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You might also like More from author. Prev Next. Leave A Reply. Sign in. The rhythm and repetition entices the reader and audience to turn pages with each new double spread introducing a different and familiar Australian wildlife creature to the journey.

As young readers form better speech and understanding there is fun in reading Kangaroos Hop. They will be calling out the types of animals as they learn to identify them, plus counting the number of animals and indentifying colours.

But for this reader it was the verbs, bringing an equal share of colour to the story, enjoying how differently animals move, to the usual "walk" or "run". Ros Moriarty is the founder of Indi Kindi pre-literacy education and her quality of writing is inspiring. Kangaroos Hop is a fun read, lively and vivid, leaving an echo playing inside my head. At the end of the book is a Yanyuwa translation to encourage language skills. Rae Eather. Kangaroos Hop written by Ros Moriarty and illustrated by Balarinji Design Studio is a vibrant, beautiful book that is sure to become a favourite with young children.

The vivid, contemporary coloured Aboriginal art illustrations on the cover invite the reader to look inside to discover more. The bright purple, yellow and green kangaroos hopping across an ochre coloured land, together with brightly coloured birds flying overhead are all moving in the direction of the story that lies behind the cover.

In the book, the reader is taken on a journey with colourful native birds and animals all heading for the river…and an unexpected surprise. The story builds up gradually, flowing from page to page in a bold, clear text that is easy to follow word by word for an emergent reader.

The creatures mentioned in the story offer a great opportunity for language development. On the back page of the book the story is told in the Yanyuwa language and a map shows the area in northern Australia where this language is spoken.