This is the story of a group of farm animals who want to be in a talent show in order to win a trampoline. At night they practice very hard, but their farmer becomes suspicious. The animals are taken to the talent show and enter the talent show. The duck wins the award of a new trampoline and they all go home happy, without their farmer ever finding out what happened!

Media: brush and watercolor
Genre: fantasy fiction
Age Appropriateness: Primary and Secondary ( )

Dooby Dooby Moo is a good example of fantasy because it is about farm animals that are lead by a duck signing up and participating in a talent show and the duck wins the first prize trampoline which they all jump on in the barn. This would not happen in real life but seems believable in the book. ( )

Level 3 reading. Farmer Brown watched his animals closely. The farmer knew the animals were up to something but could not figure out what. At night the animals rehearsed while the duck and mice scored them. Finally it was time for the county fair. As soon as Farmer Brown was out of sight the animals ran to sign in at the talent show desk. The animals all performed except for the pigs who feel asleep. When the farmer got back to his truck the animals were all there like he left them. The duck had won the trapoline and that night all he heard was boing, boing, and boing. The children can host their own classroom talent show. ( )

Dooby Dooby Moo is a perfect book for children from preschool to second grade because it has great repetition and familiar songs that the kids enjoy singing with the reader. It is about farm animals that hear of a talent show, and trick the farmer into thinking that they are sleeping at night when they are really practicing their songs and dances for the talent show. The first prize winner of the talent show gets a trampoline, so they really want to win. The cows sing their song first, then the sheep go, the pigs are too busy sleeping to perform, so it is up to the duck to win first place and get that trampoline. He jumps on stage and sings a standing ovation performance of “Born to Be Wild,” and the farm animals get to bring the trampoline home.

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