Mrs. Brown Went to Town

by Wong Herbert Yee

Overview

When Mrs. Brown gets in an accident and lands in the hospital, the animals on her farm decide to move into her house. Chaos ensues and when Mrs. Brown does return home, there are many surprises in store for her.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780547562483
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	03/13/1996
Sold by:	HARPERCOLLINS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	32
Lexile:	NP (what's this?)
File size:	14 MB
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Age Range:	5 - 8 Years

About the Author

Wong Herbert Yee lives in Michigan, where he writes and illustrates books for children including the Mouse and Mole series and the Fireman Small series. For a complete list of books by Wong Herbert Yee, visit houghtonmifflinbooks.com. For more information about Wong, visit his Web site at hometown.aol.com/wongherbertyee/

Editorial Reviews

K-Gr 2Mrs. Brown has an accident while riding her bicycle and ends up in the hospital. While she's away, her animals (a cow, two pigs, three ducks, and a yak) move into her house and wreak havoc, flushing the toilet 100 times, sliding down the banister, and trying on the woman's clothes. Tired out, they all fall asleep in her bed. Mrs. Brown comes home and climbs into bed, not noticing them. The floor collapses, evidently with their combined weight. Now they and their owner live in the barn out back. The story is told in unmemorable doggerel verse that is often rhythmically awkward. The author does, however, focus on the kind of antics that children may find amusing. More successful than the text, the watercolor cartoons extend the story and add humor. In all, this is an additional purchase. David McPhail's Pigs Aplenty, Pigs Galore (Dutton, 1993) has a more skillful rhyming text and is a funnier tale about animals invading the house.Karen James, Louisville Free Public Library, KY

School Library Journal

The artwork is a delight in this silly, rhyming tale. After a collision with a terrier and a fire hydrant lands Mrs. Brown in the hospital, her barnyard friends unanimously vote to move into her house. Domestic mayhem ensues as a cow, two pigs, three ducks, and a yak wreak havoc from one end of her A-frame to the other. The naive watercolors are rich (but never busy) with details amd patterns. They feature such absurd charms as a yak struggling with a blow-dryer, a cow wearing a toilet plunger, and bed-jumping Olympics. Child-appeal galore.

Julie Corsaro

"Yee's lighthearted illustrations match his verse, which chronicles an astonishing upheaval. . . . First-rate silliness . . . the more improbable the situations, the more readers will be laughing out loud." Kirkus Reviews

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