Snipp, Snapp, Snurr and the Buttered Bread [Paperback]

Maj Lindman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1995 | Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up

When Swedish look-alike brothers Snip, Snapp, and Snurr crave butter for their bread, they discover what has to happen for Mother to be able to make it, in this classic step-by-step tale. Reprint.

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About the Author

Lindman is an Albert Whitman author.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 5 and up
  
• Paperback: 32 pages
• Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company (March 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0807574910
• ISBN-13: 978-0807574911
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.7 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #598,713 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An enchanting story that reminds us where milk comes from., February 20, 1998

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This review is from: Snipp, Snapp, Snurr and the Buttered Bread (Paperback)

I first discovered the Snipp, Snapp, and Snurr books when I was a little girl back in the early '60s. Though they were written in the '30s, my six-year-old is as charmed by the three little Swedish boys and their adventures as I was many years ago. This particular story tells how the boys, hungry for a snack, are disappointed that there is no butter for their bread. Their mother sends them for a pail of fresh milk from a neighbor, intending to cream it to make butter. But the boys are disappointed again when Aunt Annie tells them her cow, Blossom, has not been giving any milk lately. Snipp, Snapp, and Snurr cannot coax even a few drops from the gentle cow. Her keeper, Uncle Freddy, tells them she is tired of eating dry hay and is longing for fresh, green grass, but a stretch of gray weather has kept the grass from growing. Undaunted, Snipp, Snapp, and Snurr look for a solution. By the time they are rewarded with slices of bread with homemade butter, the reader has learned how cows transform grass into milk and how people transform the milk into butter. I read this tale to my son's class recently and ended the reading by helping the children make butter by agitating whipping cream in a jar. As the yellow butter began to form, one little boy exclaimed, "It's magic!" Maj Lindman's story is magic, too.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Snipp, Snapp and Snurr learn How Things Get Done, August 29, 2003

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Joshua Koppel (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Snipp, Snapp, Snurr and the Buttered Bread (Paperback)

This is the most fanciful of the Snipp, Snapp Snurr books (or Flicka, Ricka, Dicka) that I have seen. In this one, the three Swedish boys would like some butter for their bread. But there is none in the house.

The boys go on a quest for butter and discover what it takes to create butter. Butter is made from milk witch comes from a cow that eats green grass that needs the Sun to grow. In order to get their butter, they must appeal to the Sun so that it will shine and make the grass grow green and etc. etc.

Each pair of pages has the story on the left and a painted illustration by the author on the right. A fun and fanciful story that helps teach about how things depend on one another.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Snipp, Snapp,and Snurr, September 14, 2005

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This review is from: Snipp, Snapp, Snurr and the Buttered Bread (Paperback)

These books are absolutely wonderful. I remember reading them as a little girl, and now I am sharing them with my two little girls. The Flicka, Ricka, and Dicka books by the same author are also GREAT. Highly reccomended.