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Pig Giggles and Rabbit Rhymes: A Book of Animal Riddles

Pig Giggles and Rabbit Rhymes: A Book of Animal Riddles

by David Sheldon (Author), Mike Downes (Author), Mike Downs (Author)

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    Hardcover 2002

    $3.27
Synopsis

What do hooting birds use to dry off? An owl towel. Children love jokes. This fresh collection of animal riddles is perfect for even the youngest reader. Each riddle begins with a question and an illustration full of hints. Children turn the page to find the answer. Colourful illustrations add to the humor, and the rhyming answers sharpen reading skills. The focus on animals and the rhyming answers set these riddles apart from other joke books and the colourful artwork adds to the humour.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 32
 Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 21 Mar 2002
ISBN 10: 0811831140
ISBN 13: 9780811831147

Media Reviews
In this simple but sharp joint debut, Mike Downs and David Sheldon make a game of rhyming word pairs. Each right-hand page asks two questions and insinuates the answers in a crafty cartoon. For example, as a jaunty pruple kangaroo and a rust-brown bird use a boardwalk shower on a sunny stretch of beach, the text inquires, What do joeys use to wash their hair?/What do hooting birds use to dry off? The page's verso supplies the solutions in a curly typeface: Kangaroo shampoo/Owl towel. After a few tries, readers will get the hang of guessing what an octopus like[s] to sip (ink drink) or the name of a crustacean musical group (sand band). All told, Downs presents 20 riddles and a smattering of open-endedjokes (a blue canine and a green amphibian on the title page wonder, What rhymes with dog? ). Resembling animation stills with their undiluted colors and refined edges, Sheldon's illustrations add plenty of punchy fun. -Los Angeles Times
Author Bio
Mike Downes is father of three children. He won the 1998 Hawaii Children's Literature Award for his manuscript There's a Leopard in My Laundry. This is his first book. David Sheldon was born in Cincinnati in 1957. When he was in 3rd grade he won 10 cents for making the best witch in art class, and seeing that he could win friends that way, was urged towards a career in art. Since then, he has illustrated the Dogmas and Cattitudes pop-up books for Running Press, CDs for Warner Brothers and Nick at Nite, as well as characters for television, greeting cards, and packaging.