How Many Hugs?
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
All the ways that animals and multi-legged insects give hugs, How Many Hugs? is perfect as a counting picture book and for reading aloud at bedtime!
Centipedes, those crawliest bugs
have 300 legs for giving out hugs.
That's 150 on one side to grasp
and 150 on the other to clasp.
Hugs abound in this celebration of multi-legged animals and insects and their babies! And at the end of the day, human parents can give their little ones as many hugs as they want—with two arms.
Charming art and rhyming text make this a perfect companion to All Kinds of Kisses, also by Heather Swain.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Do more arms mean better hugs? That's the question raised in this lighthearted contemplation of animal intimacy, Swain and Henry's follow-up to All Kinds of Kisses. Starting with appendage-free snakes, Swain moves through the animal kingdoms, highlighting creatures with a growing number of arms, legs, or tentacles. These rhymes can get convoluted as they try to strike a playful note, divide each number in half (since a hug requires two arms), and provide details about each animal: "While nautilus a small secretive squid/ that lives in a chamber where she likes to stay hid / comes out for a squeeze from her ninety long tentacles./ That's forty-five hugs, each one identical." But as a thought experiment, it's charming, as are Henry's smudgy graphics, which feature subtle heart shapes hidden throughout. Ages 4 8. Author's)
