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Summary: I Went Walking
Review: A "must have" if you have 8-36 month old!! My 14 month old daughter loves the pics and now knows every animal. Wonderful ending too!
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Summary: College student
Review: A young child goes for a walk. This story has repetitive rhyme for the very young child. The child first sees a black cat. As he walks, he sees a variety of animals. The cat follows him, as well as the other animals. He or she meets: a brown horse, a red cow, a green duck, a pink pig and a yellow dog. In the story, the child is missing one shoe as he meets the pig. Each time a partial glimpse of the animal is shown in the illustrations. The reader can play a guessing game.
The child is not defined by the story as being a boy or a girl. I wanted to know. Children memorize the book as they read it over and over again. Memorization is the first stage of reading. The illustrations were beautiful. The text didn't have much meaning as far as the plot goes.
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Summary: Perfect for Big Book usage
Review: I developed a lesson plan for 1st grade students using the big book version of this book. The "what is coming next" theme of the book is perfect for young children to form predictions.
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Summary: Perfect for Big Book usage
Review: 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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Summary: This book is a treasure
Review: 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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Summary: A book for all
Review: My 18month boy old loves this book and I don't mind reading it over and over. The words are rhythmic the illustrations artistic. This is a book that no adult or child will tire of.
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Summary: Great book!!
Review: My 20 month old loves this book and has for months now..It goes great with Let's Go Visiting by the same author..Worth adding to any library!!!
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Summary: Get this AND "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See"
Review: 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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Summary: If you own E. Carle's "Brown Bear" You Will NOT Want This Bk
Review: 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.
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Summary: The BEST board book ever!
Review: 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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