Wiggle

Wiggle By Doreen Cronin and Illustrations by Scott Menchin

This is such a cute book! I liked this book because of the illustrations. There is a conglomeration of different medias. Some pages have hints of real life photographs such as alarm clocks, grass, and butterflies. The rest of the page however, is done in a digital cartoon type of imaging. They balance each other out, and it is a neat idea to mix the two.

The book is simple book about a dog who loves to move around and wiggle. It is about his day wiggling around, from the time he wakes up in the morning to him going to bed at night. Throughout his day he wiggles with his breakfast, wiggles with his toys, and wiggles with gorillas. This is a very lighthearted, fun book. It would be great for a break in the school day to get the kids wiggles out after lunch possibly before they get back to their school work. It could easily be an interactive book, where the kids follow along with the dogs wiggles. The text changes with each page depending on what is going on. It is mostly always black, but some are bolded, some are large, and some are small. Every time the word wiggle is printed, it is larger than the other words on the page to make it more emphasized. I really enjoyed looking at the illustrations of this book.