Elmo Loves You: Pop-Up Book Written & Illustrated by Sarah Albee

Albee, Sarah. Elmo Loves You: Pop-Up Book. 1997. Reprint. Somerville, Mass.: Candlewick Press, 2011. Print. 16 pages
Age Group:	1 to 4 pages
Book Format:	Board Book
Annotation:	Elmo expresses his emotions through this pop up book
Personal Reaction:	Each page has an interactive feature that lifts, pulls, turns and/or pops-up. Favorite things for each of the characters are featured in a basic rhyming prose. Young readers will have fun finding the secret items hidden behind some of the interactive pages. As the Pop-up features are made of paper, the shelf life he book may be limited.
Keywords/Tags:	Love, Favorite things, Sesame Street Characters, Elmo
Early Literacy Skills Enhancements:	Vocabulary Skills ~Promote literacy and the love of language ~Develop and increase emergent literacy skills and vocabulary Print Motivation ~Increase interest in and enjoyment of books Visual Literacy Skills ~Pictures have meanings ~Pictures and words are different Reading Readiness, which includes understanding that ~Pages turn from right to left ~Books have a front, back and right side up ~Stories have structure and development of a sense of story Print Awareness ~Provide a language enrichment environment ~Show the importance of and provide an opportunity for young readers to listen, observe, imitate, and practice language while interacting with books. Narrative Skills ~Young readers will be able to re-tell a story based on the illustrations in Picture Books Phonological Awareness ~Enhanced by guessing rhymes ~Repeating repetitious words