We recently read The Vole Brothers by Roslyn Schwartz and it is a definite winner with C and R. If you have read Chirp Magazine, then you are already familiar with the brothers, but this is their first full-length picture book. C and R laughed through the whole book; they love mischievous characters like these brothers! The book features two silly rodents searching for food, but every time they think they have found the perfect meal, something goes wrong. Even I chuckled a few times.
In addition to the humor, the book is full of onomatopoeia - I love onomatopoeia, and think this is a great book for teaching that language lesson. After we read through the book once, I explained onomatopoeia to C and R, and gave them a few examples. Then we reread the book and found all of the onomatopoeic words.
Since then, C and R have been yelling out examples whenever they think of them!
This book is from the creators of The Mole Sisters; I think I have to add The Mole Sisters to my list of books to read!
Our copy of The Vole Brothers was provided free of charge by Owl Kids Books in exchange for an honest review. The free book did not influence my opinion!
7 comments:
This looks like a very cute book!
This looks like such a cute book. I'll have to see if our library has it.
That book looks soooo cute!
This looks like a cute set of books!
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I'm with the others the book looks so cute!
That does sound like a cute book!
The book looks lovely, and I am amazed how you managed to add a little lesson into it too.
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