About viviankirkfield

Writer for children - Reader forever - Mom of 3, educator, author of FOUR OTTERS TOBOGGAN: AN ANIMAL COUNTING BOOK (PomegranateKids, PIPPA'S PASSOVER PLATE (Holiday House), SWEET DREAMS, SARAH (Creston Books); MAKING THEIR VOICES HEARD: THE INSPIRING FRIENDSHIP OF ELLA FITZGERALD AND MARILYN MONROE (Little Bee Books); FROM HERE TO THERE: INVENTIONS THAT CHANGED THE WAY THE WORLD MOVES (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Jan 19, 2021); PEDAL, BALANCE, STEER: Annie Londonderry, First Woman to Bike Around the World (Calkins Creek/Astra, Feb 20, 2024) picture book junkie, lover of travel, hiking, fly-fishing, cooking, and playing Monopoly with my grandson.

PB 14:14 – Day 9 – Top Ten Elements in Picture Books

Posted on February 22, 2015 by viviankirkfield

Happy Sunday, everyone. We are continuing our countdown with Day Nine of Christie Wright Wild’s PB 14:14.

Having loved picture books for most of my life, I’ve read quite a few. Many of my favorites contain rhyme…which isn’t surprising since rhyme is one of the Top Ten Elements found in picture books.

So today my choice is a book that includes lots of rhyme.

Title: A Troop is a Group of Monkeys

Author: Julie Hedlund

Illustrator: Pamela Baron

Publisher: Little Bahalia Publishing

Date: 2013

Word Count: 250 estimated

Top Ten Element: Rhyme

Opening Lines:

“A parliament of owls hoots in the night.

A pandemonium of parrots begins to take flight.

A troop of monkeys travels by swinging.

A colony of bats spends the day clinging.

What makes this book really special is that each page delivers a word for the group of that particular animal. Did you know that a group of peacocks is called an ostentation? Or that a group of giraffes is called a tower? Or that a group of skunks is called a surfeit? Continue reading →

PB 14:14 and PPBF – The Right Word

Posted on February 20, 2015 by viviankirkfield

Hold onto your hats, everyone! Today is Day Seven of Christie Wright Wild’s PB 14:14 AND Perfect Picture Book Friday. WOW! Just like the old Doublemint gum commercials.

And it is a triple whammy, because the book I’ve chosen is also in Kristen Fulton’s 52 Weeks of Charting Non-Fiction Picture Books. So after you enjoy this post, please hop around to read the other entries in:

PB 14:14 – http://christiewrightwild.blogspot.com/2015/02/day-7-boris-and-wrong-shadow-by-leigh.html

Perfect Picture Book Friday: http://susannahill.blogspot.com/2015/02/perfect-picture-book-friday-bear-ate.html

52 Weeks of Charting Non-Fiction Picture Books: http://www.kristenfulton.org/dig-in/52-weeks-of-charting-nonfiction

And one of the reasons I picked this particular book is that it is all about words..and this is my 550th blog post – and that’s a WHOLE LOT OF WORDS!