Boom Baby Boom Boom - Hardcover

Mahy, Magaret

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64 ratings by Goodreads

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ISBN 10: 1847804101 ISBN 13: 9781847804105

Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books, 2014

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When Mama tells Baby that she’s made a lovely lunch for him, she doesn’t know that the animals are listening at the window. And they are much hungrier than Baby. While Mama bangs on her drums boom-biddy-boom-biddy-boom-boom-boom the yellow cat, the brown dog, the red rooster, the black-faced sheep, and the brown-and-white cow each eats a tidbit thrown on the floor by Baby. Good Baby gets a banana for dessert and, this time, he eats it all up. Boom-biddy-boom-biddy-yum-yum-yum!

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About the Author:

The best-selling and much-admired children's author Margaret Mahy (1936–2012) wrote more than 200 books for children and is considered one of the outstanding children's writers of the 20th century. She was given the Hans Christian Andersen Medal, the highest international recognition granted to children's authors, and twice won the Carnegie Medal. Also the author of Dashing Dog, Down the Back of the Chair, Bubble Trouble, and The Man from the Land of Fandango, she died in 2012. Best-selling children's book illustrator Margaret Chamberlain is the illustrator of Has Anyone Seen Jack?, Look Out He's Behind You, Tales from Grimm, My Two Grannies, and My Two Grandads. She lives in Dorset, U.K.

From Kirkus Reviews:

Wonderful whimsy and delicious silliness in this read-aloud from Mahy (The Five Sisters, 1996, etc.). Mama puts her baby daughter into the blue highchair of a light-filled room, and presents her with a mouth-watering lunch: bread and honey, sweet apple slices, cheese, carrot, and lettuce. No straightforward baby story, this one: Mama then sits down at her drum kit, for beating her drums makes her feel ``at ease with the world.'' She doesn't know ``that the animals were listening at the window,'' and, ``Boom-biddy-boom- biddy-boom-boom-boom!'' Closing her eyes in ecstasy, Mama doesn't see the animals trot in. When baby drops the cheese to the floor, the cat eats it up; the bread goes to the dog with the ginger eyebrows; the lettuce to the sheep; and so on, until the whole lunch, to the accompaniment of Mama's paradiddles, is eaten, but none of it by the baby. Mama opens her eyes to the last beat, sighs, hugs and kisses her baby, and gives her a banana, ``And the baby ate it all up. Boom-biddy-boom-biddy YUM YUM YUM!'' The colors are soft, clear, and friendly, all the animals have personalities, and Mama and her child are as round, pink, and bewitching as all get out. One yummy book. (Picture book. 1-5) -- Copyright �1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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