Tap Tap Boom Boom
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4.1 • 20 Ratings
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
Features an audio read-along! The clouds are gathering above a city street and soon — tap, tap, boom, boom! As a thunderstorm rolls in, people of all stripes race down to the subway to get away from the crackling rain and wind. With quirky wordplay and infectious rhymes, Elizabeth Bluemle crystallizes an unexpected moment of community, while G. Brian Karas’s warm illustrations show the smiles to be had when a storm brings strangers together as friends.
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In toe-tapping, jazz-chant verse, author, bookseller, and PW blogger Bluemle (How Do You Wokka-Wokka?) writes about the way a sudden thunderstorm "makes friends/ of strangers." At the story's start, two boys in a playground gaze through iron railings at a girl in a yellow dress hurrying to keep up with her father. On an ordinary day she'd disappear into the crowd, but when the rain starts pelting down, the boys, the girl and her father, and half a dozen others dash for the subway station: "Feet wetter?/ You'd better/ go down/ underground,/ where the water/can't getcha./ You betcha." Over photographic images of subway fixtures, Karas (The Apple Orchard Riddle) draws people chatting, sharing pizza, and shrinking away as their dogs shake themselves off, balancing the force of the storm with the warmth of city-dwellers sharing an unexpected break in their day. Bluemle's story unfolds on a scale just right for preschoolers, with plenty of hullaballoo, subtle attention to the senses, and an affirmation of the way misfortune can lead to small miracles. Ages 3 7.
Customer Reviews
A fun, easy and quick read.
Tap Tap Boom Boom was a decent book. I’ve read it many times to children who are non-native English speakers. They were able to follow along quite easily without getting lost. Kids, all around, will find this book relatable. Though the story is quite simple, one can think of questions to use for dialogue.
Fantastic!
Unlike most things you read to kids! This is marvelous and in written in incredible verse. Just lovely. My kid walks around saying Tap TAP! Boom BOOM!