If the S in Moose Comes Loose

(Hardback)

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*A Bank Street College of Education Best Childrens Books of the Year*

Spelling has never been so zany! When the S in MOOSE comes loose, Cow must find the missing letters and glue MOOSE back together! Perfect for fans of Michael Hall and Sandra Boynton.

Rollicking, clever, and a great way to have fun with letters, If the S in Moose Comes Loose is a seriously wild ride from start to finish.

When two of Mooses letters come loose, he vanishes. Poof! But his best friend, Cow, has an idea: shell find a G, an L, a U, and an E and glue M-O-O-S-E back together, better than ever! But its not as easy as it sounds....

Author Peter Hermann is not only a debut picture book author, he also plays publisher Charles Brooks on TV Lands hit show Younger. Matthew Cordell is the acclaimed author and illustrator of the 2018 Caldecott winnerWolf in the Snow and has written and/or illustrated dozens of other books for children.

If the S in MOOSE comes loose
and the E breaks free . . . whats left
M-O-O!

Reviews

Hermanns fast-paced romp will likely leave readers laughing and spelling along. Cordells illustrations, rendered in pen and ink and watercolor, match the kinetic pace of the tale. His animals are loosely drawn and delightfully expressive. Kirkus Reviews Little listeners and beginning readers alike will enjoy the rhyme and wordplay. Kirkus Reviews Cordell (The Only Fish in the Sea) excels at drawing animals in the grip of powerful emotions, but always with the sense that theyre fundamentally decent creatures. Hermanns verse never skips a beat, and the transformation of everyday objects into new things supplies a string of guffaws. Publishers Weekly The premise recalls Escoffiers Wheres the BabOOn (BCCB 1/16), and Hermann brings an extra helping of high-energy silliness to Cows pell-mell procession. Bulletin of the Center for Childrens Books Cordells line and watercolor art is zippy perfection, his familiar loose-limbed scribbles adding a sense of barely contained chaos as Cow bipedally scampers through the scenes. Bulletin of the Center for Childrens Books This is orthographical humor at its best, and it could inspire a freestanding swap-one-letter game once the book closes. Bulletin of the Center for Childrens Books

Author Bio

Peter Hermann is an actor and writer who has loved words that rhyme ever since he recited Shel Silversteins If the World Was Crazy in his fourth-grade poetry contest. When hes not rhyming, he plays book publisher Charles Brooks on TV Lands hit show Younger. He lives in New York with his wife and their three children. Matthew Cordell is the acclaimed author and illustrator of the 2018 Caldecott winnerWolf in the Snow. He is also the author and illustrator of Trouble Gum and the illustrator of If the S in Moose Comes Loose,Toot Toot Zoom!, Mighty Casey, Righty and Lefty, and Toby and the Snowflakes, which was written by his wife. Matthew lives in the suburbs of Chicago with his wife, writer Julie Halpern, and their daughter, Romy.