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Summary: Best Muffin I Ever Read
Review: My son loves this book. My daughter is just being exposed. Both ask for it over and over again. From my perspective, it's great on teaching sequencing with good storytelling.
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Summary: Three year old loves the audio cassette
Review: My three year old loves the audio cassette, especially the first song--he acts it out. Unfortunately, he hates the second and last song--the rap song so I have to quickly stop the tape before he gets upset.
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Summary: My two-year-old loves it...
Review: Our two-year old is heavilly into books, and this has risen to the top of his favorites. He has memorized bits and pieces of the book (it's adorable to hear a 2-yr-old say "A Moose A Muffin"), loves the pictures and points to them on every page, and asks for it every night at bedtime. From a parents perspective, it's a great book as it shows sequences of events, puts a funny character in real-world activities, and is entertaining to read. Not only my son's favorite, but one of mine as well.
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Summary: Read to Your Child to Develop Bonding and Intellect!
Review: Researchers constantly find that reading to children is valuable in a variety of ways, not least of which are instilling a love of reading and improved reading skills. With better parent-child bonding from reading, your child will also be more emotionally secure and able to relate better to others. Intellectual performance will expand as well. Spending time together watching television fails as a substitute. To help other parents apply this advice, as a parent of four I consulted an expert, our youngest child, and asked her to share with me her favorite books that were read to her as a young child. If You Give a Moose a Muffin was one of her picks. This humorous book has to be one of the most imaginative ever written and illustrated! The premise starts with a child spotting a moose out the window in the back yard. The child beckons to the moose, gives the moose a muffin, opens the kitchen door, and lets the moose in. Holding the muffin in his teeth, the moose obviously seems to need some jam. The child opens the refrigerator and gets out the mother's homemade blackberry jam. The moose quickly starts eating the muffin, now that it has jam on it. Then another, and another . . . and another until they are all gone. He seems to want you to make some more. One thing connects to another, and before the book ends the moose will get a sweater, make puppets, create the scenery, put on a puppet show, make a mess, clean up the mess, want some more jam, and still wants some more muffins. The book works at several levels. First, the idea is simply to be a good hostess or host. That's something that all children need to learn. You should try to please your guest. Even if it is a moose! Second, there is also an analogy to being a parent, helping a child. So your child can begin to see what it's like to be the caregiver. Third, how do you accomplish things? Some you buy, some you make, and almost all have consequences. The book helps your child learn to connect the dots. Fourth, the child and the moose make a terrible mess. No one gets excited, but they do take responsibility to clean up after themselves. Amen! Fifth, one thing does lead to another. It is easy to get distracted. The circularity of the story helps your child remember what the purpose originally was, and not to get sidetracked. Sixth, the book introduces ideas of activities you can do with your child. In fact, it's all right to put the book down and start doing those activities . . . or pick a time to do so. All in all, you get a lot for your time and money. The illustrations are wonderful in making the moose very human and humorous. The figures are vivid and clear, and are filled with warm, rich colors. You can take the concept of the book and make up your own stories with your child. Then you could draw illustrations together and do the activities that you pick for the story. You could start with your child's favorite animal and food. If you give your dolphin a cookie, etc. In that way you can stimulate even more bonding and creativity. Have a ball! Be sure to overcome your stalled thinking that only authors can come up with great stories that you'll both love. I'll bet your child and you can do a wonderful job! Enjoy!
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Summary: second in the series by this talented team
Review: Six years after their classic 'If You Give a Mouse a Cookie', Numeroff and Bond were back with an equally compelling tale of generosity unrewarded. Because of course one thing leads to another -- each seemingly logical, each somehow more outrageous -- until once again the accommodating child is left exhausted.
The illustrations are wonderful, particularly the moose donning a sweater to fight off the chill. Your children will howl with delight.
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Summary: If You Give A Kid An Idea
Review: The kids and I just love the Numeroff books, and "Moose" in particular. It shows cause and effect, however absurd, and is full of activities for rainy or snowy days. The text and pictures have given us great ideas--sock puppets, making scenery, working in the garden, making jam, and cleaning up afterward. Highly recommended for encouraging young imaginations!
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Summary: Not as good as "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie"
Review: The words are difficult for a 6-year old reader. The story is essentially the same, so if buying only one, buy the other one. It's a classic.
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Summary: Book leads to home activities
Review: We love If You Give a Moose a Muffin, not only for the story and illustrations, but because we have found it easy to act out some of the antics of the story's characters. There is nothing like making sock puppets with your kid(s) to warm up cold snow days, and the other books in the series have equally creative ideas.
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Summary: Best Children's Book!
Review: When I was little, this was my very favorite book. Every now and then I find it laying around somewhere and squeal as I read it again. I am today a moose lover and I think it was books like this that provoked that interest. The story and illustrations are just plain adorable. I was reading it when I was 5 or 6 and still find it really cute and fun. Someday my kids will be loving this book too. I found this one more entertaining than If You Give a Mouse a Muffin, which I also owned as a kid but never found as cute and funny. If you have a kid, give him this for a birthday present!
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