Pig Giggles and Rabbit Rhymes: A Book of Animal Riddles - Hardcover

Downs, Mike

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0811831140 ISBN 13: 9780811831147

Publisher: Chronicle Books, 2002

Synopsis

Children love riddles and jokes: collecting them, learning new ones and tormenting just about everyone they know with them! Each riddle in this hilarious picturebook begins with a question and an illustration full of hints. Turn the page to find the answer. Colorful illustrations add to the humor and playful, rhyming answers help budding readers develop an awareness of word patterns which is necessary for early reading. Pig Giggles and Rabbit Rhymes is sure to tickle a new readers funny bone.

About this title

About the Author

Mike Downs is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy and the father of three children. He won the 1998 Hawaii Children's Literature Award for his manuscript There's a Leopard in My Laundry. This is his first book.

David Sheldon was born in Cincinnati and began his career as an illustrator in 1985. He has since drawn for books, magazines and television including the toy log "ads" in Ren & Stimpy. He lives in Kentucky.

Reviews

Kindergarten-Grade 2-Two easy-to-read riddles are presented on each recto, with answers on the following verso. For example, "What is a frog's favorite dessert? Fly pie"; "What do you call a rabbit that tells jokes? Funny bunny." A few are a bit more challenging: "What do you call a well-mannered insect that eats houses? Polite termite." Colorful, digitally enhanced illustrations give clues to the rhyming answers, designed to tickle the funny bones of beginning readers. A silly supplemental purchase.
Sally R. Dow, Ossining Public Library, NY
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

In this simple but sharp joint debut, Downs and Sheldon make a game of rhyming word pairs. Each right-hand page asks two questions and insinuates the answers in a crafty cartoon. For example, as a jaunty purple kangaroo and a rust-brown bird use a boardwalk shower on a sunny stretch of beach, the text inquires, "What do joeys use to wash their hair? What do hooting birds use to dry off?" The page's verso supplies the solutions in a curly typeface: "Kangaroo shampoo Owl towel." After a few tries, readers will get the hang of guessing what "an octopus like[s] to sip" (ink drink) or the name of "a crustacean musical group" (sand band). All told, Downs presents 20 riddles and a smattering of open-ended jokes (a blue canine and a green amphibian on the title page wonder, "What rhymes with dog?"). Resembling animation stills with their undiluted colors and refined edges, Sheldon's splashy, nearly three-dimensional illustrations add plenty of punchy fun. Ages 4-8.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0811831140
• ISBN 13: 9780811831147
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Sheldon David
• Number of pages: 32