Sometimes I Wonder If Poodles Like Noodles - Hardcover

Numeroff, Laura

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0689805632 ISBN 13: 9780689805639

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 1999

Synopsis

Complete with vibrant illustrations, a book by the author of What Mommies Do Best/What Daddies Do Best offers a collection of funny poems about birthdays parties, sleepovers, and more.

About this title

About the Author:

Of this book Laura Numeroff writes:
When I was little I loved to rhyme
It was a favorite way to spend my time.
I also LOVED to read a lot
Curled up in bed was a really good spot!
I loved to draw and play with clay
Or spend time writing all through the
day. Science and music, playing pretend
I still love the things I did back then.

Laura Numeroff's most recent book is What Mommies Do Best/What Daddies Do Best. She lives in Los Angeles, California.

From Publishers Weekly:

The title of Numeroff's (If You Give a Pig a Pancake) uneven collection of verse represents the first line of her opening poem, which goes on to speculate: "Do lions use irons,/ Can chickens read Dickens,/ Do horses take courses,/ Can beavers be weavers...." Unfortunately, its whimsy and lively cadence appear in few of the subsequent poems, all written in the voice of a cheerful girl. Aided considerably by Bowers's (Six Voyages of Pleasant Field Mouse) lifelike oil paintings, the verses do capture the child's likable personality. Yet they come up short in both inventiveness and composition. For instance, despite its kid-pleasing theme, "On Halloween" reads as a lackluster listing of costumes worn by the narrator's friends. On a number of occasions, rhythm falters and rhyme schemes get lost, as in the inaugural stanza of "A Day at the Beach": "This summer when I go to the beach/ I'd like to collect some shells./ I'll string them together and hang them at home/ So when the wind blows they'll sound like bells." Bowers's illustrations provide a narrative through line, incorporating various members of the girl's household as well as images that range from the fanciful (a meticulously clipped poodle slops up pasta, a beaver happily weaves a basket) to the realistic (at bedtime, the girl perches on her bed, hugging her dolls and stuffed animals). This book's graphics will linger in children's memories longer than its verse. Ages 4-8. (May)
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0689805632
• ISBN 13: 9780689805639
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Bowers Tim