Oh, Look!
PreSchool-Grade 1--In this colorful picture book, the veteran author transfers the rhythms and movement of the traditional bear-hunt chant to safer ground. The story is told from the point of view of three farm goats: "Oh, look, we see a fence.… Can't go over it,/can't go under it,/can't go around it… But there's the gate and it's unlocked. Let's go through it!" As two frustrated, barefooted girls in babushkas chase after them, the wayward animals run across a bridge, up a hill, through a pond and mud pile, and finally arrive at a country fair where the funhouse ogre frightens them back along the same path to home. As in her G Is for Goat (Philomel, 2003), Polacco's signature pencil-and-watercolor paintings cascade across the pages, creating festive scenes and bright hues. An appealing introduction for children not yet ready for the author's longer tales.--Gay Lynn Van Vleck, Henrico County Library, Glen Allen, VACopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.