If you own E. Carle's "Brown Bear" You Will NOT Want This Bk

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	• I Went Walking Sue Williams Red Wagon Books, 1996 - 30 pages average customer review:based on 20 reviews view larger image
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If you own E. Carle's "Brown Bear" You Will NOT Want This Bk

This book is cute however the text is nearly identical to E. Carle's "Brown Bear". I returned this book only because we owned the other already.

This book is a treasure

I discovered "I Went Walking" when I taught first grade. It was a part of their literature series early in the year. I have no children of my own and I own both the board book and the paperback edition of this book because I love the illustrations and the rhythmical quality of the text. As someone who has professionally worked with children ages 2-12, I find that this kind of text is invaluable to early readers (ages 2-7). Children can easily pick up on the patterns in the sentences and begin developing many pre-reading skills (like being able to identify the left to right movement of written sentences). To find books that your young child will want to read over and over again is a jewel in their literacy development. To find books like this that you will want to read over and over again with your child is a treasure box of time shared!

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I Went Walking

I went walking is a favorite book of my preschool children. The simple repetitive words and the wonderful graphics keep us going back to this book over and over again. I find my children repeating the phrase" I went Walking what did you see..." everywhere we go. A must have for any childs collection of favorite books.

The BEST board book ever!

This book is so sweet. The watercolor paintings are colorful without being brash, and the child and animals are all realistic and yet stylized at the same time. I love how the child is not defined by the story as being a boy or a girl, and that it looks ambiguous enough to be either.

The repetition of the story makes it easy to read and easy for an older child to learn, and yet isn't the kind of repetition that drives parents wild. As the child gets older, you can drop words and let them "fill in the blank" as they look at the pictures to identify both the animals and the animals' colors.

When I was a Nanny my charge and I adored this book and read it at least a hundred times. Now that I am home with my own son, I bought the book for him and he loves it too!

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Get this AND "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See"

Our son loves this book. In his shorthand he calls it "walking" and asks for it regularly when we sit down to read. I read a review that indicated this book is too similar to "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, etc." but I would disagree. Our son likes them both equally but they do not seem interchangeable to him (or to me for that matter). I would also echo the comment that the child character is appealingly ambiquous and could be either gender. The quality of the illustration and the story presented are delightful.

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