The lovely silliness of this book is matched by Mahy's clever wordsmithery and by the cadence of the rhyming text. Mahy's narration would give Prelutsky a run for his money! Dunbar's illustrations don't hurt, either (the mixed media is a great touch). Toddlers may not sit through it (the text is pretty long for a picture book) but older children will love the nonsense babble of the story of the baby in the bubble!A.R. 5.4 Wow! I daresay that there is not a better book for teaching alliteration,assonance and consonance than this picture book. This is a tricky one toread aloud but very fun! Here is an example from the first page of the book."Little Mabel blew a bubble, and it caused a lot of trouble...Such a lot of bubble trouble in a bibble-bobble way.For it broke away from Mabel as it bobbed across the table,Where is bobbled over Baby, and it wafted him away."I gave it 5 stars for the sheer genius with rhyming and repetition of sounds.
What a fun book to read aloud! Delightful rhymes and word choices.
—mlm
Delightful picture book. Fabulous rhymes by outstanding author.
—Keonna
Rollicking! Anna laughed herself silly through this one.
—mockingjay
Cute. Silly. Great tongue twisters.
—zuly
Dr. Seuss would be proud!
—Chika
