Type of bind: Hardcover
EAN num: 9780517800096
ISBN number: 0517800098
Label: Crown Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer: Crown Books for Young Readers
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 32
Printing Date: October 10, 2000
Publishing house: Crown Books for Young Readers
Age index: Ages 4-8
Release Date: October 10, 2000
Sale Popularity Level: 1731922
Studio: Crown Books for Young Readers
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One August night, cake-bake hot, Carmela can’t get to sleep. So she and Daddy get into their car for a little drive. Vroomaloom zoom vrroom vrroom! They take a fantasy ride past farms (cackle lackle), through woods (whoo whoo), to the sea (splash dash wave crash). “Are you ready for sleep?” asks Daddy. “Not yet. Keep driving,” says Carmela. So on they go by swamps, over streams, around waterfalls, forward, backward, sideways, and around in circles. Finally, Carmela’s eyes close. She must be ready to sleep. “Not yet, Daddy. Keep driving.” Vroomaloom zoomaloom vrroom vrroom. With its inventive use of language and irresistible refrain, this send-up of a familiar family problem will tickle the fancies of parents and children.
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If you have ever read to a child, you know how much they love silly stuff. The sillier, the better! The author puts his imagination to work, coming up with silly non-words to give the reader a pronunciation workout and the listener a laugh. Giggles are guaranteed. The illustrations are lovely, with note-quite-bold colors and broadly drawn scenes as a father takes his daughter on a nighttime ride to try to help her fall asleep.
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This was seriously one of the stupidest book I have ever read. I understand the use of the different sounds and such, but they were done in a very poor manner. I think the book is a little extreme and has no real story to it.
I wouldn't recommend this book. It seems like it does a lot of baby-talk and even as a baby, my parents didn't talk to me that way. I feel that by doing so, to some degree, you are insulting children's capacity and ability to learn.
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Young children just tumbling to the delights of language, and parents who know the struggles of trying to get children to sleep, ought to enjoy John Coy's ``Vroomaloom Zoom.'' This short, colorful reader involves Carmela, a young girl, and her father who set out for a fanciful drive in the car. Dad wears a leather cap and goggles and urges his daughter to bring along her blanket in case she falls asleep. As they drive past chicken farms, to the sea and through alligator-infested swamps, rhyming all the way, Dad can never quite Carmela to drop off to sleep. Even so, this ought to be a good bedtime read -- one that parents and kids can read together and aloud. The language begs to be spoken and the illustrations are colorful and fun.
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