MOMMY: We love Patricelli's illustrations (did you spy the baby in the plane?) and I would have rated this a solid 4 stars.PEANUT: He bumps this up to a solid 5 stars because he loved identifying everything he saw on the pages. The simple illustrations include enough to be interesting but not overwhelming. He likes saying bye bye to all the characters as she swings back down to her daddy. The result is a running commentary from out little one throughout the book. Peanut age 2-3 This is a very simple children’s book for the kids to follow along with and begin to feel like they can read on their own. For the most part the words in the book are all “higher, higher” except for “hi” and “high five” and “bye”. The words are bold and large and the pictures are bright.The story is of a little girl on a swing who wants to be pushed higher and higher. She ends up soaring so High that she sees all sorts of interesting things and eventually ends up in outer space where she meets an alien on a swing, they greet each other and high five before having to say bye. The younger children in my group just love the story as they sit and read it themselves pointing at the words to the other children. Great beginner reader skills! :0)
An author/illustrator duo that understands its toddler audience--simple and silly!
—Jazmine
Such a simple yet fabulous book. Wish I could come up with stuff like this.
—jbains19
So wonderful..
—h2tung
Excellent.
—sarah
