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In Choo Choo, double-page spreads announce each featured vehicle ("Big red fire truck speeding to a fire") and corresponding sound ("honk honk honk"); in Moo, the format is reprised, except posturing animals make the sounds. It's hard to imagine the youngest of readers not responding to each book's noises, bright outsize images, and final, cumulative visual and aural collision. [Review covers these titles: Can You Choo Choo? and Can You Moo?.]