A review by katymul
Do You Know Which Ones Will Grow? by Susan A. Shea, Tom Slaughter

funny informative lighthearted fast-paced

5.0

What a perfect picturebook! Rhyming verse that doesn't announce itself, just sounds perfect with the cadence of letting a toddler finish the rhyme and flip the picture art (a rhythm I still find fascinating and impressive, having no idea how to do it myself). The illustrations are deeply clever, and the smaller inanimate objects that the book imagines might "grow" into larger versions of themselves transform in a variety of clever ways on the half-pop-up-book pages. The use of cut-outs and flip-folds and just perfect placement makes this book not just fun for kids and parents but deeply impressive in the mechanics of text and images.