Finding where you belong. Collective nouns. Lovely art. ( )

Pretty. Easily admired. Some extra cute bits, like swimming with the jellyfish or waiting for the turtles. But I don't believe it's substantial enough for children to make their own, nor do I think it has staying power. ( )

A wild haired boy tries to fit in with the tribes of various animals he explores, And while he finds joy, entertainment and company to play with, he feels that there has to be a tribe for him somewhere.

Whereas the author explored elder years in Grandpa Green, this book is written with the lovely adventures of children in mind.

The child enjoys the animal tribes, but is most happy in a tribe of kids.

Lovely illustrations by a very talented artist. ( )

I really like that my department librarian requests books for his kids to be sent to our location, or I would never get to see all these cool new picture books. The goats are my favorite illustration in this book! ( )

I love this book, but trying to say why I love it is hard. It has great woodblock style illustrations, and most of the book is putting things in families like an unkindness of ravens. It just has something I love, but I can't articulate why.
#Wintergames #teamreadnosereindeer +16 ( )

A wild-haired kid tries to join, and is rejected by, a series of groups of animals (a smack of jellyfish, a pod of whales, a parade of elephants, etc.) and ends up finding their own tribe of wild children.

See also: Wild by Emily Hughes, An Exaltation of Larks by James Lipton ( )

Artwork is enchanting. Minimal text, using group-names of animals (pod whales, unkindness of ravens) in sequence to suggest story. ( )

Some group names, and lots of interesting illustrations. ( )

This book follows a child clothed in leaves from hanging with a tribe of kids (baby goats) to discovering a tribe of kids (other children clothed in leaves). Along the way, they come across lots of multiples of things (rocks, plants, elephants, penguins, crows, gorillas, etc).

A young leaf-clad boy cavorts with kids (of the caprine variety) at the opening of this picture-book celebration of a child's journey through the natural world. A colony of penguins, a smack of jellyfish, a pod of whales, an unkindness of ravens, a formation of rocks, a parade of elephants, a troop of monkeys, and many other groupings of creatures follow, as the boy interacts with each. Finally he arrives back at a tribe of kids, this time of the human kind...

Described on the front jacket flap as a book that can be read a variety of ways - as a boy's journey to find his own kind, as a child's voyage of discovery in the natural world - There Is a Tribe of Kids impressed me more with its artwork than with its textual narrative. As expected with a book from Lane Smith, the illustrations were lovely. The two-page spread featuring the elephants, with its rich green background, was a particular favorite. That said, the text felt like nothing so much as a list, and didn't really hold my interest. The three stars are for the artwork. ( )