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ah-choo! gesundheit!

5/3/2016

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     This is Jack. Only five weeks old and he's already bringing books to Grandma to read. Jack obviously knows about the important things in life.
     The book Jack has chosen today is AH-CHOO!, a delightful offering in a bouncy rhyme from the talented duo of Lana Wayne Koehler and Gloria G. Adams. (Sterling Children's Books, 2016) It's a simple story of a boy in search of a pet. Creature after creature, from an Antelope to a Zebra, is brought home, but to his utter dismay, his sister is highly allergic to them all. Her sneezes are of gargantuan proportions. Of course, there's a solution, but not until an entire alphabet of animals parades across the pages in bright, fanciful illustrations by Ken Min.
     Of course, Jack is a little too young at the moment for all the nuances in AH-CHOO!. What I can't wait for him to develop is that tingling sense of anticipation as he gets ready to let out a blast of his own--AHHHH-CHOOOO!--as the pages turn. Maybe we both will. Kids love books where they can actually participate in the story. I think that's the beauty of poetry, at least the rhyming kind. Just from hearing the end of one line, we usually have a pretty good idea of what the end of the next one is.
     Jack will also be happy to learn that one of the animals bears his name--the Xantis, which I also discovered is a form of, or another name for, a Yak. An exhaustive Google search wasn't particularly clear on the subject.
     Any book that provides education about the alphabet, a bit of zoology and a whole lot of fun, is okay in--well, in my book!

    
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