Look for ready guffaws from young audiences, whether read or sung, though those attuned to disability stereotypes may find themselves wincing instead or as well. Even though the book has no included soundtrack, the sly, high-spirited, eye patch–sporting donkey that grins, winks, farts, and clumps its way through the song on a prosthetic metal hoof in Cowley’s informal watercolors supplies comical visual flourishes for the silly wordplay. It is three-legged, and so a “wonky donkey” that, on further examination, has but one eye and so is a “winky wonky donkey” with a taste for country music and therefore a “honky-tonky winky wonky donkey,” and so on to a final characterization as a “spunky hanky-panky cranky stinky-dinky lanky honky-tonky winky wonky donkey.” A free musical recording (of this version, anyway-the author’s website hints at an adults-only version of the song) is available from the publisher and elsewhere online. In the song, Smith meets a donkey on the road. Little Blue Truck (padded board book) (9780358211785) by Alice Schertle. Leave a Comment Check out my latest book: Button Up: Wrinkled Rhymes This book won the LBH award. get help when were, say, stuck in the muck in a truck. The print version of a knee-slapping cumulative ditty. Alice Schertle Children's Writer and Poet 22 May Button Up: Wrinkled Rhymes Posted by Alice Schertle in Uncategorized. Read reviews and buy El camioncito Azul (Little Blue Truck, Spanish Edition) by Alice Schertle (Board Book) at Target.

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