Amazon.com Review
It's Thanksgiving morning and Minnie and Moo, beloved bovines of
Minnie and Moo and the Musk of Zorro and
Minnie and Moo Go to Paris, are sipping cocoa and eating cream puffs under an oak tree. "We have so much to be thankful for," says Moo, "and yet I feel a sadness in the air." Her reverie is interrupted by the appearance of Zeke and Zack, two turkeys lurking in the tall grass nearby. "Hide us," they beg. Minnie and Moo direct them (and their 36 suddenly materializing friends) up the oak tree, and the floodgates open. It's the chickens next. "The food chain... get it? No turkey... chicken is next," says the cocky rooster. Soon the chickens are up the tree, and then a duck, six geese, two pigs, a flock of sheep, and an ostrich. When the farmers finally arrive for their Thanksgiving picnic (with a tofu loaf shaped like a turkey), they discover the first-ever Thanksgiving tree, which mysteriously produces ostrich eggs and milk on demand. By the end of the day, everyone has plenty to be thankful for, and no one on the food chain (except the tofu) has been consumed.
Denys Cazet's mischievous wit and droll watercolors are pure delight for readers young and old. Minnie and Moo are magnets for comical misunderstandings. Page after page, beginning readers will be happily pulled along on their silly adventures. (Ages 5 to 8) --Emilie Coulter
From School Library Journal
Grade 1-2-Minnie and Moo, those cream-puff eating cows, are back with another misadventure. The turkeys are nervous on Thanksgiving morning, and the cows send them to hide in a tall oak tree. Next, the chickens worry about what will happen if the farmer can't find the turkeys, and so on and on until all of the farm's livestock are hiding among its branches. The animals needn't worry, though, for Mrs. Farmer has prepared a tofu loaf in the shape of a turkey, and the family and their guests settle down for a Thanksgiving picnic beneath this tree. Newly independent readers will appreciate the large print, four or five sentences per page, and four-page "chapters." As in Cazet's earlier titles about this bovine pair, silliness reigns supreme in the illustrations and in the far-fetched plot.
Sharon R. Pearce, Geronimo Public School, OK Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
