any of my siblings homes.

THE STORY:  Dottie Dolphin is swimming around the reef looking for her siblings.  And all sorts of beautiful reef creatures like a Lionfish and turtle give her clues or tell her that they aren't dolphins.

WHAT I LOVE about this book are the brilliant colors and all the animals and objects that there are to point-at and name.  There are sponges, seaweed, and coral; also seahorses, lionfish, turtles, a giant clam, seagulls, frigate birds, and a clownfish and so much more.  In fact, I don't know the names of all the critters.

CONSTRUCTION
-- The pages and cover and sturdy.
-- The front cover has a patch of silky, but textured, fabric where little ones will be able to 'pet' Dottie Dolphin.
-- Not every page has a pull-down tab.  There are four in total.  Plus the last page has fold out which makes it 3 panels wide.
-- The tabs are not the thick cardboard kind, but the heavily plasticized sort.  In fact, all of the pages are very shiny and I would think be water resistant.


WHAT I REALLY THINK:  This would be an excellent book to share with little ones after they are past the 'animal basics'.  (You know, once they know dog/cat/horse/chicken).

Children who have seen the Nemo movie will like finding the clownfish.  And Adults will be able to point at the animals and help children exercise their memories in recalling during subsequent readings what they've been taught. 

This is just a great little boardbook. 

Pam~


DOTTIE DOLPHIN PLAYS HIDE-AND-SEEK
by Maurice Pledger

Reading Information:
Page Count:  16
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