A Troop of Kangaroos is a collective noun/animal group name books for the youngest readers and listeners. It features nine animals with six bonus animals at the end of the book.
Thoughts: I've always been a fan of animal group names or collective nouns. To borrow a phrase from Anne Shirley, there's so much "scope for imagination" in collective nouns both for writing and drawing. I love that A Troop of Kangaroos is for the younger kids. The illustrations are colorful and detailed. There's so much to look at on the two-page spreads throughout the books. An easy writing and/or art activity would be to ask the kids to write a story or draw a picture of one of the bonus animal group names (hummingbirds, giraffes, wombats, narwhals, coyotes, and raccoons). The kids could also seek out other animal group names and write/draw about one that strikes their fancy. I highlighted collective nouns/animal group names during my summer program because the topic fit in so well with the CSLP theme of "Tails and Tales." You could pair A Troop of Kangaroos with An Ambush of Tigers: A Wild Gathering of Collective Nouns by Betsy R. Rosenthal, A Curious Menagerie by Carin Berger, or A Tower of Giraffes: Animals in Groups by Anna Wright for a fun lesson on animal group names.
Themes: Animals, Collective Nouns, Elementary
(Feiwel and Friends, 2021.)
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