{"id":203,"date":"2008-01-16T13:13:35","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T20:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=203"},"modified":"2008-08-01T09:35:37","modified_gmt":"2008-08-01T16:35:37","slug":"the-cow-goes-moo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2008\/01\/the-cow-goes-moo\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cow Goes Moo"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a><\/a><\/a>Can I hear a good MOOOOO?<\/p>\n

An animal sounds storytime may lead to bizarre dreams involving the animal See & Say (no longer with a string attached), but it’s a definite crowd pleaser.\u00a0 You may get tired of oinking and baa-ing, but the children sure won’t!<\/p>\n

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Snip Snap<\/em> may not show up in a search for animal sounds picture books, but it’s such a fun book to read aloud that I couldn’t resist including it (the crocodile does, indeed, snip snap).\u00a0 Snip Snap includes toddler-appropriate suspense that ends with the children taking charge of a scary situation.\u00a0 If you’re into audience participation, you can encourage your audience to chime in when you read “You bet they were!”\u00a0 Even if you don’t (I didn’t), you’ll have some yell out, “Yes!”<\/p>\n

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Nothing at All<\/em> begins quietly enough; the horses neigh, the cows moo, and other animals make their voices heard.\u00a0 However, the scarecrow says “nothing at all” (this phrase is repeated).\u00a0 That is, until a mouse crawls into his pants.\u00a0 It’s showtime!\u00a0 The scarecrow sets out on a wiggly jiggly dance until the mouse is mercifully freed.\u00a0 The silly scarecrow elicited genuine laughs with his crazy dance.<\/p>\n

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Bark, George<\/em>is one of my all-time favorite picture books; I hardly need an excuse to include it.\u00a0 George oinks, moos, and makes other nondog-like sounds until his harried mother takes him to the vet, which ends with surprising results.<\/p>\n

It doesn’t matter if you encourage audience participation or not.\u00a0 When you read, “No, George! ____ go ____. Dogs go _____,” you’ll hear oinks, moos, and woofs.\u00a0 Feiffer produces delicious suspense when George moos, the vet reaches “deep, deep, deep down inside of George,” you turn the page, and everybody sees a very surprised cow (and flipped out mother) on the next page.\u00a0 This morning’s group was in a very good humor, so this was a huge hit. Lots of belly laughs!<\/p>\n

My animal sounds storytime always includes a rousing rendition of “Old MacDonald Had a Farm.”\u00a0 Leading the song with puppets adds a further dimension, and the puppets act as great cues for the animal noises.\u00a0 If you choose to present this with a male puppet acting as Old MacDonald, make sure you practice changing puppets on the other hand.\u00a0 The songs moves surprisingly quickly when you have to manipulate and change a variety of puppets on one hand.<\/p>\n

Since I have enough “the ___ says ____” type of books, I usually don’t include fingerplays\/action songs that involve animal sounds.\u00a0 We did the “Silly Dance Contest” song on Jim Gill’s The Sneezing Song and Other Contagious Tunes<\/em> CD\u00a0after reading Nothing at All (because the scarecrow does a silly dance when the mouse creeps into his pants).\u00a0Our other action songs were wiggle (not Wiggles) songs that are set to familiar tunes.<\/p>\n

Books Mentioned:<\/p>\n

Bergman, Mara.\u00a0 Snip Snap! What’s That?<\/em>\u00a0 New York: Greenwillow Books, 2005.<\/p>\n

Cazet, Denys.\u00a0 Nothing at All.\u00a0<\/em> New York: Orchard Books, 1994.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Feiffer, Jules.\u00a0 Bark, George!<\/em>\u00a0 New York: HarperCollins, 1999.<\/p>\n

CD Mentioned:<\/p>\n

Gill, Jim.\u00a0 The Sneezing Song and Other Contagious Songs<\/em>.\u00a0 Chicago: Jim Gill Music, 1993.<\/p>\n

Did I miss your favorite animal sounds story?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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