That's Good! That's Bad!

by Margery Cuyler

Book Overview

A little boy has a comical series of adventures and misadventures with a bunch of wild animals in That's Good That's Bad by Margery Cuyler with full color illustrations by David Catrow.

A visit to the zoo turns into a high-flying trip as a shiny red balloon carries a little boy into the animals' habitats where he has close up meets and greets with baboons, elephants, snakes, and many other jungle creatures.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805029540
• ISBN13: 9780805029543
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: Square Fish
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 9.5" x 10.9"
• Age Range: 4 to 7 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 2

Customer Reviews

My son loves this book!

My 3 year old son loves the repetition in this book. The illustrations are vibrant and keep his attention well. We read this book over and over and over... I highly recommend it!

Very imaginative

I have this book with a tape. I got the set from the children's scholastic magazine. I don't know if my kids would have enjoyed this book as much with out the tape. The tape has great background sounds. The Illustrations are very well done. And The idea of something seeming like it would be good, but then turning out bad and The other way around is very easy to understand in this book. A young boy gets lost from his parents and ends up in and out of danger until he makes his way back to his mom and dad. I would recommend this book for 4 to 6 year olds. The book does show the boy being chased by some angry scarry animals, I know this would be too scarry for my sensitive 2 1/2 year old, but my daughter loved this book when she was around 4 years old.

A little boy tumbles through adventure after adventure

What if a balloon was so big it carried you away? That's what happens to the poor little boy in this story when his parents buy him a balloon at the zoo. What follows is a wonderfully imaginative and beautifully illustrated adventure packed full of wild animals and hair-raising situations.My daughter loved this and has asked us to read it to her many times. It's delightful for parents, too, which is always a plus for the story-reader!

..with fangs....yikes!

Oh how I love this book! Open it up and right away the illustrations capture your curiousity, they make this book what it is...........fun! Children will laugh, hisssss and growl right along with the story as the little boy lifts off high in the air dangling from a big red balloon. His adventures with the zoo animals are exciting and somewhat suspenseful as he meets face to face with a long, slithering snake (with fangs..oh my!). This is great storytelling for groups of children who will eventually recite the main dialogue "that's good. No, that's bad" before you can even get the words out. After reading it add some dramatic play by acting out the zoo animals and then get to the art supplies and draw your own adventure! Have fun!

Marvelous fun to read out loud!

This book is great fun to read out loud to preschoolers and young school children. Sound effects are written in (bang, whoosh, plop), so you don't need a lot of imagination, just a lot of expression. It is the story of a boy whose parents buy him a balloon at the zoo (that's good), and it lifts him up and away (that's bad). He is deposited in the jungle and meets a variety of helpful and not-so-helpful animals there. The illustrations are delightful, and it has a happy ending. It shows kids that you can have all sorts of adventures in the big wide world, and you can always come home to your loving parents.