To Market, to Market

by Anne Miranda

Book Overview

A funny twist on the classic rhyme What happens after a shopper goes "to market, to market, to buy a fat pig"? Back home the pig promptly escapes, and soon the pig's in the kitchen, the lamb's on the bed, the cow's on the couch--and the rest of the animals are wreaking havoc throughout the house! "The skillfully wielded visual anarchy explodes off the page. This is one market trip children will wish to take again and again." -- Publishers Weekly

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0152000356
• ISBN13: 9780152000356
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 36 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 11.1" x 10.1"
• Age Range: 4 to 7 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 2

Customer Reviews

Jiggety Jig

This is a wonderfully illustrated book. Your students/children will literally jiggety-jig because of the intensely humorous pictures. This is also a great book to use in conjunction with word family and rhyming lessons.

Funny Offbeat Story

This story adapts a traditional children's song by pulling it into our contemporary world. Most of us don't go to the market anymore to buy a whole pig or cow, and the illustrator highlights this gap in time by showing what happens when one woman does bring all these animals home. The result is both thoughtful and silly: I love a children's book that doesn't take itself too seriously! As you can imagine, the animals run loose and create havoc in the kitchen while the overwhelmed woman goes back to the market for more things. Finally in desperation, she buys a bunch of vegetables and makes them all soup! It's an artsy little story that you can read over and over again without getting bored. The illustrations are witty and creative throughout. I appreciate inventive touches in this book, like the black and white background juxtaposed against the color foreground. Also, I like the way the market background is reminiscient of an earlier time period, perhaps the 50's or 60's?

wonderful illustrations, wonderful story

What a delight. Perfect for ages 2 through 1st grade. A familiar poem with an interesting twist. Adults will thoroughly enjoy it, but let the kids read the story too.

Great vegetarian fun!

My two-year-old son loved this book! The realistic illustrations, combined with the black-and-white photography, worked well to convey the sense of chaos that grows throughout the book. The story's rhythm was good -- my son was finishing sentences for me within a few readings. The ending was amusing -- I don't think it was intended to be politically correct, but it turned out that way anyway, without preachiness. Good show!

My kids can't stop laughing with this book.

Wonderful, witty illustrations mske this book a laugh riot at our house, where it's been a treat read for months. A rare treat, to hear children (not to mention the adults) laughing uncontrollably at the lamb in the dishwasher rack or the cow staring at you from a corner of the page.