“Down in the swamp where the cypress grows, old man gator starts tapping his toes…
Pretty soon, all the swamp animals are movin’ and swingin’ to Gator’s beat. The swamp swells into a chorus of croaking. whirring, and buzzing.
Yippity-Yip!!
Down in the swamp where the cypress grows, Old Man Gator starts tappin' his toes. With a tip, tap, tippity tap, tip, tap, tap.
Wood Stork flutters down from her nest, clackin' her bill and puffin' her chest. With a click, clack, clickety-clack, click, clack, clack.
Reviews
“‘Down in the swamp / where the cypress grows, / Old Man Gator’ starts the rhythm ‘with a tip, tap, tippity-tap.’ Swamp flora in Goembel’s acrylic wash and colored ink lines aptly frame center stage, where jazzily dressed fauna engage in combinations of sounds and moves. Each double-page spread introduces a new animal-aerial creatures such as the ibis and the wood stork, land animals such as the black bear and the pygmy rattler and water creatures such as the bullfrog and the river otter-making for a comfortable mix of the familiar and unfamiliar. Ketteman sets a you-can’t-help-but-chant-it verse pattern that incorporates a different onomatopoeic sound for each animal, from the dragonfly’s ‘whir, whirr, whirrity-whirr’ to the fox squirrel’s ‘chit, chee, chittety-chee.’ These set the stage for a musical jamboree in which all 13 animals complete this satisfying presentation, performing their signature moves and tones one at a time, handing off the final ‘TIP, TAP, TAP’ to Old Man Gator. Oh, yea
Kirkus Reviews, August 1, 2009
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