A Big Hit with My 6 Year Old!

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	• Dutch Sneakers and Flea Keepers: 14 More Stories Calef Brown Houghton Mifflin, 2000 - 32 pages average customer review:based on 8 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Great rhymes

Our 2 year old already knows all the stories in this and all of Calef Browns books

Cute kid reading

I don't have kids yet, but I ordered these books for my future children, because I thought they were so cute and would be good bedtime reading for kids.

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Artsy Amusement

Calef Brown uses funky-folksy illustrations and cheeky verse to describe fourteen imaginative vignettes. The younger set will enjoy spreads featuring topical buzzwords and images near and dear to them in Seven Bad Teeth, Runaway Waffle, Mysterious Fish and Olf (the impoverished pirate). Older children appreciate the unexpected scenarios of grandma jamming for adoring fans, beetles powdering donuts on a sugar beach or commuters floating away with bubble gum balloons. Kids pick up on your own amusement in reading the clever tale of a Moon Reunion and the limerick spoof Jack in the Bucket. Children ages two to seven will smile and puzzle over this wonderfully odd book.

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A Big Hit with My 6 Year Old!

Amazon.com delivered this book to my son as a gift from a very wise and whimsical friend. He loved it instantly and it became THE requested bedtime book night after night after night. And, that was OK, because we (the grown-ups) love it too! The poems are wacky and sometimes demented and make sense in that dream-sense or nonsense way. You'll laugh and laugh as our family does -- and you'll each have a favorite (mine is "Mysterious Fish"). Promote a love of language and of silliness -- buy this book for a child you love.

Great for Kids

This book by Calef Brown has kept my three year old (now almost four) grandson entertained. Within a month he was able to recite every poem in this book (Dutch Sneakers and Flea Keepers and also Flamingos on the Roof). For a creative child who is on the verge of learning to read, these two books are great!!!

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In the tradition of Edward Lear, Calef Brown has fashioned fourteen nonsense poems so wacky that both young and old will be unable to suppress their laughter. Invented words and sounds and their visual counterparts create both an audible and a visual feast. This is the kind of silliness children (and many adults) relish.

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