![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a neat and humorous outing, and its sly championing of noisy, engaged reading will add a pleasing disruption to early reader struggles. ![]() Soft, easy lines create simple, slightly goofy animal figures, with minimal shading keeping things cartoonish and expressions helping provide cues for tone and expression in the text. Dialogue offers both plausible and comic repetition and the situation is a natural for short words and quick repartee, all of which takes place entirely in speech bubbles some difficult early orthography challenges are helpfully negotiated as well. After they erupt into laughter, the pooch firmly sets them straight (echoed belligerently by his bird friend) and the animals decide to roll with it-and the donkey opts to break out with a “Cock-a-doodle-doo!” This follow-up to Milgrim’s Moo Bird again demonstrates the author-illustrator’s established gift for peppy beginning reading. In this case it’s a pup going “Moo,” sometimes supported by his bird sidekick, and the rest of the barnyard is resistant to the new direction. ![]() This little beginning reader starts with that age-old event, an animal making the wrong animal noise. David Milgrim Moo Dog (Scholastic Reader, Level 1) Paperback Octoby David Milgrim (Author, Illustrator) 389 ratings Part of: Scholastic Reader, Level 1 (55 books) See all formats and editions Kindle 1.99 Read with Our Free App Paperback 3.99 38 Used from 1.30 3 New from 1.87 1 Collectible from 25. ![]()
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