cover image Don’t Move!

Don’t Move!

Anne-Sophie Tilly, trans. into the Spanish by Yanitzia Canetti, illus. by Julien Chung. Annick (PGW, dist.), $7.99 (36p) ISBN 978-1-55451-893-7

Framed as a series of questions, this trilingual board book offers a guessing game as it asks readers whether they’ve seen various animals in English, French, and Spanish. After the initial question (“Have you seen/As-tu vu/¿Has visto a...?”), each page turn offers a glimpse of the animal to come beside corresponding articles (“the/le/el...”), followed by the big reveal. Chung creates high-contrast black-and-white silhouettes of each creature, set against boldly colored backdrops. Readers may lose track of which language is which, but curious children will be intrigued by the differences—sometimes subtle, sometimes dramatic—between the animals’ names: “chameleon/caméléon/camaleón” versus “warthog/phacochère/jabalí,” for example. Simultaneously available: Hurry Up! Ages 2–4. (Mar.)