Musk Ox Counts (Musk Ox Series #2)

by Erin Cabatingan, Matthew Myers (Illustrator)

Overview

Fans of A IS FOR MUSK OX will be happy to know that Musk Ox and Zebra are back...and trying to make it through a counting book. As usual, Musk Ox has his own ideas and Zebra does not fail to show his frustration trying to get Musk Ox back on track. Will they make it from 1-10, or will their efforts end in annoyance?

Cabatingan and Myers pair up again in this second in the Musk Ox series. Cabatingan's witty, sharp text mixes perfectly with Myer's grinning anti-hero and hapless zebra.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781466848658
Publisher:	Roaring Brook Press
Publication date:	09/03/2013
Series:	Musk Ox Series , #2
Sold by:	Macmillan
Format:	eBook
Pages:	36
File size:	18 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	5 - 7 Years

About the Author

After a twenty-year career as an award-winning art director, Matthew Myers discovered his true vocation—illustrating picture books. His works for Roaring Brook Press include Tyrannosaurus Dad and A Is for Musk Ox He lives and works in North Carolina.

Erin Cabatingan grew up in Utah. She and her family have lived all over the United States from California to New York to Hawaii and she looks forward to wherever life takes her next. Currently, she lives with her husband and children in Virginia. Musk Ox Counts is her second book for Roaring Brook Press.

Erin Cabatingan grew up in Utah. She and her family have lived all over the United States from California to New York to Hawaii and she looks forward to wherever life takes her next. Currently, she lives with her husband and children in Virginia. Musk Ox Counts is her second book for Roaring Brook Press.
After a twenty-year career as an award-winning art director, Matthew Myers discovered his true vocation—illustrating picture books. His works for Roaring Brook Press include Tyrannosaurus Dad and A Is for Musk Ox.  He lives and works in North Carolina.

Editorial Reviews

In a genuinely funny companion to A Is for Musk Ox (Roaring Brook, 2012), zebra and musk ox are arguing about how to compose a counting, er, "addition" book . . . Will this duo return to wreak havoc with colors, shapes, opposites? One can only hope.” —School Library Journal

“More crazy hijinks from the irrepressible musk ox and his sidekick control-freak zebra will engender belly laughs in Cabatingan and Myers' highly original sequel to the wild and wacky alphabet book A Is for Musk Ox (2012).” —Kirkus Reviews

“A witty addition to the Musk Ox series.” —Booklist

From the Publisher

More crazy hijinks from the irrepressible musk ox and his sidekick control-freak zebra will engender belly laughs in Cabatingan and Myers' highly original sequel to the wild and wacky alphabet book A Is for Musk Ox (2012). Zebra's efforts to establish traditional counting-book order are foiled right from the first page as the musk ox is seen disappearing from his prescribed position as "1 musk ox." Things only gets more zany on 2, where he is pictured consorting with two fetching female yaks, thereby ruining the concept of 2 by inserting himself as a third animal. By 4, he is again hijacking poor zebra's concept, scaring away the 4 birds and replacing them with the less-attractive 4 stomachs ("just like cows"). More ridiculous scenarios bedevil the animals' futile attempt to complete the counting series. Six snails have been eaten by the four birds that the musk ox scared away; 10 dogs run away, leaving zebra and musk ox using their eight legs plus two heads to make up the number. This approach is deliberately challenging and will only work for children who are already completely comfortable with counting; those who are not will likely find this terminally confusing. Those kids ready to wrap their heads around musk ox's anarchic approach, though, will likely find their (singular) stomachs sore from laughing. (Picture book. 5-8)

Kirkus Reviews