Author David Reisman has brought us another entertaining work, ideal for young listeners.  Like his previous title, Cows Can’t Jump, he uses a patterned text in Cows Can’t Quack that invites children to predict and participate.   For instance, it begins with “Cows can’t quack…”   Turn the page and find, “but they can moo.”  This sample is ...

Summary of Nighty Night!  The young barnyard animals are at play.  The sun begins to set, so they are sent to bed.  They do not want to stop playing though.   As the animal parents go to tuck their little ones in, they find the children have done a switch-a-roo!   Once they are finally matched with the correct parent, there are requests for ...

Summary of Trashy Town:   Mr. Gilly drives around town doing an important job:  collecting trash.  As he goes to various places in the community—the school, the pizza parlor, the park, the doctor’s office, and the fire station—the following fun, rhythmic refrain is recited: Dump it in, smash it down,drive aroundthe Trashy Town!  Then, the ...

Reading aloud to babies, toddlers, and preschoolers is essential.  Interacting with the books during story time is even better.  Mem Fox, literacy advocate and author of over 20 children’s books, states: Because words are essential in building the thought connections in the brain, the more language a child experiences—through books and through ...