| Title | : | Rosie's Walk |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | |
| ISBN | : | 1416908358 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9781416908357 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 32 |
| Publication | : | First published January 1, 1968 |
| Awards | : | Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Picture Book (1968) |
Rosie's Walk Reviews
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A lucky find in a charity shop this week! Having probably read this as a child and having taken this out of the library when my children were small, I was really pleased to find a copy.
The story is simple, Rosie is a hen who is going for a walk. She is closely followed by a fox, luckily a series of accidents means that Rosie returns from her walk safely.
The illustrations are really distinctive, their 60s style is really enjoyable, I love the colours, browns, oranges, yellow and olive green. The images have lots of patterns and designs that make this instantly recognisable. -
A timeless classic that was great for teaching youngsters about prepositions and maps. After I would read this, the students and I would make a map of the places Rosie visits.
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I actually first heard about this book when I was watching it on “Weston Woods” which is a children’s programming company that turns classic children’s books into ten minute long cartoon shorts. “Rosie’s Walk” is a children’s book by Pat Hutchins and it is about the wacky adventures of Rosie the Hen and the fox that is trying to catch her. “Rosie’s Walk” is truly a brilliant and hilarious book that many children will love for many years!
This was the first book that I have read from Pat Hutchins and I can tell you that I really enjoyed this book! Pat Hutchins has done a great job at both illustrating and writing this book. The best aspect of this book is that the story is extremely hilarious as Rosie keeps on walking into all kinds of things at the farm such as a rake and a haystack and the fox suffers for it as he runs into the things that Rosie goes through easily. I love the way that Pat Hutchins portrays Rosie as a quiet hen who is unaware of the danger right behind her, which makes this book extremely light-hearted as Rosie is never actually hurt when she goes through various objects and buildings at the farm, however the fox is the one who always get hurt every time it tries to catch Rosie and I think that many children will definitely enjoy the fox’s futile efforts to catch Rosie. Pat Hutchins’ illustrations are truly simplistic yet hilarious as you can see that most of the background objects such as the trees have geometric shapes that make this book look simple. I love the way that Pat Hutchins illustrates the trees in oval shapes and the branches are set up all in a row of lines in the trees. As was the trend with most picture books of the 1960s, there were mainly only six colors used in the illustrations which were red, orange, yellow, black, green, and brown, however these colors easily bring out the humorous touch to the illustrations. Pat Hutchins illustrates Rosie as a yellow, orange and brownish hen with a calm look in her eyes despite the fox following her in every image and the fox is drawn with a large bushy tail, large black ears, and small feet, which actually makes him look more cute than scary.
“Rosie’s Walk” is a truly hilarious story that I believe many children will enjoy if they love good humor. I would recommend this book to children ages three and up since this book is really easy for small children to read since there are only two or three words per page and there is nothing inappropriate in this book that would worry parents.
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A book that I doubt will ever loose its sense of originality and delight. It is, for me, the perfect picturebook and one that set a precedent for all that followed. It's amazing to think it's over 50 years old.
Simple enough to the early reader, we watch as Rosie takes a stroll through the yard. As she does, she is pursued by a broad-eared fox who fails each time we turn the page to capture her. Does Rosie know what's happening or is she oblivious to the fox's constant attempts to eat her? Well, that's up to the reader and that's half the joy in the book itself.
A form of joyous play between word and picture and between text and reader, it may only contain 31 words but it is a model of perfection and the delight that comes with reading. -
So much fun! This is really all about the illustrations as there are only a very few words and it could really be told without them--which I mean as a compliment because the illustrations are wonderfully expressive and interesting. As the sly fox slinks after Rosie the chicken on her walk, he comes to realize that maybe she is even MORE sly as she leads him through a series of natural booby-traps which she manages to skillfully avoid. It's like a more refined Roadrunner and Wylie Coyote! ;->
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For a book that has only 32 words within its covers, this is delightful. Pat Hutchins' lovely story is enhanced by her superb period illustrations (1968) which could, indeed, tell the story without any words at all. But the reader can enjoy both words and pictures.
Rosie the hen sets off for a walk around the farm where she lives. Unknowing to her a crafty fox is following in her footsteps and is getting ready to pounce. Fortunately for Rosie, who is thoroughly enjoying her walk around her domain, at every moment when the fox is about to attack something untoward pops up and thwarts him.
The end result is that Rosie completes her walk and 'gets back in time for dinner'.
This is a timeless tale and absolutely charming, no wonder 'The School Librarian' magazine commented, 'Classic and everlastingly pleasing.' It certainly is. -
Loved how the drawings in this book were so 70 ties inspired, from color to motive. A fun book to watch on how the chicken stays save the whole time, making it seem that the fox is dumb in all of this. Beautiful colors!
This book is in the
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I can’t even begin to count the number of times I’ve read and relished this book aloud to small children.
It’s one of my all-time favourites.
I love the rhythm of the words:
Rosie the hen went for a walk.
Across the yard.
Round the pond.
Over the haystack
Past the mill
Through the fence
Under the beehives
and got back in time for a dinner.
I find myself tapping out the timing of her walk as I read and then we look at the pictures of Rosie walking sedately, oblivious of the fox tracking her but meeting disaster at every turn. Immensely satisfying. -
We got a themed box of books from the library about Farms and this was one of the books. Most of these books from the box, although labeled for grade K, are really a little boring for my 5 yr old, but he's already doing first grade work, so it might depend on your level of your reader. My twin 3 yr old's loved this though. About 10 words in the entire book, it's really more about the story that the pictures tell, about Rosie the Hen's walk around the farm with a fox chasing right behind her. The escapades the fox gets into had my preschoolers laughing and so it was a fun read for us.
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One of my favorite childhood stories :)
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This story is all about the pictures—the words are sparse and not integral to the story. Rosie the hen goes for a walk, and the fox following her always manages to get hurt in places that she stays safe. Does Rosie do it on purpose, or is it just luck? You decide.
I love the stylized illustrations from 1968. -
Lovely book for Early Years depicting the journey of Rosie the hen. It is also lovely because the stroy focuses on Rosie but the story itself has another character who is only shown in picture. This leads itself to asking questions about this character. Group reading would be a very good time to use this book.
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A picture book classic about a hen who is completely oblivious to the antics of a fox who is stalking her. With minimal text and simple geometrically patterned pen and ink illustrations, there is much to observe in this lovely preschool concept book. The cause and effect humor of the fox's walk makes this an enjoyable book to share in small groups or one-on-one.
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Beautiful illustrations
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The first time reading Rosie’s Walk I was not very impressed. There are very few words and I didn’t feel like a child would be too engaged in the book, but after reading it a second time and thinking of ideas to make it better, I thought that when reading the book if you made noises to go along with what’s being said it may enhance the walk and make the story better as a whole. So for a third time reading it, I decided to read the story out loud, making noises when the fox had an accident, and found myself laughing and getting more into the book. The colors used in the illustrations are a good representation of a farm being in a sense plain, but I feel that if there had been more of a variety of colors it would enhance the book greatly and the reader would want to look more into the illustrations. I found myself just glancing at the illustrations thinking “oh, that’s cute” whereas I would want to think “wow, beautiful!” because I think that’s farms as well as nature are amazing but that wasn’t shown through these illustrations. It would also be a great way to start a do-it-yourself book for children. They could pick their surroundings (a house, park, school) and pick their own animals to use throughout the book and could use their imagination to make a story like this! The anticipation that you get, wondering whether the fox will get the hen is also fun and makes you wonder what will happen on the next page. I also love that the word fox isn’t mentioned, so the illustrations speak louder than the words in the sense that without the illustrations, the story wouldn’t be complete.
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A cute little book for cute little kids. It was fun to read a book with 32 words on 32 pages (no, not one word per page). The illustrations are also hilarious, even though I don't usually like this style. The unusual side of the book is the lack of descriptions. The few words that are there don't really tell the story, unless you are looking at the pictures. Or rather, they tell the story how it's seen from Rosie's point of view, which doesn't really correspond with what really happened. Thus, a lot is left unsaid, giving space for imagination, word-play and discussion. The downside - it can't be one of the first books a kid tries to read him or herself; since the words and the pictures tell two different stories, it makes it impossible for a beginning reader to focus. But it's a great book for reading together. I wish I learnt about it earlier, when my son was three or four; back then it would be very entertaining and educational for him. Now, that he's five, it's not all that educational, but we still had a lot of fun and a nice discussion.
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I read this book when working with a nursery class and the children really enjoyed the story. It has simple sentences and colourful illustrations to go with it which the children love. After a few times the book has been read to the children they start to pick up on most of the sentences such as "past the mill", "over the haycock" which enables them to join in with the story.
A activity I did with the children that they really enjoyed was a role play, where I got half the children to be the foxes and the other half to be Rosie the hen. I had set the outside playground with obstacles similar to what then hen faced in the story, I then got the children to act out the story and at the same time they would say what they were doing.
Overall this story is a good book for children as it helps them to learn different directional words such as past, over, around and many more. The book also focuses on journeys and can interlink with other stories as well. -
This humorous little picture-book, which relies on the contrast between text and image to produce its effect, follows Rosie the red hen as she sets out for a walk around the farm. The extremely brief narrative - the entire story is told in a single sentence - is calm and matter-of-fact, little more than a recitation of Rosie's itinerary. The illustrations, on the other hand, are colorful and exciting, depicting a sly fox on the hunt - for Rosie! Unfortunately, or fortunately (as the case may be), he keeps running into trouble, as Rosie walks heedlessly along. I'm glad my friend Kathryn recommended this - I never would have picked it up otherwise, and it really is a wonderful book. Rosie's Walk is one I highly recommend to younger preschool children who enjoy a funny story!
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Alternating pages with words and pages without words, makes this book easy to follow for new readers. Further, the illustrations match the main character's (the oblivious rooster) actions, helping to prompt the reader, followed by funny pictures of the hungry/mischievious fox getting himself into trouble, making the story fun to read. Little details in each illustration (a little snail by the side of the road, a bird in a tree or a little mouse in a haystack) make it fun to explore beyond the words.
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I wasn't crazy about his one, it seems to straddle the fence. On one hand, it has directional language (under, across, in, around, etc.) that is too advanced for the very young children. For children who are old enough to begin to understand the directional language the story is lacking... only a few words per page, if that. I'm not sure why but the art didn't do anything for me either in spite of the fact that the artist used my favorite color palette.
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A G-rated version of Tom and Jerry.
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A wonderful picture book with beautiful illustrations.
