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Animal Crackers Fly The Coop (2010)

by Kevin O'Malley(Favorite Author)

3.59 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0802798373 (ISBN13: 9780802798374)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Walker Childrens

review 1: Kevin O'Malley creates here a picture book that I would have loved as a kid. Donalyn Miller found the connection to The Bremen Town Musicians as did I while reading this wonderfully imaginative work by O'Malley that provides a "ladder" as well as a send-up of the Grimm Brother's original. This natural ladder invites a side-by-side read that would bring the Grimm Brothers to younger readers. Extending the ladder would bring us right to A TALE DARK AND GRIMM. The reason I would have loved this as a kid is because I grew up on a steady diet of MAD magazine and CRACKED (I'd find my uncle's copies and devour them when I visited my grandfather's house).O'Malley's is full of jokes and one-liners that may not be in the wheel house of every reader in the room, but there are one or ... moretwo readers in any given classroom that are ready for these references. Think about that joke-teller on the playground. O'Malley's book offers new material.The illustrations make this title a marvel as well. During the climax, the animals fill the page with their response to the robbers they happen upon. O'Malley really gets the interplay of text and image in this one and Gimme Cracked Corn and I Will Share (another review to come here at Goodreads).What's more, when someone asks for chicken puns at Twitter, Animal Crackers Fly the Coop becomes a mentor text.
review 2: Good for a laugh! This book has a ton of jokes, puns, and silly animals. The premise is based on the folktale Bremen Town Musicians. In this fractured tale the hen is a comedian rather than musician. She takes flight away from her farm after the farmer threatens her. In her flight she meets other animals who are also not very good at their jobs on the farm. They join the hen and strike out to be comedians too. Good book and can be used with a wide range of students K-4 less

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