Let’s all HOP UP! WRIGGLE OVER!

HOP UP! WRIGGLE OVER! by Elizabeth Honey, Allen and Unwin.

If you’re looking for a beautiful Australian book for a new arrival or young child, this is high on our list.

Enjoy nine different Australian baby animals cavorting through the day with their koala and kangaroo parents.( All named on the title page)

From the time they leap onto their koala Mum’s bed, through to when she reads them a bedtime story, it’s go, go, go all the way.

This is a story of sounds you can joyfully recreate together- wonderful for reading aloud and dancing around.

From the ting tang and clang clang of the breakfast plates (you can imagine what they are doing with them!) to whoops-a daisy on the swings, splish splash and brush your toothie pegs at bath time, pipe down (ready for the bedtime storybook) it’s a day littlies can relate to. (And their parents- with a lovely Ahhh! when they are all asleep at the end of the day.)

Suitable from 6 months to about 3 years.

Animals mentioned: Koala (Mum), Red Kangaroo (Dad), wombat, numbat, echidna, quoll, wallaby, bilby, possum, quokka and antechinus.

If your kids want to find out more about an antechinus, quoll and more, search at the Australian Museum site:

Watch the video

On the Elizabeth Honey website you can see Hop Up! Wriggle Over! read expressively on vimeo by children. There is sheet music for the words lower down the page.

http://www.elizabethhoney.com/hop-up-wriggle-over.html

Read for Playgroup or small group storytime

The Little Big Book Club has HOP UP, WRIGGLE OVER! as one of their featured June books.

The Little Big Book Club learning time PDF sheet Hop Up, Wriggle over sheet gives ideas for a family session with babies using songs ,stories and activities.There are related theme books at the bottom of the web page.

Add to the session with an action song using loads of Australian animals.

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Books in our 100 Stories Before School booklist

with Australian animals

Caterpillar and Butterfly (Aboriginal story) by Ambelin Kwaymullina Fremantle Press
Edward the Emu by Sheena Knowles, illustrated Rod Clement. Harper Collins
How the birds got their colours, (Aboriginal story) by Mary Albert and Pamela Lofts. Scholastic
Josephine wants to dance by Jackie French, illustrated Bruce Whatley. Harper Collins
Online Aboriginal Story – The Blue Wren
Possum and Wattle, My Big Book of Australian Words by Bronwyn Bancroft. Little Hare
Possum Magic by Mem Fox, illustrated Julie Vivas. Omnibus/Scholastic
Ten Scared Fish, (Aboriginal story) by Ros Moriarty and Balarinji. Allen and Unwin
Wombat Stew by Marcia K Vaughan, illustrated Pamela Lofts. Scholastic
Bilby’s Secrets by Edel Wignel, illustrated Mark Jackson. Walker
One Hungry Spider, Jeannie Baker, Scholastic
Somewhere in Australia by Marcello Pennacchio, illustrated by Danny Snell, Scholastic