What's Your Sound, Hound the Hound?

by Mo Willems

Book Overview

Join spunky Cat the Cat as she introduces the very youngest readers to her world, where a surprise is waiting in every book.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061728446
• ISBN13: 9780061728440
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Balzer & Bray/Harperteen
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.9" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

This delightful Cat the Cat book is a perfect book to introduce young children to pre-reading skills

Cat the Cat, carrying a basket covered with a red polka dot cloth, rushed up to a hound dog who was removing a cookie sheet full of dog bones from his oven. Her eyes widened as she asked, "What's your sound, Hound the Hound?" The hound dog smiled, pursed his jowls, and said "Woof! Woof! Woof!" Next she went to ask as chick a similar question. The chick, who was dipping a tea bag in his teapot made just a tiny "Peep!" Cat the Cat did a cartwheel, balancing the basket on her toes, and asked the cow, "What's your sound, Cow the Cow?" The cow was reaching into the fridge for a half gallon of milk and bellowed "Mmmmmoooooooooooooo!" When she approached the bunny to ask the question, his eyes grew wide as he set some cups down on a bench. Well, everyone knows that bunnies don't make loud sounds. The crowd gathered round waiting to see what would happen when Cat the Cat asked the question. What was Bunny the Bunny going to say? This delightful Cat the Cat book is a perfect book to introduce your preschooler to pre-reading skills while enjoying a FUN tale. One of the pre-reading skills is the ability to recognize sounds and imitate them. For example, small children quickly learn to imitate the sound of a cow and are usually quite anxious to demonstrate their ability to do so. In this book the child will learn to associate the sound with letters, a pre-reading skill. This Cat the Cat story is simply one of those charming critters that not only provides a subtle learning experience, but is one your little one will ask you to read to them time and time again . . . provided they don't have the book in hand trying to read to you!

short and sweet

i have a four year old son i bought this book for and yes each page only has about 5 words, but the pictures tell the story. this is the first book that brought my son and i so many laughs looking at the rabbit(the last couple pages)! very cute book to read over and over again!

Cute Book

This is a very cute 'sound-focused' book from Mo. By which I mean that the focus is on animals and the sounds they make. It's the sort of book that you sit and go through with an older baby or toddler -- maybe a younger preschooler -- naming colors, animals, and making sounds, and other wise enjoying the story. Besides hound, of course, there are bird and cow... and finally bunny that Cat asks to make their sound. Bunny?!? you might be thinking. And that's where Mo puts his plot twist. What sounds do bunnies make? I won't tell you about what happens when the bunny is asked to make a sound, but it provides a cute ending. Since "What's Your Sound, Hound the Hound?" is written at the 1.0 Accelerated Reading level, and contains very few words, it could be used as a nice beginning reader for early readers. However, because of the topic, I wouldn't rush out to buy it for that purpose. THE SKINNY::: "What's Your Sound, Hound the Hound?" is a very nice book for children in the 1 to 3 year old range. The artwork is delightful, and the book ends with a cozy hug, but really I think we preferred "Cat the Cat" better. Pam T~ mom/blogger