This book (we had it as a board book at the time) was a favorite of all of my children--maybe the only book they all liked! It's charming and funny and appeals to kids' love of the absurd and transgressive. It's become hard to find, at least as a board book, so I've pre-bought extra copies in case my kids have children of their own. Otherwise, they'd be squabbling over who gets the original copy.

As an early reader, it's got a lot going for it: repetition to help them associate letters with sounds, onomatopoeia, a good combination of very small and slightly larger (but not too challenging) words. ( )

The first story is fun and the second talks about how to make ice cream

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fun rhythm book that discusses what different animals on the farm do during their day (cow goes Moo Moo Moo)
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I thought this was a great book for kids, and I think children will find this book to be hilarious and engaging. The author creates a funny situation between the farmer and the farm animals. For example, the farmer falls asleep, and wakes up to find all the farm animals in the kitchen. The author also uses a lot of repetition to show what animals say what. When the author says, pigs in the pantry, oink, oink, oink; the reader will find that pigs go oink. That translates to the main message of the text, by learning what each farm animal says. ( )