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Summary
Summary
Moo! Neigh! Oink! Peep! This silly and inventive alphabet board book teaches little ones the ABCs with animal sounds!
We Arf
We Buzz
We Baaah
We Coo
We Chirp
and Cluck
and cock-a-Doodle-Doo!
Animals sure are noisy! With rhyming text and bright and goofy illustrations by David Creighton-Pester, little ones are sure to learn, laugh, and mooo along with this alphabet concept book!
Author Notes
Eric Seltzer's The Long Dog received a starred review from the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Book s. It is a Gryphon Honor Book and has been translated into Spanish. He has written a number of well-received early readers including the Doodle Dog series. His title Four Pups and a Worm is an IRA/CBC Children's Choice and has been translated into Chinese. Eric resides with his family in Michigan.
David Creighton-Pester is an illustrator based in Hamilton, New Zealand. He is passionate about illustrating for children and is particularly excited by the opportunity to bring fun, imagination, and fantastically silly scenarios that expand the realms of reality to kids around the world. Aside from illustration, David also owns and creatively directs his graphic design company, Scorch Design, which has been in operation since 2009. David holds a bachelor's degree in computer graphic design from the University of Waikato and Wanganui Polytech.
Reviews (2)
School Library Journal Review
Toddler-PreS-A cacophony of calls greets listeners in this cheerful concept book that highlights the signature sounds of three or four familiar creatures on each spread. ("We Quack, we Ribbit, we Sing, we Squeak!"). Unnamed, but easily recognizable cartoon critters, offer children and adults an opportunity to extend the fun by identifying each animal. © Copyright 2019. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
A beastly cacophony of read-aloud fun from A to Z.This "rather noisy alphabet" invites a spirited, call-and-response reading from caregivers and young children, who can brush up on their animal sounds and their ABCs at the same time. Rendered in cartoonish but friendly fashioneven the loud, growling tiger wears a big, warm grina variety of animals squeak, chirp, and howl their way through this unevenly rhymed but generally appealing board book. The action plays out over a series of two-page scenes in settings that range from barnyard to brook to forest to glacier to African veldt. Great poetry the text is not, but it is serviceable at least most of the time: "We Arf, we Buzz, we Baaah, we Coo. / We Chirp and Cluck and cock-a-doodle Doo!" Each featured letter of the alphabet is capitalized in context, even when it's not the first letter of the word, as in, "we eXitedly twitter." Most of the rhymes flow pretty smoothly, although the text does, on occasion, abandon meter to an awkward and confusing degree: "On Ice we bark, in water we Jump, on snow we Kiss / We Lick, we Laugh, we snap like this." Most of the featured sounds are utterances, although a few describe an animal's locomotion ("Vrooom" and "Zoom," for example).Not perfect but maybe just right for a raucous reading or 12. (Board book. 1-4) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
