
                            'UH-OH!' SAID THE CROW by Joanne Oppenheim

'UH-OH!' SAID THE CROW

by & illustrated by
Age Range: 4 - 8
Email this review

KIRKUS REVIEW

 The best of Oppenheim's three new entries in the Bank Street Ready-to-Read series: on ``Level 2,'' a reader that creatively combines devices like animal voices and repetitions of words in amusingly varied phrases in a tale about animals frightened by mysterious thumps on their barn roof. ```What was that?' mewed Cat. `I don't know,' cawed Crow. `It's up there,' whinnied Mare.'' An owl hoots, the wind whistles, and the animals nervously imagine ghosts while Sheep baas, ```Go back to sleep' '' and they try vainly to get one of their number to investigate (`` `Not my Job!' grunted Hog''). The solution to the mystery isn't scary after all, but it's satisfyingly funny. Demarest's wide-eyed, freely rendered animal caricatures make the transition from spooky to comical with perfect aplomb. Also available: Row, Row, Row Your Boat (Level 1, ISBN: 0-553-09498- X), a survey of water craft with sometimes awkward variations on the well-known verse; The Christmas Witch (Level 3, ISBN: 0-553- 09392-4), a retelling of the Italian folktale about Befana. (Easy reader. 4-8)

Pub Date: Nov. 1st, 1993
ISBN: 0-553-09387-8
Page count: 32pp
Publisher: Bantam
Review Posted Online:
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Dec. 1st, 1993




MORE BY JOANNE OPPENHEIM

ChildrenTHE KNISH WAR ON RIVINGTON STREET by Joanne Oppenheim
by Joanne Oppenheim
ChildrenTHE PRINCE'S BREAKFAST by Joanne Oppenheim
by Joanne Oppenheim

MORE BY CHRIS DEMAREST

ChildrenALL ABOARD! by Chris Demarest
by Chris Demarest
ChildrenT-REX AT SWAN LAKE by Lisa Carrier
by Lisa Carrier
ChildrenBIKES FOR RENT! by Isaac Olaleye
by Isaac Olaleye
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/joanne-oppenheim/uh-oh-said-the-crow/
www.kirkusreviews.com
crawl=CC-MAIN-2017-30
98846
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:VQM5UR5VFJCJ4H3XFET2PEFZM5R5X4N7
<urn:uuid:1bd021ae-2e25-44dd-9b1a-d615fa3effab>
2017-07-26T13:04:43Z
52.71.244.151
text/html
sha1:ZAXMZ3JDJPM3DDGZMVOIRXVU5HDNBNX2
<urn:uuid:6977f02b-85cf-444f-a449-ece4a9e6707e>
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/joanne-oppenheim/uh-oh-said-the-crow/
response
<urn:uuid:99b5aadf-3c86-4cc5-b98d-26e21a58e929>
robots: classic
hostname: ip-10-164-4-206.ec2.internal
software: Nutch 1.6 (CC)
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2017-30
operator: Common Crawl Admin
description: Wide crawl of the web for July 2017
publisher: Common Crawl
format: WARC File Format 1.0
conformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf