FIVE STAR REVIEW: Looking for a great, imaginative adventure? Join the Zippitty Bears and fly to wondrous worlds!
The illustrations by Ankolie are just incredible; bright, bursting with colour and action. This is the kind of picture book that excites a young reader’s imagination and each page has details that readers will enjoy exploring. The idea of one’s imagination being limitless is very appealing and will nurture creativity and encourage kids to realise that their imaginations know no bounds.
I enjoyed the idea that many different fantasy worlds and environments exist for children to explore – they meet new people, they investigate different places, see new and strange creatures, and taste different foods. This story encourages young readers to be open to new experiences and cultures. The comic book style is very appealing to youngsters and this makes reading something pleasurable and exciting. The narrative is lovely, quite rhythmic, a lovely story to be shared with family members.
Fiona Ingram, journalist, drama graduate, children’s author, from South Africa
ZIPPITTY Bears!
Zippitty Bears, an adventurous pair,
Want to be up and away,
You shut your eyes tight,
Spread your arms, you take flight,
Zooming and swooping and loopitty looping
Off to the stars through the night!
No matter who or where you are, you can shut your eyes and take off on the most amazing adventure! Imagination is your space ship to wherever you want to go.
A Word Wings picture book story for lower primary age children, told in rollicking rhyme.
TEACHER LIBRARIAN REVIEW:
Gorgeous, gregarious, playful. This brightly coloured, graphic novel takes readers on a madcap adventure through dreamscapes. So bright and bubbly that any child would enjoy reading it.
Bianca Thorburn, Teacher Librarian, Masters Education – Teacher Librarian, B. Edu. – Secondary.
TEACHER REVIEW: "Who couldn't fall in love with the Zippity Bears? We all need friends like these to take us on the imagination ride of a lifetime each and every night! What a wonderful way to foster creativity through the combination of rhyme and cartoon."
Adrienne T. O'Connell, B.A., Grad. Dip. Ed., taught children from indigenous outback to multicultural city classrooms.