On the Move!

All Ages

Birth - 12 months

On the Move!

by Emily Hawkins
Illustration by Emma Dodd

This book is filled with bouncing, joyful rhymes and colorful pictures of cars, boats, trucks, and trains that move magically before your eyes. Designed by child development experts, this book stimulates baby's language and visual skills in a clever and entertaining format.

Age: 1 Year-olds | Title: On the Move! | Author: Emily Hawkins | Publisher: Silver Dolphin

Why we chose this book

This is a tremendously lively book that focuses on all means of transportation. It is filled with bright cartoon illustrations, and the pages include a hologram, which shows these modes of transportation in motion. On the Move! is also filled with a lot of bouncy rhymes, which makes the story move along jauntily as well.

It is exciting to see each hologram, and even the most squirmy children, will be transfixed by the movement on each page. Your child will also like feeling each hologram's rough textured surface. The book incorporates a lot of sound words, which will add some theatrical and exciting sounds to your reading. All of these factors combined, will make your child interested from beginning to end.

My nephew, Joshua, thought all of the holograms in the book were amazing. He also enjoyed the fact that the book focused on trains, trucks, and airplanes, which he loves and plays with all the time. He took the book from me and started turning the pages excitedly, just to see what vehicle was showcased on the next page.

--Eve

What our readers are saying

This book contains bouncy rhymes (great for phonemic awareness) and focuses on modes of transportation (wonderful for vocabulary development). Plus the book is designed by child development experts to stimulate language and visual skills.

Avery loves the bright illustrations of cars, boats, trucks and trains. She sometimes has a hard time concentrating on one thing for too long, but this book does a great job of keeping her interested and engaged from beginning to end. The hologram pictures allows the images to change before your eyes, and helps to show these modes of transportation in motion. Plus she loves the sound it makes when she runs her fingernail up and down the picture.

The book also contains many sound words (or onomatopoeia) which adds some excitement to the reading. Eric always laughs at me when I get so into the book and try to make realistic beeps, zooms, and honks (but it really is a great way to keep kids interested). Avery also loves looking at this book on her own. She gets so serious and loves turning the pages to see what comes next!

--Liz Give, Chalkboards to Strollers