Do Cows Meow?

A Lift-the-Flap Book

by Salina Yoon

Moo, meow, BAA! Kids will have a blast as they lift the flaps to learn lots of barnyard animal sounds.

Do cows sing? Do cows cuckoo? All I know is cows go . . . MOO! Simple, rhythmic, and lots of fun, this big, brightly illustrated board book will have kids happily imitating all kinds of animal “talk.” For each creature--including a sheep, duck, frog, and cat—a giant “mouth” flap lifts up to reveal a new animal sound that will surely inspire a symphony of baa-ing, ribbiting, and meowing. And, at the end, children can open two barnyard gates to see and say all the animal sounds again.

Genres: Picture Books, Animals, Storytime, Childrens, Fiction, Horses, Cats

18 pages, Board Book

First published September 4, 2012

About the author

Salina Yoon is an award-winning author/illustrator of over 150 books for children, including Penguin and Pinecone, Penguin on Vacation, Penguin in Love, Penguin and Pumpkin, Penguin's Big Adventure, Found, and Stormy Night.

Her latest book, Be a Friend, was a Winter 2015-2016 Kids' Indie Next Pick. Among her other awards are a Scholastic Teachers Top 10 Picture Book for Penguin's Big Adventure, and an NPR Best Book and 2014 SCIBA Book Award for Best Picture Book for Found. (complete list is on the website ABOUT page)

She studied art and design at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, and now lives in San Diego with her family.

www.salinayoon.com

Reviews

[Sammy N]

I’m not stupid…. I know that cows do not meow.

[Morgan Echtenkamp]

This book is adorable and perfect for early literacy! Each page is a little four line rhyming sequence. For the last rhyme you open the animals mouth for the sound. The pictures and huge mouths to open make this so fun to read!

[Amanda]

A hit at toddler storytime, good for rhyming and animal sounds. Lift the flap mouths.

[Emma Refvem]

Very fun and cute - Bats thinks they all say “meow” though

[Penelope]

So much fun reading and yelling the animal noises while we lift the mouth flaps. Every toddler library needs this!

[Emily]

The book itself gets 5 stars but the title makes no sense. At no point in this story do ANY of these animals make a different animal noise.

[Elizabeth Moreau Nicolai]

HUGE HIT at babytime! The parents were reading it aloud. The babies were fascinated by the flaps. Fantastic bright colors and clear photos. One of my new all time favorites!

[Heidi-Marie]

I used this in Movement storytime. That group really loves lift-the-flap, and there are children old enough who picked up on what the animal says as well as that it rhymed with a previous word. I have to admit that some of the flaps were a little "uh" with how the animal mouths were portrayed. (Very big. A little scary.) But the kids loved it and it worked well.

[Cheriee Weichel]

This is Ada’s favourite book these days. It’s a bit bigger than most of her books and has flaps to lift. She even gives me time to read the rhymes if I go really really fast. The last pages where they folds out to show all the animals is a big hit!

[Elizabeth]

Short, loud and actually not annoying when read approximately 40 times before nap time!
So many hours spent exploring this book. This is a MUST READ for any parent.
This is my go to present for any toddler size celebration!

[Elisabeth]

Super big hit with the babies. Yay for big board books - let's continue this trend everyone!

[Emily]

A fun rhyming lift-the-flap book with different animals. The bright pictures and rhyming text makes this a really fun and fast read-a-loud/storytime book!

[Susan]

Isaac loves this and it's perfect for him right now. he giggles and says, "funny!" when I make the animal sounds.

[John Yelverton]

It is an incredibly simplistic children's book that simply shows your child the different sounds that animals make.

[Bekele Hall]

A while ago during shopping I heard some Mexican girls--all younger than 12 yr old, sure--screaming about something suddenly. I forgot what it was about. But I saw that it was like five kids who look similar and hella cute. Three of them aged from 9-12. And two other from 4-7 yr old maybe. They were with two Mexican women who looked like they were sisters who got stuck in the devil's country. Even though they tried to hold the smile on their faces, but it was visible.
It is always visible when you see these books written by the 'people of colors'. When they write for the white milk-men. And then they try to suck the milk drop by drop. And then probably that's still not enough because their drug-addict husbands have left them with five daughters to feed on their own.
While I feel sad for these girls, I also wonder, sometimes, that these people were once the Aztecs. And America, in fact, the whole California used to belong to them.
I love history.
And I always feel sad when the history turns over to show the exactly opposite sides of the coin. The old glory flipped over and showing off the exact opposite, weakling sides of you. I hope these once-glorious-people of color from all over the world with lost glories can somehow really find out who they were once. I mean, i know it's kinda seems impossible for them right now with five or seven kids to handle at home--all of whom might not be your own kids in the end. They may be your nieces, or sisters or cousins. But you all will find out who you were and what's keeping you in shackles when you can look into more than several things at the same time.
God bless you, pocs, who are having to slave for them such disrespectfully. I can't imagine how must that feel like in your dignity.

[Brett]

Lots of Kids books gonna be on this feed in the next few years since I'm Daddin' hard so be warned.

The simple and broad artwork doesn't really do much for me but it certainly is fun to open the animals' mouths and check out their teeth and written sound. It's also very fun to just make the animal sounds with baby. Best part is the last page where the child is intended to point out each animal by name.

[Amy Oberts]

Vibrant illustrations, punctuated by interactive flaps and rhyming text, make this an ideal read aloud for younger audiences. The final spread had story hour attendees "oooh"-ing and "ahhh"-ing with glee!

[Vivian]

Lift-the-flaps, rhyming clues, animal sounds, bold and comical illustrations, bright polka-dot backgrounds for the text in a mix of six different colors, WOW!

Animals include a sheep, a cow, a pig, a mouse, a duck, a horse, a cat, and a frog.

[Beckie]

Loved by the 2 year old. Great board flap book for learning/sharpening animal sounds.

[Milton Louie]

What do the animals say? B

[J]

Great lift the flap book!

[Miss Sarah]

A cute lift the flap book that asks silly questions that rhyme about famr animals and then has them flap open their mouth and make a sound. Baby and up

[Brittany]

A cute flip-flap book. All of the kids loved it and were paying attention.

[Kady]

Lifting flaps, making noises, naming animals -- this hits all the toddler sweet spots.

[Alyssa]

Probably will use for storytime.

[Amy]

Holy shit, y'all... a crowd pleaser. My 15 month old now makes animal sounds because of this book. Caldecott this bitch!

[Katie]

The story is cute but the flaps themselves are so flimsy that this can only be read a few times.

[Robin]

A bit too easy for a 4 year old but the flaps keep it fun.

[Elizabeth Reynolds]

My twins are obsessed with this book and have been since they were 6 months old. They love the animals and the large scale of the book! It’s a perfect, simple read aloud.

[Heather]

The illustrations are very bright and graphic. The flaps have held up well (better than the binding). The two and three year old set will like this especially if you do the animal sounds as you read.