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Vroomaloom Zoom

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Young children just tumbling to the delights of language, and parents who know the struggles of trying to get children to sleep, ought to enjoy John Coy's ``Vroomaloom Zoom.'' This short, colorful reader involves Carmela, a young girl, and her father who set out for a fanciful drive in the car. Dad wears a leather cap and goggles and urges his daughter to bring along her blanket in case she falls asleep. As they drive past chicken farms, to the sea and through alligator-infested swamps, rhyming all the way, Dad can never quite Carmela to drop off to sleep. Even so, this ought to be a good bedtime read -- one that parents and kids can read together and aloud. The language begs to be spoken and the illustrations are colorful and fun.

I get so excited about books like this - where the parent and the child have so much fun together. Best of all, it's a DAD in this book - dads are so important.

But we have so MANY books where the words are rhythmic - "Vroomaloom Zoom - cackle lackle - splash dash wave crash" - it just doesn't seem special anymore.

Anyway, this is a fun sleepytime book about a girl and her daddy, with excellent illustrations

If you have ever read to a child, you know how much they love silly stuff. The sillier, the better! The author puts his imagination to work, coming up with silly non-words to give the reader a pronunciation workout and the listener a laugh. Giggles are guaranteed. The illustrations are lovely, with note-quite-bold colors and broadly drawn scenes as a father takes his daughter on a nighttime ride to try to help her fall asleep.

This was seriously one of the stupidest book I have ever read. I understand the use of the different sounds and such, but they were done in a very poor manner. I think the book is a little extreme and has no real story to it.

I wouldn't recommend this book. It seems like it does a lot of baby-talk and even as a baby, my parents didn't talk to me that way. I feel that by doing so, to some degree, you are insulting children's capacity and ability to learn.