Mmm-mm! Forest animals squeak, tweet, slurp, yip and chomp over the sweet, plump fruit of a wild blackberry bush. But what happens when a bear arrives to take part in the feast? Young children will enjoy following the story by making the animal sounds, and the chaos that strikes upon the bear's arrival will surely bring on the laughter. The cumulative, rhyming text makes for a great read-aloud.
Guess what happens when cows eat grass? Naturally.
"Everyone poops - yes, it's true. From aardvarks to the humped zebu." Indeed. And aren't we all at least a little bit curious about this subject matter? Told in rhyme, smart and sublime, here's a fun and fact-filled field guide to poop around the world and very close to home. Kids will discover surprising uses, words, forms, and facts about something in which they have a natural interest. Who knew that a wombat produces cubes? Or poop's many uses for housing, cooking, and fun at county fairs? While it may dismay and stink, there's more to this stuff than you might think!
A frog and a hog get into a spat that turns into a full-blown feud, until the judge lays down the law.
When a lion finds a gypsy sleeping in the desert, something very unexpected happens.
A fly buzzing around a donkey's head sets off a chain of events that leads to a cow in the cabbage patch.
With nearly three quarters of a million copies sold, this is the #1 "fractured nursery rhymes" book in North America. It's a delightful way to introduce young children to Jack & Jill, Humpty Dumpty, and all the rest of Mother Goose's characters.
