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Minnie and Moo and the Thanksgiving Tree

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This humourous and clever Thanksgiving tale leaves you chuckling about another cow mishap!! My preschool and early elementary children are valiant followers of Minnie and Moo. So when almost all the animals on the farm end up in a most unpredictable place, the kids read fast to the finish line to see how the cows will resolve the mess they cook up. It's delightful and does the trick to entrance my kids to read a good story more than once.

It is very difficult to find a book so motivational that kids want to finish the book before doing anything else. Minnie and Moo chapter books help young readers develop fluency and decoding skills as they laugh at the hilarious antics the animals are involved in. This Thanksgiving story is unique and helps in the teaching of point of view.

Below is a student's personal review of the book.

"When I first started reading, I was slow and I did not like reading.. I thought it was hard, but when I read Minnie and Moo I started to like to read more. I thought it was funny and laughed so hard till I cried. When I read the books the time goes fast. The best part of this book was when so many animals hid in the tree and someone reached up and squeezed milk from the cow and thought it was a milk tree."

Cazet's books not only build confidence for emergent readers, but they have subtle humor and let you ask some simple questions about plot that aren't simply written in the story. The children loved the story, the characters and were hooked on reading other books by the same author. I read this with my first year (grade) students.

This is the wackiest easy reader ever published! We've successfully adapted this one for the stage so that our middle schoolers can perform it for the K-2 students who, in turn, can utilize the actual book in learning to read. The laugh-out-loud tale involves all the animals hiding up a tree because the turkeys have gone missing and...well, you know, the food chain -- if there is no turkey for Thanksgiving then who is going to be next in line. It doesn't matter how many times I hear the line, I fall over laughing when one of the city cousins tugs hard on a curly tail in the tree and brightly exclaims, "I picked a pig!"

My grandchidren (4 & 5) and I are Minnie and Moo addicts. We laugh a lot when we read these books together. This Thanksgiving story is no disappointment. The idea of all these animals in the "old oak tree" is funny enough. Then, when the Farmers bring their guests to the tree for a Thanksgiving picnic we had tears in our eyes from laughing.

These books are wonderful read alouds as well as great beginning reader stories. You will want more after reading this book. It is tied with "Night of the Living Bed" in our house.

I love Minnie and Moo. Who could resist a cream puff addicted cow? Not me. Anyway, like the other books in the "Minnie and Moo" universe this is another story filled with silly fun and is quirkily different from most Thanksgiving stories. It's Thanksgiving and bovines Minnie and Moo are relaxing beneath a tree sipping away on hot cocoa and nibbling on cream puffs when thirty-six frantic turkeys beg need of their help. It's Thanksgiving and Mrs. Farmer's cousins are about for a visit. The turkeys, being turkeys, fear for their lives! Minnie and Moo hide the tribe of turkeys in the tree and settle in to finish their snack when they're accosted by a rather rude rooster and his flock of chickens who demand help. They're next in line in the food chain, you see. Before you know it Minnie and Moo have quite the zoo hidden within the tree. Happy chaos ensues as the farmer and his family decide to picnic beneath the tree.

Light, fluffy and filled with laughs this a good pick if your brain is a little drained and the kids are stressed.

Misleading advertising. Arrived as a small paperback the price of a hardbound. Extremely disappointed.