 Hi everyone, my name is Steph, this is Little Bookish Teacher, and today I have a picture book review for you. This is Tap Tap Tap by Herve Tole, and this is one ginormous picture book, but it is also a gorgeous book that allows children to explore movement and story and colour and shape, and it's a really, really interesting text. I did receive a review copy of this from Alan and Unwin, so thank you very much to them. As always, I'm going to start with the blurb on the back. It says ready, place your hand here, close your eyes, concentrate, hit it three times, tap, tap, tap. Herve Tole invites you to a joyful dance where your hand is the star in the book, your stage, the gentle glide to start things off, a few little leaps, then big bouncy jumps, growing in complexity and animation. Finally building to a crescendo of colour, action and movement. Once again, Herve proves himself a master entertainer in a book filled with his signature energy, whimsy and sheer fun. So I have seen some of his previous works before, but this one is a really interesting one. So the whole concept of it, you have your page and your illustration, it's going to be hard to, and some instructions. So the first one is put your hand here. So as the child is being read to, they would follow the instructions with your fingers, and then you follow the instructions like tap, tap, tap. The whole thing has this beautiful, dynamic sense of play and storytelling in book form. The colour palette is fairly simple in red, blue and yellow. The instructions allow a child or whoever's reading to sort of move their hand around the page in different formations. So it's a very active reading experience, which is lovely. It's such a unique concept and something that I don't see often in picture books, which is amazing. I just thoroughly enjoyed exploring this, and I know so many kids who would find this really fun and a way of engaging them in a text that they wouldn't necessarily engage in. So thank you again to the publisher for sending this to me. I will leave a link to where you can find more information about this book down below. If you've read this book or any of Herve Aitoulet's books that you want to talk about them, feel free to do so down below. Otherwise, if you just want to let me know that you're here, feel free to leave a hand emoji down below. I hope that wherever you are in the world, just staying safe and healthy, and I will see you in my next video. Thanks so much for watching. Bye everyone.