Name: You Can't Tickle Me
Item: You Can't Tickle Me
Rating: 5
Author: Julia Hoover

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Superb drawings with many hidden surprises make this delightful hide & seek tale about a child and a tickle monster a five-star choice.

Synopsis

Summery: A little boy believes a tickle Monster that wants to tickle him is hiding somewhere in his home.

You Can’t Tickle Me - 48 Page Picture Book

In every family home around the world, there is a Tickle Monster waiting to tickle someone just like you!

At bedtime, when you’re trying to get a good night’s sleep, that Tickle Monster is hiding somewhere in your room.

It hides in the closet, groaning, and moaning out sounds like,
“Ahhwoooo!” and “Ohhweeeee!” Then, when you pull the covers off your head, you yell, “You Can’t Tickle Me!”

T. C. Bartlett’s beautifully drawn story will most certainly tickle your funny bone for sure.

In You Can't Tickle Me, T. C. Bartlett has given young children and their parents a wonderful tale of a small child playing hide and seek from a tickle-monster only he can see. Pen and ink drawings bring the story to life in a style reminiscent of Maurice Sendak and Edward Gorey. Parts of the drawings are done in black and white and parts in color (the monster and child, and a certain piece of lost clothing, are always done in color), and the shading and details are perfectly done.

What really makes this book special, though, are the little surprises Bartlett hides on each page. Parents and children will enjoy finding what changes from page to page, who's tickling whom, little signs of the monster here and there, and other details that perhaps only parents (or children) might enjoy. Furthermore, Bartlett has given a guide to certain details that influenced his drawings in the back of the book. This is a book that readers will go back to over and over again and find something new each time.

The vocabulary is appropriate for beginning readers, and although it is not a rhyming book, the pictures correspond enough to the text to encourage new readers to learn as they go.

I heartily recommend You Can't Tickle Me for gifting, parents, libraries, or educators, and look forward to more books by this author.

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I have numerous interests, from history to mystery, science to kids. I am a retired MD - a transplant left me with time for family, friends, faith, fun, fiction, film, & furry companions. For direct submissions, pls let me know why you're requesting me. Use FB or my em, julia.hoover1@gmail.com :) .

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Synopsis

Summery: A little boy believes a tickle Monster that wants to tickle him is hiding somewhere in his home.

You Can’t Tickle Me - 48 Page Picture Book

In every family home around the world, there is a Tickle Monster waiting to tickle someone just like you!

At bedtime, when you’re trying to get a good night’s sleep, that Tickle Monster is hiding somewhere in your room.

It hides in the closet, groaning, and moaning out sounds like,
“Ahhwoooo!” and “Ohhweeeee!” Then, when you pull the covers off your head, you yell, “You Can’t Tickle Me!”

T. C. Bartlett’s beautifully drawn story will most certainly tickle your funny bone for sure.

shared an update on You Can't Tickle Meover 4 years ago

over 4 years ago

Not sure if this would be of interest to those who have taken a look at my picture book, You Can't Tickle Me, but the illustrations are all hand done (not created on the computer), and so is the coloring. I am an old-school illustrator and still do all of my drawings by hand. The illustrations for You Can't Tickle Me took me over eight years to create. I know that might seem like a long time, but ink drawings like the ones in You Can't Tickle Me are large drawings. Not to mention that the stippling just takes forever. It can be maddening at times. The drawing below is 12" X 33" - and I had to scan it onto the computer in three sections. I didn't do the drawings within an eight-year span, though. I actually started the drawings in 1990. But when life took me in different directions, I had to put my pen down every now and then. In the end, You Can't Tickle Me came to life.