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Born in Hong Kong; immigrated to United States.
EDUCATION:Parsons, the New School of Design, B.F.A. (illustration).
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Illustrator. Worked as a graphic designer and art director; freelance illustrator.
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Creator of mini-comics. Contributor to periodicals, including High Five and Highlights for Children.
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PERIODICALS
Kirkus Reviews, September 15, 2009, review of The Great Reindeer Rebellion.
School Library Journal, November, 2008, Martha Simpson, review of The Haunted Ghoul Bus, p. 102; October, 2009, Mara Alpert, review of The Great Reindeer Rebellion, p. 84.
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Jannie Ho website, http://www.chickengirldesign.com (June 26, 2020).
For illustration assignments, please contact my agent:
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Hello! My name is Jannie Ho (pronounced Jane-nee) and I'm an illustrator specializing in the children's market, with my work appearing in both trade and educational books, magazines, toys, crafts and digital media. I'm currently based out of Boston, MA. I'm also known as Chicken Girl.
I received my BFA in illustration at Parsons The New School of Design in New York. After graduating, I worked as an in-house graphic designer at Nickelodeon, Scholastic, and an art director at TIME Magazine for Kids. I left to pursue illustrating full time and haven't stopped drawing since.
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Target• HarperCollins• Little Brown & Co. • Viking• Sterling• Scholastic• Toys R Us• Penguin• American Greetings• Mudpuppy• Oxford University Press• Cartwheel Books• Peaceable Kingdom Press• Highlights for Children• High Five Magazine• Walter Foster Publishing• Kindermusik• Colorbok• American Public Works Association• Nosy Crow• Old Navy• Running Press Kids• Creative Teaching Press• TIME Magazine for Kids• Diabetic Living Magazine• and many more!
Born in Hong Kong and raised in Philadelphia, Jannie studied at Parsons School of Design in New York. After working as a graphic designer and an art director at Nickelodeon, Scholastic, and TIME Magazine for Kids, she decided that illustration was her true calling. Jannie (also known as Chicken Girl) now specialises in illustrating for the children’s market, with her work appearing in both trade and educational books, magazines, toys, crafts and digital media. She lives with her husband and daughter in Boston.
Born in Hong Kong and raised in Philadephia, Jannie Ho received her BFA in illustration from Parsons School of Design in New York. After graduating, she worked as an in-house graphic designer at Nickelodeon, Scholastic, and an art director at TIME Magazine for Kids. Jannie is the author/illustrator of the picture book Bear and Chicken, and has illustrated numerous board and novelty books. Her artwork also appears in toys, stationery, and digital media. Jannie lives with her family near Boston, MA. Visit her at www.JannieHo.com
BROWSE: 2018 JANUARY 12 HOW JANNIE HO ILLUSTRATED HER NEW PICTURE BOOK ‘BEAR AND CHICKEN’ RSS SUBSCRIBE
How Jannie Ho Illustrated Her New Picture Book ‘Bear and Chicken’
Jannie Ho's final page artwork from “Bear and Chicken." (Courtesy of the artist)
ARTJANUARY 12, 2018 Greg Cook 0
Having illustrated more than 60 picture books—from “The Great Reindeer Rebellion” and “What Does Cow Say?” to “Road Work Ahead” and “Bunny and Bird Are Best Friends”—Jannie Ho describes her style as “fun. It’s very character driven. I’m inspired by a very graphic look and a vintage look at the same time.”
The Needham artist and author favors anthropomorphic animal characters and creating spaces and filling them with all sorts of characters and things. “I do like all the little details because I do love books where you can stay in a piece of art and get immersed in the world,” she says.
Jannie Ho. (Courtesy of the artist)
Jannie Ho. (Courtesy of the artist)
Ho has two new books: “Bear and Chicken,” which was published by Running Press Kids in November (“When Bear finds a chicken frozen in the winter snow, he brings it home to try to defrost it. As Chicken thaws—um, awakens—he fears that Bear is actually prepping to eat him.”) and “Chicks In the Barn,” out Jan. 16 from Little Bee Books (the children’s song “The Wheels on the Bus” rewritten to sing about barn animals).
She reads from her work at Brookline Booksmith in Brookline at 10:30 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 14, and then with Cambridge author Alison Goldberg (“I Love You for Miles and Miles”) at Newtonville Books in Newton at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 27.
Jannie Ho's "The Chicks in the Barn." (Courtesy of the artist)
Jannie Ho’s “The Chicks in the Barn.” (Courtesy of the artist)
Ho was born in Hong Kong, moved to Philadelphia when she was 9, then went to New York to study illustration at Parsons School of Design, graduating in 1999. Her first job was designing textiles for a children’s wear company. Then she worked as a graphic designer for Nickelodeon Magazine and Scholastic Book Club and as an art director for Time Magazine for Kids.
“In the meantime, I was working on my illustration again,” Ho says. “I got an agent and that’s when I was kind of leading a double life—art director by day, illustrator at night.” That was until about a decade ago, when her first two picture books were published—“The Penguins’ Perfect Picnic” (“It’s the perfect day for a picnic, so the penguins pack their things and go. But when the weather turns bad, the penguins find out what it really means to have the perfect picnic.”) and “The Mixed Up Alphabet”— and she left Time to pursue illustration full-time.
I recently spoke to Ho about how she created “Bear and Chicken,” the first book that she not only illustrated, but authored as well. “It’s my baby,” she says.
Jannie Ho's pencil sketch for a page from “Bear and Chicken." (Courtesy of the artist)
Jannie Ho’s pencil sketch for a page from “Bear and Chicken.” (Courtesy of the artist)
Pencil Sketch
Among the first steps in creating “Bear and Chicken,” Ho says, was drafting “little thumbnails I did using pencil and paper.”
“The two characters came to me when I still had a Blogspot account on my blog and I made a header with these two characters,” she says.
The bear and chicken resonated with her audience. She’s long had a thing for chickens (“I love chickens,” she says), including naming her website ChickenGirlDesign.
When she needed to create a new header, she featured the critters again. “A lot of people commented again: “These characters need to have their own story,” she recalls. She expanded the idea in her contribution to a sequential art exhibit and then this book.
Why was the Chicken out in the snow? “When I was writing this story, I spent a lot of time trying to explain that situation,” Ho acknowledges. “It actually made the story very complicated.” So she got rid of the setup, but if you want to know, her idea is that Chicken ended up in the snow because she was “visiting a friend and this not being her place to be, so she got lost.”
Much of Ho’s work is done digitally. But she likes to begin in pencil, which gives her the flexibility to make changes if needed and to try to keep her art from getting too precious.“Author-illustrators, we just love to jump into the art,” she says. “We will work the art to death and if it doesn’t serve the story we don’t want to let go of the art.”
Jannie Ho's grayscale Illustrator sketch for a page from “Bear and Chicken." (Courtesy of the artist)
Jannie Ho’s grayscale Illustrator sketch for a page from “Bear and Chicken.” (Courtesy of the artist)
Grayscale Sketch
Ho’s next step is to make a sketch in grays directly in the Adobe Illustrator graphic design program. “Illustrator is all vector based,” Ho says. “It’s basically a series of shapes, shapes building on shapes building on shapes. The great thing about illustrator is I can scale things up and down and it’s not going to lose it resolution. … You can easily move things around. To that helps me with the layout, the composition.”
“The trees are not well developed,” she notes. But it’s “a little bit more polished and a sense of what I want to do.”
Jannie Ho's grayscale dummy page from “Bear and Chicken." (Courtesy of the artist)
Jannie Ho’s grayscale dummy page from “Bear and Chicken.” (Courtesy of the artist)
Grayscale Book Dummy
As Ho develops the grayscale sketches for the book, she prints out a dummy, or model of the planned book. “To assemble an actual book really helps” she says. It gives her sense of how the images relate to each other as one turns from one page to the next. “It’s very rough, but obviously somewhat worked out.”
Jannie Ho's color dummy page from “Bear and Chicken." (Courtesy of the artist)
Jannie Ho’s color dummy page from “Bear and Chicken.” (Courtesy of the artist)
Color Book Dummy
“As I move to color, I make another mockup with the color pages, with the Post-its on top because I’m still rewriting the text,” Ho says. She’s beginning to add tree bark and shadows.
“Bear and Chicken” is an example of her “trying to age up my work, to do a little bit older books.” For books for the littlest kids, publishers tend to want green grass and blue skies, she says. Basics. “They want everything very bright.”
A sign of how she’s trying to speak to a bit older kids here is her color palette, “a little bit more muddy colors, a little bit more neutral colors. … A little bit older. Like Bear’s shirt on the cover is a little bit more muddy blue. If it was for a board book, it would be this bright blue, this clearer blue.”
Jannie Ho's final page artwork from “Bear and Chicken." (Courtesy of the artist)
Jannie Ho’s final page artwork from “Bear and Chicken.” (Courtesy of the artist)
Final Artwork
In the final page artwork, Ho has changed the color of the sky and added a cardinal perched in the tree.
“I like to add a little bit of detail that’s not mentioned in the text,” she says. “The fun part of being an illustrator is adding something not in the text that doesn’t take away from the story. … Kids like to find the little details. They like to find out. It’s like a little secret.”
Why is the chicken so afraid that the bear will eat her? “The bear’s a lot bigger than the chicken, but it’s a happy story in the end.” (Spoiler: They become friends.)
Is the chicken in the story a sort of alter ego for Ho?
“It was before. But I don’t know if she is now,” Ho says. “It’s very comforting to draw myself as a chicken. I’ve done a comic in the past of my experience of moving from New York City to Michigan for three years. I drew myself as a chicken and my husband as a rooster.”
Also, the couple’s daughter has just turned 6. Ho says, “We call her nugget”—as in chicken nugget—“or nuggie for short.”
Born in Hong Kong and raised in Philadelphia, Jannie moved to New York to study illustration at Parsons School of Design. After working as a graphic designer and an art director at many fun places such as Nickelodeon, Scholastic, and TIME Magazine for Kids, she decided that illustration was her true calling. Jannie (also known as Chicken Girl) now specializes in illustrating for the children’s market, with her work appearing in both trade and educational books, magazines, toys, crafts and digital media. She currently works and plays in Boston, MA with her husband and daughter.
Below are Jannie's most recent projects, Watch Me Read and Draw series (Walter Foster Jr), Peep On a Perch (Peeps) by Andrea Posner-Sanchez (Random House), Mudpuppy's 4-IN-A-BOX Puzzle set, The Chicks in the Barn by Aly Fronis (little bee books), Bear And Chicken (Running Press), Transportation My Very Long Puzzle, Where's the Bear? - The Hide-and-Find Stacking Block Game (Peaceable Kingdom), Stuck on FunChristmas & Halloween ABC (Nosy Crow Ltd), Mudpuppy puzzle play set, Color-in paper Puzzles, Ludattica puzzles: Dinosaurs, Pirate Ship, The Farm, If You're Spooky and You Know It by Aly Fronis (little bee books), Space Explorers Jumbo Puzzle & Airplane Puzzle To Go (Mudpuppy), Cutie Pie Looks for the Easter Bunny, Wickle Woo has a Halloween Party, Snuggle Puppy looks for the perfect hug and Roly Poly looks for Santa Claus (nosy crow), Halloween ABCs was licensed to Pottery Barn Kids collection, Violet Rose's Sticker Activity Book (Nosy Crow Ltd), First Skills sticker activity books series (Scholastic Press), Pumpkin Pie Math Game (Scholastic), Pop-up and Play Farm by Maggie Bateson (Campbell Books), POOKIE POP PLAYS HIDE-AND-SEEK!, LITTLE BUBBA LOOKS FOR HIS ELEPHANT!, BUNNY BOO HAS LOST HER TEDDY! & TEENY WEENY LOOKS FOR HIS MUMMY! (nosy crow), Muddle Zoo (Barron's Educational), On the Road 12 Piece Puzzle (Mudpuppy), Let's Play! Sunny Farm & On the Farm Sticker kits by Peaceable Kingdom, Funny Faces: Dressing Up & On the Farm (Campbell), The Great Chritmas Crisis by Kim Norman (Sterling Children's Books), Road Work Ahead by Anastasia Suen (Viking Juvenile), The ABC Song App for iphone, ipad, and ipod touch by Curious Puppy, Muddle London (Magnetic Play Book) (Campbell), What Does Cow Say? written by Joan Holub (Cartwheel Books), You Can Draw Zoo Animals & You Can Draw Monsters and Other Scary Things (Picture Window Books), a 48-piece Fun Facts Puzzle: Under the Sea created for Silver Dolphin Books. Halloween Howlers: Frightfully Funny Knock-Knock Jokes written by Michael Teitelbaum (HarperFestival), Gift Card created for Target, and The Haunted Ghoul Bus & The Great Reindeer Rebellion by Lisa Trumbauer (Sterling).
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Teitelbaum, Michael HALLOWEEN HOWLERS HarperFestival (Adult Picture Books) $6.99 8, 1 ISBN: 978-0-06-180891-3
"Knock, knock! / Who's there? / Ghouls! / Ghouls who? / Ghouls and boys both love Halloween!" And many kids love knock-knock jokes and cannot get enough of them.
Teitelbaum comes through with this holiday collection of 28 jokes utilizing classic knock-knock form with wordplay and puns. Ho chooses to cast this series of jokes into a loose story of a girl and boy first preparing for Halloween and then having various adventures during Halloween night. As the two go from one activity and joke to the next, the format remains fairly consistent, with four jokes per double-page spread. A repeated lift-the-flap feature dedicated to a couple of the jokes on each spread as an interactive element as well as a chance for independent readers to guess the answer. Each flap has a unique shape and location on the page, and readers' eyes automatically jump to those parts of the book. This helps to create an enjoyable apprehension as readers turn the page. What is hidden there? Ho takes full advantage of the flaps, creating visual sleights of hand. The top of the flap leads readers to anticipate one answer to the joke, but often unexpected punch lines lurk below.
Have this at the ready for a quick dose of gentle Halloween humor. (Early reader. 5-8)
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"Teitelbaum, Michael: HALLOWEEN HOWLERS." Kirkus Reviews, 1 Aug. 2011. Gale General OneFile, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A262821447/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=9db39ca2. Accessed 26 Feb. 2020.
HO, Jannie. Bear and Chicken. illus. by Jannie Ho. 32p. Running Pr. Nov. 2017. Tr $16.99. ISBN 9780762462667.
PreS-Gr 1--Two animals have a chance encounter and one starts to think about eating the other--or does he? Children will love it when they are kept in delicious suspense because they can't decide if one character is going to end up in the stew pot. Ho creates this tension in her latest picture book. It is wintertime, and Bear discovers Chicken in the snowy woods. To his dismay, the chicken appears to be frozen solid. He rushes the fowl into his house, where he proceeds to start a fire and make soup. However, when Chicken awakes from his frozen slumber, the details he notices are enough to send shivers down his spine--a sharp cleaver, a very large stew pot, a recipe that may or may not call for chicken, and a bear with sharp teeth when he smiles. Chicken's panicked flight and eventual confrontation with Bear finally clarify the situation; Bear was just making vegetable soup and hoping to make a new friend! Ho's bright, charming illustrations are reminiscent of the artwork in Little Golden Books as they suggest a sweetness and innocence in the characters. The story ends with a recipe for vegetable soup and a reminder that real black bears are largely vegetarians. VERDICT An enjoyable read-aloud for young elementary-aged children. Perfect for one-on-one or small group sharing.--Sally James, South Hillsborough Elementary School, CA
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James, Sally. "HO, Jannie. Bear and Chicken." School Library Journal, vol. 63, no. 11, Nov. 2017, p. 61+. Gale General OneFile, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A513759584/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=69647e5a. Accessed 26 Feb. 2020.
Norman, Kim THE GREAT CHRISTMAS CRISIS Sterling (Children's Picture Books) $14.95 10, 2 ISBN: 978-1-4027-8632-7
Another story in a long string of similar tales about difficulties with the elf staff at the North Pole. This time the elves are "bickering, / blaming and bleating" due to mechanical difficulties and supply shortages. Santa Claus goes on an undercover research mission in the workshop by shrinking himself down to elf size (though he doesn't bother to change his suit from red to green). He finds that the elves are suffering from pressure to work faster from their zealous foreman. Santa institutes a more relaxed pace with massages and joke-telling sessions, but then the staff falls even further behind. At the suggestion of Mrs. Claus, they use their chimney enlarger machine to stretch out the days before Christmas to get their work done. A large format with heavy, coated pages implies quite a young audience, but the concepts of a heavy workload leading to stress and time expansion are more suited to an older audience. Computer-generated illustrations provide amusing views of the busy elves, including both male and female helpers of many skin tones. The story is told in cleverly rhymed quatrains set in curved text blocks that flow within the illustrations in a pleasing manner. These overworked elves don't crack any new ice, but their story is entertaining enough for holiday reading in those busy days before Santa's arrival. (Picture book. 3-7)
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"Norman, Kim: THE GREAT CHRISTMAS CRISIS." Kirkus Reviews, 1 Sept. 2012. Gale General OneFile, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A301262542/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=17989f77. Accessed 26 Feb. 2020.
Ho, Jannie VEHICLES ABC Nosy Crow/Candlewick (Children's Informational) $6.99 12, 24 ISBN: 978-1-5362-0815-3
An alphabet-based vocabulary builder organized on the theme of "things that go."
It's tough rating one book of this sort "outstanding" in contrast to the countless similar offerings on the market, but this one rates at least a "pretty good." The presentation is appealing in its simplicity. Each of the 26 pages features its respective letter in both upper- and lowercase; these are hand-lettered in a blocky print and colored to contrast with the background. Each letter appears with a vehicle, name clearly printed on the page; in all but one case, the vehicle begins with the corresponding letter. The bright, colorful artwork is not particularly realistic, but it hits all the right signals for easy recognition by toddlers. All of the old favorites are featured: ambulance, bulldozer, digger, and helicopter, for example, but part of the book's appeal is in its thoughtful vocabulary-expanding selections as well. Cc is for "carriage," for example, Ee is for "electric car," and Gg is for "galleon," for example. Many of the vehicles are alphabetized by modifiers that denote function ("ice-cream truck"), appearance ("jumbo jet"), or ownership ("naval ship"). Wondering about Qq and Xx? Think "Queen Mary" (the ship, not the monarch) and "express train" (the only vehicle whose name doesn't begin with the letter it illustrates).
A well-curated things-that-go abecederary. (Board book. 1-3)
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"Ho, Jannie: VEHICLES ABC." Kirkus Reviews, 15 Jan. 2020. Gale General OneFile, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A611140175/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=ffb824a4. Accessed 26 Feb. 2020.
Ho, Jannie BEAR AND CHICKEN Running Press Kids (Children's Fiction) $16.99 11, 14 ISBN: 978-0-7624-6266-7
When Bear says he's having chicken for lunch, what exactly does he mean?One very cold day, as Bear is taking his morning walk, he sees a chicken frozen in the snow. As he carries the chicken to the warmth of his home, he wonders about the best way to defrost a chicken, then "burrito-wraps" it in a blanket in front of the roaring fire. This works, though Chicken, whose first sight upon awaking is sharp teeth, is immediately alarmed. But Bear is as friendly as can be. "Hello there," he says. "You're just in time." Chicken wonders, "In time for what?" Bear brings out a big pot, fills it with water, and sets it on the stove to boil. Bear is going to make Chicken into lunch! Chicken makes a clumsy run for it, out into the snow and zigzagging through the trees. Bear pursues, carrying Chicken's bindle and expressing his concern that Chicken is leaving without lunch--which is vegetable soup. Ho's simple, humorous story provides a gentle lesson on prejudice and friendship; her illustrations are bright and basic, and Bear's teeth are visible only in Chicken's imagination. Readers in vegetarian households or those unfamiliar with the cooking terminology used in the text may be several steps behind Chicken, but they will still probably find the tale a funny one. There's also a recipe for Bear's vegetable soup and an informational note about "mostly vegetarian" black bears. A sweet tale of expectations upended. (Picture book. 3-6)
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"Ho, Jannie: BEAR AND CHICKEN." Kirkus Reviews, 15 Aug. 2017. Gale General OneFile, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A500364792/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=0f36813e. Accessed 26 Feb. 2020.
Fronis, Aly IF YOU'RE SPOOKY AND YOU KNOW IT Little Bee (Children's Picture Books) $5.99 7, 26 ISBN: 978-1-4998-0165-1
The classic movement song gets a thrilling twist.Nearly every child in America knows the song "If You're Happy and You Know It," and most enjoy clapping hands, stomping feet, and spinning around to its rhythm. This board book adapts that rhythm and filters it through the creepy hues of Halloween. Verses include "If you're spooky and you know, it clap your hands," "If you're naughty and you know it, snap your fingers," and "If you're hairy and you know it, jump up and down!" Each verse is accompanied by an illustration of different traditional Halloween monsters, including vampires, werewolves, and mummies, getting in on the fun. It's unclear whether the double-page spreads include multiple iterations of one monster or several separate, identical monsters. Little readers who are developmentally inclined to believe the latter may be confused when they reach the final double-page spread, which features one each of all the adorable monsters at one big Halloween party dancing together. The illustrations are colored with the usual green, purple, and orange-heavy scheme most Halloween books employ. Adults looking for an amusing way to introduce small children to the tricks and treats of Halloween will find this mostly fills the bill. A delightfully creepy spin on an old favorite. (Board book. 1-3)
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"Fronis, Aly: IF YOU'RE SPOOKY AND YOU KNOW IT." Kirkus Reviews, 1 Jan. 2017. Gale General OneFile, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A475357214/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=45493125. Accessed 26 Feb. 2020.
Nosy Crow POOKIE POP PLAYS HIDE-AND-SEEK Nosy Crow/Candlewick (Children's Picture Books) $7.99 2, 24 ISBN: 978-0-7636-7600-1
The familiar game played with sturdy pull tabs. Pookie Pop, a cartoon-style kitty, is looking for her animal friends. Using the same format as Cutie Pie Looks for the Easter Bunny (2015), Ho's cheerful, anthropomorphic animals appear when sturdy tabs are pulled. Young children will quickly chime in on the "found you" refrain as each friend is discovered. The animals included have no relationship in real life--being from every continent and looking more like stuffed animals than the real things. This is a vocabulary builder, with both common creatures and such exotic animals as rhino, toucan, and koala waiting to be found. The birthday party at the end is a happy surprise, though curiously, only six of the 12 animals found are shown gathered around the table. The rounded tabs are sandwiched between thick board pages. Toddlers firmly grasping the page may have trouble getting the tab to slide, but once they discover the reward of a cute creature hiding, they will learn to hold the page gently. The half-circle tabs are less prone to fraying than smaller, square-edged tabs. A happy book that should stand up to substantial toddler abuse. (Board book. 1-3)
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"Nosy Crow: POOKIE POP PLAYS HIDE-AND-SEEK." Kirkus Reviews, 1 July 2015. Gale General OneFile, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A419698266/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=b4a526a4. Accessed 26 Feb. 2020.
Ho, Jannie LITTLE BUBBA LOOKS FOR HIS ELEPHANT Nosy Crow/Candlewick (Children's Picture Books) $7.99 8, 5 ISBN: 978-0-7636-7401-4
This Tiny Tab book offers toddlers a playful interactive game of hide-and-seek with substantial, oversized tabs. Elly, Little Bubba's toy elephant, has gone missing at her boy's multispecies preschool, and the little frog must search the classroom to find her. Four large, semicircular tabs poke out from the side and top of the book, partially hiding the faces of his fellow animal classmates. Once pulled, the tabs reveal the entire creature and another friend or toy that is hiding in a die-cut section at the center of the page. Mrs. Jones, Bubba's hippo teacher, suggests the frog check his bag, and Elly and Bubba are joyfully reunited. Ho's cheery, digitally created cartoons will engage youngsters and offer a tour of preschool to the uninitiated to boot. Publishing simultaneously is Wickle Woo Has a Halloween Party, in which an owl host must find the fancy-dressed guests attending his Halloween bash. It's full of equally satisfying interaction, although some of the costumed critters may be difficult for the youngest toddlers to recognize. Sturdy, engaging fun. (Board book. 1-3)
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"Ho, Jannie: LITTLE BUBBA LOOKS FOR HIS ELEPHANT." Kirkus Reviews, 1 Jan. 2015. Gale General OneFile, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A395222311/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=2f15bacf. Accessed 26 Feb. 2020.
Nosy Crow TEENY WEENY LOOKS FOR HIS MOMMY Nosy Crow/Candlewick (Children's Picture Books) $7.99 2, 11 ISBN: 978-0-7636-7273-7
This engaging, interactive offering features Teeny Weeny, an adorable little mouse in search of his mother.Four large, round tabs depicting different animals poke out of this sturdy little title from the top and side, providing an interesting profile and the promise of interactivity right from the start. Teeny Weeny first looks for Mommy behind a tree, but she's not there. When the tab--easily grasped by little hands--is pulled out, readers find a cat hiding there instead. Teeny next checks for Mommy in a pirate ship. Pulling the tab here reveals a crocodile, but that's not all; the motion also opens two portals in the ship, uncovering both Dog and Pig. Push Crocodile back into place, and Dog and Pig are hidden once again. A determined Teeny finds many other hidden animals as he looks for Mommy in the flowers and the playhouse, behind the wall and in a tree before finally finding her behind a picnic basket filled with goodies. Companion title Bunny Boo Has Lost Her Teddy is filled with similar surprises and another comforting conclusion.The simple lost-and-found storyline, cheery illustrations and easy-to-manipulate tabs will make this interactive title a tot favorite. (Board book. 1-3)
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"Nosy Crow: TEENY WEENY LOOKS FOR HIS MOMMY." Kirkus Reviews, 1 July 2014. Gale General OneFile, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A373030123/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=6d5ccbe0. Accessed 26 Feb. 2020.
Ho, Jannie GUESS WHO? Cartwheel/Scholastic (Children's Picture Books) $7.99 6, 25 ISBN: 978-0-545-49331-4
With die-cut holes for eyes and handles, readers can hold this board book, in its open state, up to their faces to create a variety of costumed personas. Among the featured creatures are a robot, a superhero and a witch in the interior and a mummy on the cover. The characters are given a couple of lines of dialogue to announce their identities and make their signature sounds or statements: "I'm a proud pirate! / Ahoy there!" Each face has one rather delicate pop-up facial feature or accessory, such as the witch's protruding nose and the superhero's mask, which will likely not withstand extensive, rambunctious play. Ho's cheery, smiling cartoons in bold colors imbue the title with a lively energy. While the cover does portray a spooky spider and an orange-and-black color scheme, this title could easily stretch beyond the Halloween season. Children old enough not to be frightened by masks should get a kick out of this. (Board book. 2-4)
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"Ho, Jannie: GUESS WHO?" Kirkus Reviews, 1 July 2013. Gale General OneFile, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A335276891/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=7bf141a7. Accessed 26 Feb. 2020.