Pat a Cake

Description

This lively board book marks the debut of Handprint's "Nursery Play-Along Classics." This just-right-for-lap-time title features not only whimsical illustration and full text of a nursery favorite, but also an engaging picture-story expanding on the verse, and clear visual instructions to allow a parent to actively share the material in delightful, playful interludes with young listeners.Our earliest awareness of language often comes from chanting beloved nursery rhymes. Equally important, they provide hours of funto recite, to act out, to extend into imaginative stories. The "Nursery Play-Along Classics," illuminated in soft pencil and pastel hues, are the perfect and most enjoyable way to introduce these essential texts to babies and young toddlers.

R. A. Herman has worked in children's publishing at a major New York publishing house. Today she is a writer and an artists' representative in New York City, where she both lives and works. Aleksey & Olga Ivanov are a husband-and-wife illustrating team who came to the United States from Russia, where they were well-established children's book illustrators. They are continuing their careers from Denver, Colorado, where they chose to live becau