Some people like to think that it is easy being a small child, but there are so many mistakes that one can make when one is very young and inexperienced. In today's picture book you will meet a young dodo bird who is constantly putting his rather large feet into it, and we cannot help laughing at the mistakes he makes.
Jennifer Sattler
Picture Book
For ages 4 to 6
Boyds Mills Press, 2013, 978-1-59078-9259-2
Dodo is a little dodo bird who has very large yellow
feet, a little feather dusterish white tail and a large beak. Today he and his
Mama are going for a walk. Dodo’s feet, like the feet of many little birds,
have a mind of their own. Dodo is so taken with how talented his toes are that
he forgets to pay attention to what he is doing and he walks straight into his
mother’s backside.
Dodo sings
loudly for everyone to enjoy, only not everyone is pleased by the noise he is
making. A mama bird who has chicks in her nest angrily shushes him. Next, Dodo
decides to start a “funny-shaped rock collection.” He collects all kinds of
rock like objects, including a knobbly green rock. Dodo soon discovers that the
rock is not a rock at all. It is a tortoise who is not really interested in
being part of any collection.
Just like so
many little children, poor Dodo goes from one uh-oh moment to another as he
follows his mother. Everything he does is well intentioned, but somehow things
go wrong and Dodo ends up in some kind of pickle.
Young children
are going to love the uh-ohs in this book, many of which are sweetly funny.
They will easily connect with the little bird who tries to play with the wrong
animal, hugs the wrong legs, and eventually wears himself out completely.
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