- Library Binding: 32 pages
- Publisher: Crown Books for Young Readers (Oct 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0517800101
- ISBN-13: 978-0517800102
- Product Dimensions: 25.7 x 20.3 x 1.3 cm
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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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Finally, an excuse to practice car noises
2 Jan 2001
Format:Hardcover
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.
The usual thing
22 Jan 2011
Format:Paperback
I get so excited about books like this - where the parent and the child have so much fun together. Best of all, it's a DAD in this book - dads are so important.
But we have so MANY books where the words are rhythmic - "Vroomaloom Zoom - cackle lackle - splash dash wave crash" - it just doesn't seem special anymore.
Anyway, this is a fun sleepytime book about a girl and her daddy, with excellent illustrations
But we have so MANY books where the words are rhythmic - "Vroomaloom Zoom - cackle lackle - splash dash wave crash" - it just doesn't seem special anymore.
Anyway, this is a fun sleepytime book about a girl and her daddy, with excellent illustrations
Silly Noises to Make Your Child Smile
22 Sep 2005
Format:Paperback
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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