cover image Tap Tap Bang Bang

Tap Tap Bang Bang

Emma Garcia, Boxer (Sterling, dist.), $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-907152-00-9

In this companion to Toot Toot Beep Beep and Tip Tip Dig Dig, freely shaped tools sport googly eyes and tackle different tasks. Rendered with hand-printed paper and acrylics in the style of Eric Carle, a saw goes “cree craw cree craw,” a glue gun “stickety stick,” and a mallet “whack whack,” as they work together to construct a red go-kart. Reader-directed text (“We can turn turn with the wrench,”) provides the next best thing to actually holding the tools. Ages 2–4. (May)