'The Terrible Plop' by Ursula Dubosarsky

Ursula Dubosarsky is the author I chose to do my author study on. One of picture book of hers that I came across was The Terrible Plop. The story is about a little rabbit that learns that some things in life are not as scary as they seem. A mysterious sound known as the Terrible Plop is heard in the forest and frightens the animals to run for their lives.

The story is structured as a narrative but told in a poetic way, using lots of rhyming words and repetition which young children will quickly pick up.

Filled by magnificent whacky energy of the illustrations by Andrew Joyner and the rollicking rhyming story by Dubosarsky, young children will likely be engaged in the book as it keeps them guessing to figure out this mysterious sound.