147. Board book: Moo-Moo, I Love You!

Board book: Moo-Moo, I Love You! Tom Lichtenheld. Illustrated by Amy Krouse Rosenthal. 2022. [November 1] 34 pages. [Source: Library]

First sentence: Moo-moo, I love you. I love you no matter your moo-d. Good moo-d...bad moo-d...worried moo-d. Shy moo-d... Sad moo-d... Silly moo-d. I love when we share our favorite things... pizza with extra moo-zzarella, farm hu-moo-r, popcorn at the moo-vies...and grooving to moo-sic.

Premise/plot: Love cow jokes? Love stories where unconditional love is displayed between animals? 

My thoughts: What you see is what you get. If you enjoy cows, or cows in literature, then this one might appeal. I mean they are illustrated in an adorable way. Not much substance--just cow jokes involving the word "moo." But the cows are cute.

 

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The Cow Loves Cookies

The Cow Loves Cookies. Karma Wilson. Illustrated by Marcellus Hall. 2010. Simon & Schuster. 40 pages.

Whenever Farmer feeds the horse, he feeds the horsey hay, of course.
The horse just loves to nibble hay. He eats it every single day.
But the cow loves cookies.

I loved this book. I just loved, loved, LOVED this book. It was--for me--one of those wonderfully perfect books. The magical kind that feel oh-so-right from start to finish. The kind of book you feel was written just for you. That's how much I loved Karma Wilson's The Cow Loves Cookies.

The book is written in rhyme. It's set on the farm. It features a farmer who is feeding all his animals. The reader learns that the horses eat hay, the chickens eat chicken feed, the geese eat cracked corn, the pigs eat their slop, etc. But. As interruptions clearly show time and time again. The cow LOVES cookies.

It's predictable. It's repetitive. It's got a great refrain. It's silly. It's wonderful fun.



And I just LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the illustrations. Seriously!!! They are oh-so-perfect!!!

The Cow Loves Cookies is a book I would want to read again and again and again.


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