The Little Rabbit who liked to say Moo by Jonathan Allen

The Little Rabbit who liked to say Moo. Written and illustrated by Jonathan Allen. 2008. ISBN: 1-905417-78-0. Easy childrens book. Ages 4+.

In this fun book, the reader follows little rabbit around the barnyard, exploring the different animals and the sounds that they make. The sounds are written in speech bubbles in the pictures, and so it is really fun for children to join in and say the sounds out loud when you are reading to them.

The illustrations are cute and childlike and are done mostly with pen and watercolor.

I just taught a lesson about speech bubbles and quotation marks using this book to first graders and it went wonderfully. After the read out loud, I had them go back to their desks and draw their own scene, and write a sentence about it below the scene. I also made one of the requirements of the assignment to be for them to include a speech bubble in their drawing. It was such a great activity and I am seeing a lot more speech bubbles in their drawings now.