Let's Rumble!: A Rough-and-Tumble Book of Play - Hardcover

Payne, Rachel G.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0593750691 ISBN 13: 9780593750698

Publisher: Penguin Young Readers, 2025

Synopsis

A lively and humorous depiction of healthy rough-and-tumble play between siblings. When the oldest and youngest siblings decide to rumble, they do so with great imagination and careful consent. Wrecking ball! Steamroller! Bear hug! Sandwich!... The list goes on of inspiringly creative physical play scenarios, with a running narration of text bubbles between kids. When the middle sibling decides to join, the other two inform her of their code word (“Cantaloupe”), which means “Stop everything!” An engaging and encouraging model of healthy rough-and-tumble play, the benefits of which are explained in pointer-rich back matter for adults.

About this title

About the Author

Rachel G. Payne is the coordinator of early childhood services at Brooklyn Public Library, where she leads the BPL’s award-winning First Five Years initiative. She is a contributor to Reading with Babies, Toddlers, and Twos (Sourcebooks, 2013) and Library Services from Birth to Five: Delivering the Best Start (Facet, 2015). She has written for School Library Journal (where she coauthors the First Steps column), Library Trends, Kirkus, and the Horn Book blog Calling Caldecott. She served on the 2009 Caldecott Award Selection Committee and chaired the 2016 committee. She has presented on early literacy at ALA, PLA, Bank Street Infancy Institute, Young Child Expo, and at other professional gatherings, and regularly leads staff trainings on early literacy at BPL and beyond. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Young Readers
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0593750691
• ISBN 13: 9780593750698
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Pimienta Jose
• Number of pages: 32