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A Is For Musk Ox (2012)

by Erin Cabatingan(Favorite Author)

4.22 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

159643676X (ISBN13: 9781596436763)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Roaring Brook Press

review 1: I think this is the funniest book. I’ve already shared it with several teachers, and have more than one saying they “must” get the book! A zebra is going crazy with his arguments with a musk ox. They’re collaborating to create a new alphabet book, and the musk ox manages to find ways to be shared with every letter. He’s just so tired only being with the “M”, always in the middle, the place everyone seems to forget. There is “A Is For Musk Ox”, yes, because he’s “awesome”. This determined Musk Ox is tired enough of “A is for Apple”, so he’s eaten a hole in the cover of the book (the apple), but then feels a little guilty so shares the “M” with apple, and figured out quite creatively why it deserves to be an “M”. Erin Cabatingan shows ... moreher own clever ways because she manages to include actual facts about the Musk Ox. For example, “O is for Musk Ox” because “Eskimos call musk oxen “Omingmak”, which means “the animal with skin like a beard.” Matthew Myers manages to amuse in the illustrations, with beautiful scenes and fun expressions on the faces of the musk ox and the zebra. The book has lots of applications in the classroom for fun work in vocabulary and creative thinking.
review 2: This works beautifully for a writing lesson on voice, and is a fantastic springboard for kids who have to do a report on an animal or a state or a person... It's not my pick for teaching the alphabet, but I do love how it can be used with older kids. And who can resist a musk ox who, when asked why do male musk oxen headbutt at twenty-five miles an hour, ten, twelve, sometimes twenty times, responds, "It's all for the ladies." less

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