Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #106733 in Books
• Published on: 2003-05-06
• Binding: Board book
• 14 pages

Synopsis
Buzz, buzz! Moo, Moo! Cock-a-doodle-do! In this delightful board book the eccentric Mr. Brown introduces babies and toddlers to a host of wonderful noises. With uniquely Seussian pictures and rhyme, this charming book also serves as a first step on the road to learning to read with Dr. Seuss. With his inimitable combination of hilarious stories, zany pictures and riotous rhymes, Dr. Seuss has been delighting young children and helping them learn to read for over fifty years. Creator of the wonderfully anarchic Cat in the Hat, and ranked among the UK's top ten favourite children's authors, Seuss is firmly established as a global best-seller, with nearly half a billion books sold worldwide. As the first step in a major rebrand programme, HarperCollins is relaunching 17 of Seuss's best-selling titles, including such perennial favourites as The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham and Fox in Socks. As well as 10 classic paperbacks, the new range also includes two rebranded board books (newly reduced to GBP3.99 to increase competitiveness in the market place), along with four book and audio tape sets and a paperback bind-up.

Customer Reviews

Disappointed
Was really disappointed to discover the book has been cut short with lots of Mr Brown's noises gone from this edition. I wanted a new copy of the book for my own kids, as the one from my childhood lives in its dog-eared state at grandma's house. Sadly this new board book isn't a patch on the original.

My babys' favourite book - he loves the funny sounds!
This was the first book to really captivate my son, at the tender age of 6 months! He loves the sounds in the book - the "buzz buzz" made him giggle the first time he heard it - and the sing-song rhythm of the rhyme keeps him totally tuned in (no mean feat making a baby concentrate) every time I read it to him. It's short length is perfect, and importantly I never tire of reading it either!

Dr. Seuss inspires parents and kids to make wonderful noises
In the old days it was Old MacDonald who had a farm and on this farm hehad a cow, duck, and all sorts of other animals, each of which made aparticular sound that can be imitated. But then along game Mr. Brown, acreation of Dr. Seuss, who makes Old MacDonald look like the strong silenttype. That is because as we learn in "Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?: Dr.Seuss's Book of Wonderful Noises," Mr. Brown can do more than "moo" like acow, "buzz" like a bee, and go "hoo hoo hoo hoo" like an owl. Mr. Browncan go "pop" like a cork, "eek eek" like a squeaky shoe, and even make thesound of a hippopotamus chewing gum.
I think one of the reasons this is a popular book with beginning readersis not only because kids enjoy making all these noises, but also becauseparents and other adults get to embarrass themselves in making the soundson these pages come alive (or a reasonable facsimile thereof). Trying tomake the sound of the rain or a big cat drinking is not too hard, butdoing a very hard noise to make like the sound of lighting (which is a"splatt" apparently) or a noise like a goldfish kiss ("pip") might bepushing the envelope too much.
Of course, you can make up any sound you want when you are reading this tovery young children. But you have to keep in mind that the whole point ofthese Bright and Early Books for Beginning Beginners is to inspire them toread on their own one day, which means you can look forward to beingconfronted by an indignant young child demanding to know how the noise youmade every time you read them the book has anything to do with what ishighlighted on these pages. So be forewarned, that sooner or later youare going to be embarrassed reading this book.