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Mama Don't Allow

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Every parent knows that children depend on certain books being read to them ritualistically nearly every evening at bedtime. This was for a very long time one of those books for my daughter and me. The story is delightful. Miles lives in a swamp and loves to play music. But his mother hates his music, and chases him away from the house whenever he plays. Going further into the swamp, he finds a number of others who also can't play their music at home, and they form a swamp band. As they are playing, they are overheard by an alligator, who instead of eating them, invites them all onto a riverboat to play for the alligator ball! They go, they play, are a bit hit, and are about to become a bigger hit, because the main item on the menu that night is Swamp Band Soup! The band escapes.

The illustrations are just extraordinary. My daughter's favorite were the two pages that showed first all the alligators going onto the riverboat, and then the two pages that showed them all dancing at the alligator ball to the Swamp Band singing their song "Mama Don't Allow Any Music Playing in Here."

I have recommended this book to other parents, and they all report that their kids loved it just as much as mine did. This book is best suited for children between the ages of two and six. Good story, great illustrations, and it helps if you can come up with a nifty little tune to go with the lyrics of the song.

My kids love this book -- each of them, in turn, has been enthralled by the story of Miles, the little badger whose saxophone playing is too awful for his mama to allow it in the house, but who lands a gig playing for some hungry alligators. By dint of his clever and melodious playing, Miles saves himself and his band from becoming the soup du jour, and mama hears the swamp lullaby he's playing and says, "Oh, how nice..." The pictures are richly colored and amusing, and this should take its place among your favorite books.

Hi, today I'm going to tell you about a geat book I just read. It is call ''Mama Don't Allow'' . The book is about some kids that live in Swampville and want to be in a band together. They called their self the Swamp Band .The Swamp Band playes for the alligators.But I won't tell the ending.The lesson in the is do what say and you won't get hurt. I feel this is a good book for anyone. Ilove the book it was great.The end.

This is such a fun book to read. My grandchildren really enjoy hearing it, and I find myself singing parts of it.

"Mama Don't Allow" has been a treasured story at our house for many years. It was a gift from a dear friend, and both of my children (a boy and a girl) list it as one of their all-time-favorite stories from childhood. It's clever, it's funny, they used to look at the illustrations for hours, and they absolutely love how it ends. My kids are teenagers now, and still they will pick up this book every once in a while a re-read it for the billionth time with a big grin on their face. Today I'm purchasing the book for one of the ladies in our neighborhood book club who had a baby. We are all giving her a "book shower" to start a little library for her son... who's name is "Miles". Oh, how nice!