I read this one by myself as soon as I got it and thought, “Oooo-kaaaay. Maybe on the second time through…”Then I called over the resident 7-year-old. “Hey, Bud! Read this with me?”
Magic. Giggles. “Again, again!” Here’s how it went:
The Boy [reading]: “Hey, look! A duck!”
Me [reading]: “That’s not a duck. That’s a rabbit!”
The Boy [not reading]: Huh, huh, huh-huh, huh.
Later…
The Boy [reading]: “Wait. Listen. Did you hear that? I heard duck sounds. Quack.”
Me [reading]: “That’s funny. I distinctly heard rabbit sounds. Sniff, sniff.”
The Boy [not reading]: Huh, huh, huh-huh, huh.
And that’s how it went. He read the duck arguments, then I read the rabbit arguments, then he giggled. (Then I giggled.) Grown-ups are … we’re just so … grown up! Grown-ups don’t get it, or so my unscientific observations seem to indicate, but kids do, and that’s what matters. We’ve read it numerous times now, he keeps laughing, and his reading keeps getting more and more expressive. When he reads, “There, see? It’s flying!” he means it.
Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Tom Lichtenheld have created another winner for the classroom. Duck! Rabbit! will work great as a partner read (just like Elephant and Piggie books). It also could lead into some great art projects centered on optical illusions or even entirely new books. Imagine this:Kid One [reading]: “Hey, look! A vase!”
Kid Two [reading]: “That’s not a vase. That’s two kids lookin’ at each other!”
Kids One and Two [not reading]: Huh, huh, huh-huh, huh.
And finally, to wrap it all up (and really, would you expect anything less from me?), the all-time, greatest ever, classic Duck! Rabbit! debate:
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