Review by Booklist Review
Ages 3^-6. In the style of Numeroff and Mathieu's Dogs Don't Wear Sneakers (1993), the text points out the obvious while the artwork illustrates the absurd. The verse muses that "Moose don't go bowling / And hens never swim / And you'll never see roosters / Working out in a gym." Meanwhile, the energetic, cartoonlike illustrations show a moose whose bowling ball goes crashing through the window, eight eager but obviously unskilled chickens at the swimming pool, and several exhausted-looking roosters exercising frantically. Children will enjoy the humorous interpretation of the rhyming words in the colorful pictures. --Carolyn Phelan
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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review
With outlandish illustrations that playfully contradict the rhyming text, this sequel to Dogs Don't Wear Sneakers boldly asserts that "pandas don't pole vault/ And camels don't sing/ And you won't find a chipmunk who'll ever be king," etc. Ages 4-8. (Oct.) r (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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Review by School Library Journal Review
PreS-Gr 1The author of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (HarperCollins, 1985) is back with a hilarious imagination stretcher. The rhymed text introduces an assortment of preposterous things that animals don't do. ``Llamas don't shop,'' ``giraffes don't drive cars,'' and ``reindeer don't square dance.'' The vibrant acrylic and pencil illustrations abound with humor. Fully dressed animals with exaggerated expressions expand the text into the realm of the ridiculous that children love. ``Zebras don't cook and you won't see a kangaroo reading a book'' portrays a zebra in a messy kitchen covered with red sauce and a frowning kangaroo reading an upside-down cookbook. The brief text and lively pictures make this a sure hit with the story hour set. The ending, ``Now just close your eyes and draw with your mind'' can easily lead into an art or creative-writing activity.Janet M. Bair, Trumbull Library, CT (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Review by Horn Book Review
'Mice don't join Boy Scouts / And llamas don't shop / And hamsters don't clean with a broom or a mop.' Animals are pictured doing all sorts of outrageous things, and readers are encouraged to unleash their own imaginations to come up with more anthropomorphic antics. The ebullient art complements the quietly funny rhyming text. From HORN BOOK 1995, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Review by Kirkus Book Review
This follow-up to Dogs Don't Wear Sneakers (1993) offers more of the same random, rollicking doggerel--""Horses don't hang glide/Giraffes don't drive cars/And you won't see a piglet saving pennies in jars,"" etc.--matched to busy, literal cartoons filled with animals clothed and posed accordingly. As in If You Give A Moose A Muffin (1991), Numeroff stretches a winning idea, perhaps further than it will go. The first book will create demand for the second, but there are empty calories in this sequel. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
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