Knick Knack Paddywhack (New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Books (Awards))
Three favorite school chants get the royal treatment from a trio  of children's books veterans. Caldecott Medalist Paul O.  Zelinsky brilliantly reimagines the  song as a boy's daydream,  Knick-Knack Paddywhack!: A Moving Parts Book, with engineering  by Andrew Baron. Youngsters lift a flap to "Give the dog a  bone"; under the flap, the "old man [comes] rolling home" on a  bicycle. The focus of the spread features a boy in striped  pajamas who, when readers tug a pull-tab, reveals the old man  holding the numeral one (and "play[ing] knick-knack" on the  boy's thumb). The final spread shows 10 little old men rolling  down the hillside.-- knick-knack" on the  boy's thumb). The final spread shows 10 little old men rolling  down the hillside.Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.