Make It, Break It - Hardcover

Turnbull, Ann

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670833592 ISBN 13: 9780670833597

Publisher: Viking Juvenile, 1990

Synopsis

Demonstrates the fun in creating things such as sandcastles and cakes, then destroying them, then building them anew

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Its curious title notwithstanding, in only one of the three scenarios included in this book is something made and then broken. In the first pages, a brother and sister are seen at the beach, building a sandcastle that they then raze, jumping on it delightedly. Next, the two are shown picking up a bedroom: "Now our room is clean. Let's play in it!" Finally, the siblings help their mother make a cake. When it is done, the children sit down at a table and eat it. That is the extent of the disappointingly meager story line, which is relayed in unevenly rhymed verse ("Pick up blocks, crayons, puzzles-- / All the toys are in a muddle!"). The book's saving grace is the cheerful art provided by McTaggart, who portrays the two toddler terrorists as round-faced and gently animated. Ages 3-8.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From School Library Journal:

PreSchool-K --A British import told in rhyme that just doesn't make it. In three separate episodes, a boy and girl make a sand castle and jump on it; clean their room and then play in it; and bake a cake and eat it. While the first activity fits the title, the other two are far-fetched connections. The illustrations--charcoal pencil and paint in soft, muted colors--are large and uncluttered and will have certain appeal to preschoolers, but the awkward rhymes (puzzles/muddle, drawer/floor, bowl/all) are jarring and uninspired. This is an attractive book, but a poorly conceived one, and the tenuous link between the action and the book's title will neither prompt discussion nor inspire the imagination.
- Trev Jones, School Library Journal
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Juvenile
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0670833592
• ISBN 13: 9780670833597
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320