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Kindergarten-Grade 3–The Siamese cat from Skippyjon Jones (Dutton, 2003) that thinks he's a Chihuahua returns in another adventure. Sent to his room by his mother for drawing on the walls, the feline puts on a mask and cape and then sings in a Spanish accent: "Oh, my name is Skippito Friskito/And I heard from a leetle birdito/That the doggies have fled/From the gobbling head/Who goes by the name Bobble-ito!" He then boards his skateboard and rolls into his closet, eventually arriving at a shack where he finds his Chihuahua friends. They explain that their home has been invaded ("Yesterday morning we left the house to buy some beans…when we returned, a Bobble-ito was in la casa perrito") and ask for his help. He solves the problem by grabbing the intruder and stuffing it into his pants. At story's end, Mama checks on Skippyjon and finds him wrapped in a blanket and talking to his sister's bobblehead doll. Schachner's ink-and-acrylic illustrations create the madcap surrealistic world Skippyjon inhabits, but the narrative offers little more than bad verse, confused plotting, and Taco Bell-style expressions–a fact underscored by the accompanying CD of the author reading her two Skippyjon tales. For rhyming dog stories, skip this doggerel and stay with the antics of Lynley Dodd's "Hairy Maclary" books (Tricycle).– Kathleen Whalin, York Public Library, ME
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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We know for certain that your kid will love hearing you read it aloud. (Time Out New York Kids)
Ole to the greatest poco perrito; he’s as full of beans as in the first escapade. (Kirkus Reviews)
This is a wonderful choice for story time or a fun bedtime read-aloud. (Bookpage)
Ole to the greatest poco perrito; he’s as full of beans as in the first escapade. (Kirkus Reviews)
This is a wonderful choice for story time or a fun bedtime read-aloud. (Bookpage)
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Between the hours of 1 P.M. and 3 P.M., Skippyjon Jones created his finest piece of artwork ever. Read the first page
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Piece of crap,
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Ce commentaire est de: Skippyjon Jones in the Doghouse (Paperback)
We loved the original--the one with Alfredo Buzzito but this one read like it was a train of though. It really didn't make much sense at all and I felt that I could have written it. I get the sense that this author wrote one great book and then decided to mail the rest in.
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Ce commentaire est de: Skippyjon Jones In The Doghouse Book (Hardcover)
A few months ago I found the Skippyjon Jones and Skippyjon Jones in the Doghouse books at a local bookstore. I bought them and took them to my Kindergarten classroom, where they became an immediate success! I have read both books at least twice a day for the past three months, and I'm not tired of them yet!Skippyjon Jones is a little Siamese cat who thinks he is a Chihuahua. He is mischievous, and quite like a five-year-old boy. When he gets into trouble with his Mama Junebug Jones, he is sent to his room to think. While in his room, he enters his closet and lets his imagination take him down to old Mexico where he meets up with his friends Los Chimichangos. They go on adventures together, in the first book El Skippito Friskito (Skippyjon) is in search of the great Bumblebeeto Bandito, and in the second he saves his friends from the Bobble-ito. The pictures are amazing and give my students much to look at and talk about. The writing is entertaining and interactive, as the Chimichangos sing songs that require the reader/audience to clap repeat phrases. It is especially entertaining if the reader can use a faux Spanish accent while the action is taking place in Old Mexico. This is an amazing book; I am looking forward to the author putting out more Skippyjon adventures. I encourage anyone with children, or who spends time with children to invest in these books.
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Ce commentaire est de: Skippyjon Jones in the Doghouse (Paperback)
The original skippyjon book is amazing this book was quite terrible. The adventure he was on was confusing, the songs were all jumbled the hero draws all over his mothers walls, we read this once and it is already in the out box headed for charity, a very bad purchase.
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