Review: Cows Can’t Jump by Dave Reisman
Reviewed by Alysia George
Children will enjoy learning about the different things various animals are capable (and incapable) of doing in Cows Can’t Jump, a funny picture book geared toward the preschool crowd. Younger and older siblings will also like listening in during story time. With only three or four words on each page, Cows Can’t Jump would also be a great choice for older siblings to read to little brothers or sisters, or for new readers to practice their fresh reading skills. Since the text is scarce, Mom and Dad won’t mind when they are called upon to read it repeatedly. The humorous, colorful illustrations have a textured canvas look to them that make you want to run your fingers across the pages.
There is a repetitive theme throughout the book (cows can’t jump, but they can ____, and so on), which makes it perfect for engaging young listeners. Cows Can’t Jump uses many descriptive verbs that aren’t generally used in everyday conversation, so children will have the opportunity to lean some new vocabulary.
Cows Can’t Jump held the interest of my 22-month old and four and a half year old daughters. They thought it was silly and they liked looking at the pictures. My older daughter had many questions pertaining to the meanings of the verbs used in the book. As a parent, I appreciate opportunities to teach my children new words in context; and for them to learn new facts, in this case about animals. Making my children laugh while they are learning is an added bonus!
Rating: 4/5
Alysia lives in Metro Detroit with her husband and four children. She writes about family life, parenting issues, and other things of interest to her on her blog, Michigal.
Review copy was provided free of any obligation by Jumping Cow Press. No monetary or any other form of compensation was received.
Category: Ages 11 and Under, Children's Books, For Kids, Gift Ideas
This sounds like a great book for kids! I also didn’t know that cows can’t jump! I will keep an eye out for this for my son…I love when I can have something for us to read together (or now that he is getting older for him to read himself
) that also teaches him something. Thanks for the review!
I didn’t know cows can’t jump! I like fun and engaging kids books that also provide facts in a different way. Sounds like a great book.
Mixing humor with learning is wonderful. If you can make good memories connected with reading when a kid is young, that kid will be a reader for life.
Carol Wong
Sounds like a good little books for kids. My daughter loved to have me read Dr.Seuss books to her when she was younger and reading to your kids is a great way to get them started on their way to reading, which is always good for them to get started early in childhoos since it will make things in school much easier if they can read proficiently. My favorite book when I was a kid was Where The Wild Things Are…I’ve always had a fascination with monsters it seems. lol
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