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Gobble, Quack, Moon
Another award-winning musical book by Matthew Gollub. Includes CD AND FREE AUDIO DOWNLOAD featuring the author's rhythmic narration! Tired of the same old life on the farm, Katie the Cow wants to dance on the moon! Donkey, Duck, Turkey and other barn mates help her build a rocket of old cans and glue. Together, they blast off, enjoy a lunar ballet and dance party. But, in their excitement, they forget to bring food! It's feed time when they return to the farm, and the good Farmer Beth had no idea they were away. Snuggling down for the night, they realize there is no place like home! Read along, giggle along, dance along to this beautifully illustrated rhythmic narration set to rhythm and blues, waltzes and rock 'n' roll.
32 pages, Hardcover
First published April 1, 2002
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November 26, 2023
The barnyard animals left home to see what it was like on the moon proving to themselves the grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence.
Copyright 2002
Copyright 2002
December 7, 2016
My Review:
1. This book did not receive any awards.
2. This is suitable for PreK-2nd grade.
3. This book is about all these farm animals that are getting a little tired of their lives on planet Earth. They decide to build a rocket ship and they made a journey to the moon. They did make it and had a dance party, but eventually, they realized that theres no place like home. They made a trip back home and were happy with where they were.
4. I believed that this book wasn't the greatest, however, it wasn't the worst either. I enjoyed the silliness of the usage of animals in the book and I also enjoyed how caring the animals were for Katie. They noticed she was bored on the barn so they did something for her to make her feel better. The illustrations in the book were not my favorite, but overall, it is a very average book.
5. Since this book comes with an audio CD, an in class use could include a small dance party while listening to the reading of the book. Every time they hear a certain repetitive line, they could get up and dance. Another in class use is that students can draw pictures of themselves in their own rocket ships that they would build and draw what they think the moon would look like if they were to fly there. This could then transition into a whole science lesson about outer space.
1. This book did not receive any awards.
2. This is suitable for PreK-2nd grade.
3. This book is about all these farm animals that are getting a little tired of their lives on planet Earth. They decide to build a rocket ship and they made a journey to the moon. They did make it and had a dance party, but eventually, they realized that theres no place like home. They made a trip back home and were happy with where they were.
4. I believed that this book wasn't the greatest, however, it wasn't the worst either. I enjoyed the silliness of the usage of animals in the book and I also enjoyed how caring the animals were for Katie. They noticed she was bored on the barn so they did something for her to make her feel better. The illustrations in the book were not my favorite, but overall, it is a very average book.
5. Since this book comes with an audio CD, an in class use could include a small dance party while listening to the reading of the book. Every time they hear a certain repetitive line, they could get up and dance. Another in class use is that students can draw pictures of themselves in their own rocket ships that they would build and draw what they think the moon would look like if they were to fly there. This could then transition into a whole science lesson about outer space.
February 14, 2010
I listened to Matthew Gollub's book Gobble, Quack, Moon written for kindergarden and first graders. The story tells of Katie the cow who has aspirations to leave the farm and dance a ballet on the moon, in a tutu. With the help of her farm family they build a rocket that takes them to the moon, where they dance and have fun until they realize how much more they have on Earth. The audio version was sung by the author himself, and while it was cute at the beginning, the sing-songy nature became a little hard to take for very long. This would be a good book to use for storytime in the classroom, although the audio version slows down the rythm of the story, therefore I would suggest the use of only the book and not the accompanying audio.
July 13, 2012
This is a very cute book with lots of the a great beat. I think it would be best read to a very small group of kids or one-on-one. Read to a big group there is a place that seems to stumble into a crater just like Katie. The CD, well I didn't like it much; it was much too slow for my taste. All in all a good book.
November 13, 2007
I had so much fun reading this book to my kids! Even my one year old was laughing.
February 2, 2009
Cute, great illustrations and best of all it comes with a cd.
February 28, 2009
Great book! great music too! I'll show it to my students this year....
May 15, 2012
36 months - a pretty crazy rhyming story that takes farm animals on a wild ride. Nicely illustrated.
June 24, 2014
didn't listen to the CD, but the book is ridiculous and super cute :)
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