{"id":22852,"date":"2017-09-08T08:00:48","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T12:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=22852"},"modified":"2017-09-08T08:00:48","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T12:00:48","slug":"zooping-it-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=22852","title":{"rendered":"Zooping It Up!"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Herv\u00e9 Tullet’s Press Here<\/em> burst onto the scene in 2011, it became an instant must-have for every collection, proving that you don’t need a digital device\u2014or even flaps, pop-ups, or fuzzy pages\u2014to have a whole lot of interactive fun. His follow-up, Mix It Up<\/em>, was equally successful, this time using clever instructions to immerse kids in color theory, seemingly allowing them to create new colors by dabbing blobs, shaking the book, and SMOOOOSHing the book\u2019s pages together (ok, so the smooshing sound is just what we yell when we do it at home).
\nAnd now we have Say Zoop! <\/em>It clearly follows in the steps of the others, yet also takes the format to a new level. The previous two books help kids enter into a planned experience through playful, yet carefully plotted prompts. But while those books trick kids into thinking they’re in charge, Say Zoop!<\/em>\u00a0actually puts readers at the helm, helping them\u00a0create something that\u2019s wholly their own along the way. The book\u2019s basic rules are deceptively straightforward. If you see a blue dot, say oh<\/em>. If you see a red one, say ah<\/em>. For a yellow dot, say wahoo<\/em>! But there’s nothing simplistic about it.
\nWatching two-year-olds concentrate on making the right sounds in the right order on a spread filled with different dots allows you to really watch their little wheels as they turn. Using colored dots to playfully evoke and manipulate vocalization, this clever book also represents an ingenious introduction to the concept of reading music. When the dots go up, raise your pitch. When they fall, drop it. What does that melody sound like when you sing it? What about \"\"<\/a>when I do? As the pages encourage kids to play with vocal spacing, volume, pitch, and even emotion, the reading experience morphs into exploration. What do those prompts sound like if you\u2019re shivering, or crying, or fighting? What about if they\u2019re coming from a car or a bird? What about if they’re layered one on top of the other or if they swirl into zigs and zags and blobs and splats?
\nAnd what if the dots turn orange, purple, and green? In my house, the answers are: beep<\/em> for orange, high pitched chicken noise<\/em> for purple, and endless debate for green. (No NOT plork, no NOT gebeegebeegebee, no NOT bamboozle, no NOT tuna salad, no NOT snoo.)
\nHours after one of our booksellers, Merrilee, read Say Zoop!<\/em> for storytime earlier this week, a father came back in to grab a copy, saying he just couldn\u2019t get the book out of his mind. And you know, neither can I. Especially since Herv\u00e9 Tullet slyly, maddeningly, ends his stories with invitations to start over or continue the adventure, there really is no end. How long does it take you to zoop it up? Ten minutes? An hour? Well, that\u2019s entirely up to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The sly, maddening genius of Herv\u00e9 Tullet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}