"Hatberry Shoeberry, In my canoeberry. Under the bridge, and over the dam. Looking for berries, berries for jam." They're off...a boy and an endearing, rhyme-spouting bear, who squires him through a fantastic world of berries. And their adventure comes to a razzamatazz finale under a starberry sky.
Children will want to feast again and again on Bruce Degen's exuberant, colorful pictures and his rollicking, berryful rhymes.A young boy and a bear joyously romp through the land of berries where there are raspberry rabbits and a brassberry band with elephants skating on strawberry jam.
Bruce Degen's Jamberry is a fun way to teach your little one what jam is made from. The board pages are filled with detailed pictures guaranteed to stoke your child's imagination. There are animals canoeing, playing instruments, and "dancing in meadows of strawberry jam." Consistent rhyming creates a steady reading cadence while adding fun new words to the story in lines like, "rumble and ramble in blackberry bramble. Billions of berries for blackberry jamble."
It will be fun to ask your child if each 'berry' is a real berry or not. There are blueberries and strawberries mentioned, but also 'shoeberries' and 'canoeberries'! Perhaps you two will even come up with a few new types of berries of your own! To further their understanding, you can have some jam and crackers with your little one while reading.
There is an explanation from the author on the final page about how this book was inspired from memories of picking berries with his grandparents. This, in turn, inspired me to take my niece blackberry picking one spring day when she was about three years old. She had so much fun staining her little hands with berry juice! When we got home and all cleaned up, we had some berries and yogurt while reading Jamberry again.
--Audra