Product Description

Learn about colors as Kipper paints a messy purple monster. Find out about the weather as Kipper basks in the sun. Discover numbers and count how many friends make ten. See what fun opposites can be when Kipper makes short work of a long stick. Mick Inkpen's gently humorous books are sure to be favorites with any young child just learning about the world. Full color. Baby-preschool.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #259270 in Books
• Published on: 1995-04-24
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 28 pages

From School Library Journal
PreSchool-K?Lovable Kipper is back, this time in four concept books. The beauty of these titles is in their simplicity?bright primary colors and simple forms make them very appealing. In Colors, the brown-and-white dog flies a blue kite and eats red strawberries. In Numbers, he feeds four hens and digs holes with six moles. Opposites captures the happy-faced pup with a big balloon and his sad expression when it pops. Weather shows him basking in the sun and splashing in the rain. The lively watercolor illustrations lend themselves to simple one-on-one interaction or to use in toddler story hour. While concept books abound, Inkpen's engaging character and clear, clean presentations make these charming offerings stand above the crowd.?Helen Rosenberg, Chicago Public Library, IL
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About the Author
MICK INKPEN's books starring Kipper have sold millions of copies worldwide and have been translated into more than twenty languages. His more recent titles include Kipper's A to Z, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year and an ABA's Pick of the Lists, and Kipper and Roly. Mr. Inkpen lives in Suffolk, England.

Customer Reviews

As simple as the cartoon series
This book is so simple it can be described as twenty pages, ten words, and lots of white space.

So why, you may ask, is it worth five big stars?

For one, the illustrations are big, bright, fun, fully representative of the color being shown, and are all of Kipper the Dog.

For two, it is suitable from birth to first reading, as it's never too early to start your child on the reading track.

For three, it's the first book my four year old has read on his own, spelling the letters, sounding it out, and then proudly coming up with the right words. That makes it priceless.

My one teeny tiny little gripe is that the style of lettering used for those important ten words is different to what is being taught in nursery school. The "a" that he learned is more like a circle with a stroke, the "g" in the book is the one with the closed loop at the bottom, and the "W" in the book looks like two overlapping "V"s. However, after we explained that some letters can look different sometimes, he had no problems whatsoever.

Deceptively simple but fiendishly clever.

Amanda Richards, April 10, 2005

First book my younger son really fell in love with
This whole little series of books (opposites, weather, colors and numbers) is really well done, but this one is special to me as it's the first book my younger son (age 2) has really fallen in love with. He took it into his nap with him today! He loves best the page about orange, where Kipper is drinking what looks like orange soda with a very long crazy straw. I like the teddy bear page for brown, with all shapes of cute teddy bears! I'm glad the TV show led us to Kipper books!

This is a wonderfully illustrated book!
This book has wonderful pictures that really engage children. I especially enjoy the picture for the color "white". Kipper is surrounded in a cloud of flour....my kids (2 1/2 and 5 years old) thought that it was very funny! The book teaches colors in a simple and fun way!