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list price: $12.95
edition:Hardcover
category: Children's Fiction
published: Mar 2017
ISBN:9781550177992
publisher:
Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd.
Description
With bright and bold illustrations of the wild and magical West Coast by celebrated artist Roy Henry Vickers, this sturdy board book will delight babies and toddlers as they begin to experience and recognize the sights and sounds of the natural world. Hello Humpback!, a “first words” book, introduces iconic West Coast animals, from hungry sea otters to hopping orcas, and is sure to become an instant classic.
Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Age:
- 1 to 3
- Grade:
- p
Awards
- Short-listed, Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award
- Short-listed, Foreword Indies Book of the Year Award - Children’s Picture Books
- , Selected for IBBY Canada’s catalogue From Sea to Sea to Sea: Celebrating Indigenous Picture Books, a collection of 100 recommended picture books by Indigenous authors
Editorial Reviews
“... Hello Humpback! serves as an introduction to an area, a culture and an art style, and its contents can likely be appreciated by an audience older than that normally associated with a board book. Highly Recommended.”
— Dave Jenkinson, CM (Volume XXIV, No. 22)
“Graceful, well-constructed rhymes (“Hello humpback/ ocean blue/ chatty raven/ mountain view”) pair with First Nations artist Vickers’s crisp, luminous scenes, with animals drawn in the bold, abstracted style of the region’s indigenous artists. ...It’s a gorgeous glimpse of the distinctive landscapes and creatures of the Northwest, and it will enchant residents and nonlocals alike.”
— Publishers Weekly
“Each page of brilliant art has a little bit of texture, so that toddlers can feel the pictures as well as look at them. It’s a beautiful little book for the very youngest of little ones.”
— Vancouver Sun
