MEWBURN, Kyle (text) Mat Russell (illus.) Tumble Ted Scholastic, 2013 unpaged NZ$19.50 pbk ISBN 9781775431497 SCIS 1643066
This is a wonderful picture book to use for a pre-school/New Entrants class whereby the book can be directly linked with physical education. There are some children who are kinaesthetic learners with an innate sense of the body-in-space and there are some who have little dexterity at all. Tumble Ted is one of the latter. Be it cartwheels, handstands, flips, or creating a bodily pyramid, Ted is a walking, falling, collapsing disaster. But he has a redeeming quality; and this book is about redemption! The illustrations are bare and focussed which adds to the possibility of a PE/literacy drama where images are projected onto the background. JMcK