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Old Macdonald

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This imaginative book takes a traditional children's favorite and enhances it with bold colorful pictures and a big surprise ending. It quickly became a favorite for my two-year-olds--so much so that it became sort of a family ritual to make singing this book the last thing they did before going to bed each night. Simple but smart, this book is suitable for toddlers and for older kids, who will better appreciate the comical ending.

This is an amusing rendition of "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" with flaps to lift for responses. "Old MacDonald had a farm, E I E I O And on that farm he had a..." A picture on the flap shows a partial red wagon, and when the flap is opened, there appears the whole wagon with a duck in it. Now the traditional refrain kicks in, "With a Quack Quack here, etc. Next, in a funny picture the farmer runs along with a baby buggy. When the reader opens the flap, there is a pig, "With an Oink Oink here," Children will sing along and a surprise ending makes this a fun book to share with an audience both young and older.