Hide-and-Seek Turkeys

Hide-and-Seek Turkeys

by Judith Ross Enderle

and

Stephanie Jacob Gordon

illustrated by Teresa Murfin

Entertaining is how I would best describe this fun picture book. Hide-and-Seek Turkeys is about a group of children perform a play about ten turkeys trying to hide from a fox. Readers can look close at the bold, colorful, and fun illustrations to really see the set and background stage that they put together throughout every page of the book. This book become interactive when each picture describes in detail what the text is saying. The story also helps the young reader practice with counting not only through the context of the story changing and adding a turkey each time, but also through allowing the reader to count the number of turkeys in each illustration. Another unique feature is that the vocabulary is almost all rather common and simple except for the idea that most pages introduces one additional word. This is a great concept because the young reader will know the majority of the context except for the one new vocabulary word. Also each new word fits into a new colonial clothing group such as tricorn hat, britches, and pantaloons. Each picture is also focused around the new word to help readers get a brief sense of what the word is. This book would work well as an book to be read as part of a primary grade colonial times mini-unit.

Intended Age 4-8