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Vernick, Audrey

Teach Your Buffalo to Play Drums

32 pp. | HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray | July, 2011 | Trade ISBN 978-0-06-176253-6 $16.99
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Daniel Jennewein. In this follow-up to Is Your Buffalo Ready for Kindergarten?, an offstage narrator spends the book cajoling a girl to indulge her pet buffalo's yen for drum lessons ("Encourage him!"). The book owes a nod to the If You Give a Mouse a Cookie franchise, but Vernick sustains her riff nicely. Jennewein gets it and makes the characters harmless-looking, fun-loving goofballs.
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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