Review: Tug of War -- a beautiful book for young children with an important lesson about perseverance
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 4, 2014
Tug of War is a terrific book for toddlers and young children that will both entertain them over and over again as it teaches them an important lesson about perseverance in life! Grownups can happily bond with small kids as they read this book together and the vocabularies of young children will be enhanced as they read this book. I should note that the author, Luke Visagie, uses rhyme along the way in this book and rhyme is one of my very favorite ways of writing for young children. The photos (also by Luke Visagie) that accompany the text are excellent and Maja Dezulovic has done an excellent editing job as well! I love it!The story focuses on two dogs, Leeto and Patches. Leeto and Patches “love to play” with toys and they especially enjoy playing tug of war with a toy. We see that while Patches “is big and strong” and while Leeto “is small and meek” their tug of war play type of fight is actually pretty intense because while Leeto is indeed smaller than Patches Leeto is not about to just give up easily without a strong fight. Of course, you may be able to figure out which dog will ultimately win the playful contest but I’ll leave that out to avoid spoiling it for you! Suffice it to say that the rest of the story will captivate toddlers and small children alike and that’s grand.I highly recommend this book for toddlers and young children especially those of them who are just learning to read and appreciate rhyming text. As I mentioned above, the excellent and beautiful photographs that go with the story greatly enhance the book as well. Please, Luke and Maja, keep these wonderful children’s books coming—I only wish I had such wonderful children’s books when I was a young kid!