The author of Dream Weaver describes how various animals walk, from the wiggle waggle of a duck to the boing, boing, boing of a kangaroo to the bumble roll, bumble roll of a bear. 20,000 first printing. PreSchool-Grade 1The question-and-answer structure of this text (How does a pig walk? Snuffle root, snuffle root.) and the large illustrations make Wiggle Waggle ideal for use with very young children and for beginning readers. The flat pictures done in colored pencils make the book easy to use with storytime groupseven when children are scattered across the roomand theyre sure to enjoy imitating the Flop! Flop! Flop! of the frog, the Bumble Roll, Bumble Roll of the bear, and more. The layout includes some variation of font size and style to mirror the animals gait. An action-packed winner for toddler and preschool storytimes.Gale W. Sherman, Pocatello Public Library, ID Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. There is no story here but plenty of action, and in the right situation (for instance, a preschool story time), there's the potential for lots of fun. Each two-page spread features an animal--duck, horse, elephant, camel, to name a few--and the question, how does the particular animal walk? Then, in large letters, is the answer. Flop, flop for the frog, bumble roll, bumble roll for the bear, and so forth. The book finishes with a flourish: a roundup of all the animals on the last couple of pages. The colored-pencil depictions of the animals, done with computer software, take up most of the spreads, just the right size for a group to focus on. Little ones will have fun waddling, clippety-clopping, and wiggle-waggling through this one. Ilene Cooper