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PreS-Gr 2 Taback is very, very clever. He takes the house element of the story literally by turning the endpapers and back cover into newspaper advertisements, offering real estate and tools to fix a house. The adventure inside is downright hilarious. "This is the cheese that lay in the house" elicits an entire page on which various cheeses are not only named ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Taback's version of the age-old cumulative rhyme is an explosion of color, energy, zaniness, and pore-over-able detail. Left-hand pages introduce each new item/animal/person in Jack's house. The "this is the cow with the crumpled horn" page features a large portrait of the cow with a helpful arrow pointing toward the crumpled horn; fanciful labels identifying hoof, udder, rump, and "whopper w/ cheese"; and a surrounding assortment of products made from cow's milk. Right-hand pages continue the ver...Log In or Sign Up to Read More