Cook-a-Doodle-Doo!

From the Editors

<DIV>Take an old family recipe, add four funny friends, mix in some hilarious cooking confusion, and you have a delicious picture-book treat for children of all ages!<br></div>
Product Description

Customer Response

Love It!
We (6, 8, 43) thought this book was really funny! It's such a great rewrite of Little Red Hen and had all of us in stitches! The informational sidebars were great, as well. Definitely worth multiple reads.

Super funny and educational
This book is hilarious. First time I read it to my 4 years old daughter, I laughed by behind off, so did she. The story is so funny itself and illustrations are well supporting the content. The story is also very educational, gives you an explanations on a special fields about different aspects ot making a strawberry shortcake and the recepie at the end. So you can laugh with your child first and then make a cake together.

Fun Story
Delightfully illustrated! The book uses a brown textured background for the splashy, rusty-red of the rooster. (The illustrator created handmade paper using flour, salt, sugar, eggshells and a dish towel according to the book flap) All the animals' faces are very expressive and kids will love the color and motion in the artwork.
The story begins with rooster feeling hungry and hunting up the Little Red Hen's cookbook. He was glad to see she cooked more than just bread, and chose the strawberry shortcake to make.
Following the tradition of the Little Red Hen, he asks a dog, a cat, and a goose to help, but all shun the work of cooking. He does get cooperation, though inexpert, from turtle, iguana and potbellied pig. Children will love the humorous touches in the story and illustrations (turtle puts a cooking pot on his head and iguana wears an oven mitt). Despite their cluelessness, the shortcake gradually gets made. Throughout the process, pig keeps wanting to taste all the ingredients. Iguana keeps misunderstaning the instructions and wants to beat the egg with a baseball bat and picks a flower instead of flour for the mix.
A white border down the side of each page includes additional instruction on cooking techniques for the parent reading the book. At the end is the full recipe for the strawberry shortcake.
There's a surprise ending and the book demonstrates teamwork and sharing besides being a cooking lesson.

Very Cute
Very cute book. I bought it for my one year old- it's way too advanced for her. But when she's about 4-5 yrs old, she'll love it. It also included the recipe in the back so you can spend time together making some delicious strawberry shortcake!

Good book for a Reader's Theater
I made this book into a really fun Reader's Theater. The kids loved it and after it was performed we made strawberry shortcakes.

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