Where Have You Been?

by Margaret Wise Brown

Book Overview

Where has the Little Old Cat been?

To see this and that
Said the Little Old Cat . . .

Where does the Little Old Fish swim?

Wherever I wish
Said the Little Old Fish . . .

Have you also wondered where a cat or a squirrel has been or where a bird flies or a whale sails? How about why a bunny runs? With playful, rhyming verse, where have you been? perfectly captures the wonderful, wise questions that children ask every day.

The treasured text by Margaret Wise Brown, author of goodnight moon, has been newly illustrated by two-time Caldecott Medalists Leo and Diane Dillon, creating a picture-book classic that children will love to see, to hear, and to read again and again.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060283785
• ISBN13: 9780060283780
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.9" x 11.3"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

A favorite at our house

Both my sons loved this book starting at around 18 months. This book is a great transition from the shorter board books to longer picture books. The combination of the simple rhyme and beautiful illustrations makes this a captivating book for toddlers. My sons also picked up a number of new vocabulary words from looking at the pictures (saxophone, mermaid, mole, etc.).

Great Book

I bought this because I have another book by these artists and I love the art work. This book is beautiful and the story fun. My 18m son was an instant fan!

questions!

Children are full of question. This is a simple picture book that is full of questions. Such as where why do bunnies run? Where do birds fly and where do the whales sail. Young children will enjoy this book written by the author of Good Night Moon. Cute animal illustration grace each page! What did you like or not like about the book? The book is written in rhyming test making it easy and simple to read aloud. Young children enjoy rhymes and may even catch on to the pattern and try to help you read! This is a wonderful bedtime book and would also make a great read-aloud in a classroom, where it could be used in a beginning animal unit.

A sweet book of rhyme...

It's easy to blow this book off as too saccharine, repetitive, and dull - but it's good to remember that nursery rhymes are important to very young children's sense of meter and phonetics. This book represents a modern treatment of Brown's work, written in 1952, in that the illustrations pull the reader farther into the story than the text does, which was considered verboten then. This helps make this simple book of rhyme more engaging for young readers. While it would work as a classroom read-aloud, it's a better bedtime book, one that would be a wonderful gift for a new grandma, too