Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? by Dr. SeussMy review
rating: 4 of 5 stars
OK, right off the bat let me set your straight: we own the hardback edition of this book with paper pages and the small board book edition. You NEED to have the hardback version. Why? Because the board book version pails in comparison. Entire pages with great sounds and illustrations are omitted, and you don't get to repeat the sounds Mr. Brown makes at all until the end. In the hardback edition, you do several times - and you get to do a hippopotamus chewing gum. Grum! Grum! Grum!
But I get ahead of myself.
Mr. Brown is a master of making sounds - easy sounds like a cow or a bee, and difficult sounds like the aforementioned hippo as well as goldfish kissing and the splat of lightning. All the while, Mr. Brown contorts his faces in funny ways that help him make these sounds, often to the delight of the subject he is imitating. I'd recommend trying to imitate his facial expressions, too, when reading this book aloud to your kid because (a) it'll amuse the heck out of them, (b) it really does help you make the sounds, and (c) when was the last time you really stretched out your face?
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4 comments:
we love that book too, although we only have the board book edition.
Well, now I know what to get Millie for her second birthday!
This is one of Colin's favorites too - thanks to Marshall, Jen & Bella. If you would give me your new address I would send a proper thank you card, by the way.
ha ha! Never!
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