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Young MacDonald had a farm. Ee-i-ee-i-o. And on that farm he made . . . A Hig! Ee-i-ee-i-o . A Hig (horse-pig!) that says "oink-neigh" is just one of Young MacDonald's silly animal creations. With his madcap machine, this junior scientist invents a barnyard of delightful animal pairings. It's all in good fun until the animals start an experiment of their own!
Preschoolers will love to laugh and sing along with the ridiculous new rhymes, while their older siblings will appreciate the imaginative animal pairings. This mix-and-match twist on "Old MacDonald" is an infectious and hilarious sing-aloud.
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Reviews (5)
School Library Journal Review
K-Gr 4-Grab your overalls, Old MacDonald, and step aside for Young MacDonald, a lab-coated techno genius who is going to make some changes on the farm. As the livestock curiously gaze on, the aspiring Dr. Frankenstein constructs his mysterious gizmo in the barn. The boy places a horse and a pig on the platform and before you can say "Ee-i-ee-i-o," he turns them into a "Hig-With an Oink-Neigh here,/And an Oink-Neigh there-." The animals are amused and astounded as the youngster creates skateboarding "Deese" ("Hee-Honk"), a swimming "Shicken" ("Baak-Baa"), a plane-flying "Muck" ("Quack-Squeak"), and a polo-playing "Cowl" ("Moo-Hoo"). However, the experiment goes awry when Young MacDonald steps onto the platform with his dog and the mischievous cat throws the switch (oops!). The creatures roll with laughter at the sight of the resulting "Bog" ("Oops-Arf"). As his parents arrive home with pizza, the boy quickly makes things right and everyone settles down to eat. The lyrics are great fun and have lots of wordplay. Milgrim's simple, muted cartoons of modern-day life on the farm hit just the right note. Filled with silly humor, this zesty rendition of a traditional favorite will have wide appeal. Pair it with Lenny Hort's The Seals on the Bus (Holt, 2000) for a laugh-out-loud sing-along.-Linda Staskus, Parma Regional Library, OH (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
Milgrim's (Time to Get Up, Time to Go) ingenious, giggle-inducing paper-over-board spoof of the classic kid's song stars a farm boy named MacDonald who plays mad scientist, complete with lab coat. With the help of a homemade transmogrifier, he turns a horse and pig into a "A Hig! Ee-i-ee-i-o./ With an Oink-Neigh here,/ And an Oink-Neigh there,/ Here an Oink, there a Neigh,/ Everywhere an Oink-Neigh." He pictures a horse with a pig's head and curlicue tail, and barnyard critters agape (a sheep even stands on its hind legs). Next up are a deese (donkey-goose), shicken (sheep-chicken) and muck (mouse-duck). While it's clear that none of these amalgamated animals minds too much-Milgrim depicts them skateboarding, swimming and even playing polo with their creator-turnabout is fair play, and Young MacDonald soon finds himself transformed into a "bog" (boy-dog, portrayed as a human with a dog's head and tail). The author's crisp, na?f-editorial renderings and airbrushed colors match the playful simplicity of the text and theme, and the spreads bubble with a giddy glee that never wears out its welcome. Luckily, all ends happily: Young MacDonald has everyone correctly reassembled just in time to enjoy a pizza dinner. Ages 5-up. (May) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Horn Book Review
Tired of ""Old MacDonald?"" Listen up: ""Young MacDonald had a farm, Ee-i-ee-i-o. / And on that farm he made... / A Hig!"" A hig (a pig crossed with a horse), which says ""Oink-Neigh,"" is just one of several hybrids found in Milgrim's cartoony but nevertheless careful art. His up-with-inventiveness message is all the more endearing for its subtlety. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.
Kirkus Review
A young vivisectionist recombines the livestock in this "Old MacDonald" outtake. To verses constructed along familiar lines, the lab-coated farm lad in Milgrim's lighthearted cartoons cobbles together a device from found junk that painlessly puts a pig's head atop a horse's body to make a "Hig," then produces feathered "Deese," that call out "Hee-Honk," a woolly "Shicken" ("Baak-Baa") and so on in quick succession. An accident while stepping onto the machine with a dog gives the budding Doctor Moreau a taste of his own medicine ("with an Oops-Arf here / And an Oops-Arf there"), but he manages to restore the natural order just as his parents come back carrying pizza for all. He's last seen tucked into bed with a book on cloning. Milgrim's portmanteau creations aren't as creatively mixed as those in Jack Prelutsky's Scranimals (2002, illustrated by Peter Sís) or Kenyon Cox's Mixed Beasts (2005, illustrated by Wallace Edwards), but younger audiences will enjoy this playful (and topical) rendition of the sing-along favorite. (Picture book. 6-8) Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
PreS-Gr. 1. Times change, even down on the farm. When the inventive young MacDonald lad builds a new gizmo in the old barn, it enables him to combine familiar animals in novel ways. One zap turns a horse and a pig into a Hig. Delighted, the boy carries on, blending donkeys and geese, sheep and chickens, mice and ducks, and cows and owls--creating a mapcap scene of gamboling deese, shickens, mucks, and cowls. Finally, the boy and his dog, newly combined into a boy-bodied, dog-headed bog, round up the critters and put everything right. Substituting new words for the familiar lyrics of Old MacDonald Had a Farm, the text cries out to be sung rather than read aloud. In scene after scene of chaotic fun, the clean lines and flat colors of the digitally assisted artwork brim with energy and comedy. The resolution restores calm to child-centered silliness, providing a little joke for older kids who may be looking on: boy and dog end the day curled in bed beside a book entitled Cloning. --Carolyn Phelan Copyright 2006 Booklist