Review: Ahhh Ahhh Choooooo! By Sharlene Alexander cute little story to entice the use of a child's imagination.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 14, 2014
Ahhh Ahhh Choooooo! By Sharlene Alexander.I gave this children's book four stars. I would have given it five stars had the illustrations been more appealing to me. It's an cleverly written book about a sneezing panda named Pax who sneezes so hard that it could blow him to strange places, one was a jungle that had purple monkeys swinging from trees.Another sneeze sends him to the desert where a lizard is eating cornflakes, then his next sneeze sends him to a very cold place with teeny tiny polar bears. One more sneeze sends him up to the mountains where eagles with bald heads flew, and the last sneeze sent him into a lonely place that had nothing and no one around. He began to cry because he was so lonely.Then his nose tingles with another sneeze & it sent him past all the previous places he had visited (re-naming each one and the animals found there) and even further through doors in a house, up the stairs and into a comfy bed. "He was happy and fell asleep. Good night."There are some fun sneeze facts listed and two games where the goal is to find the objects in the pictures.The repetition of sneezes and of animals and places has the potential for reading aloud changes of voice and demonstration of activities which a toddler could find entertaining.I would have loved reading this cute book to my children. I believe they would have enjoyed learning to read it on their own.