{"id":21779,"date":"2013-11-02T16:43:16","date_gmt":"2013-11-02T20:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=21779"},"modified":"2013-11-02T16:43:16","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T20:43:16","slug":"review-of-crankee-doodle-by-tom-angleberger-and-cece-bell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=21779","title":{"rendered":"Review of Crankee Doodle, by Tom Angleberger and Cece Bell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/crankee_doodle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/crankee_doodle.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"crankee_doodle\" width=\"130\" height=\"160\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-22485\" \/><\/a><em>Crankee Doodle<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Tom Angleberger<br \/>\npictures by Cece Bell<\/p>\n<p>Clarion Books, New York, 2013.  32 pages.<\/p>\n<p>This one is just silly.<\/p>\n<p>There are so many parts of the song \u201cYankee Doodle\u201d that don\u2019t make any sense.  Turns out, they didn\u2019t make sense to Yankee Doodle himself.  <\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a section where he\u2019s talking to his pony, who wants to go to town, and suggests he buy a feather for his hat:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>First of all, why would I want to call my hat macaroni?  I don\u2019t want to call my hat anything!  It\u2019s just a hat!  Second of all, why would putting a feather in my hat turn it into macaroni?  It would still be a hat, not macaroni!  Look at this hat!  Does it look almost like macaroni to you?  I don\u2019t care how many feathers you put in it, it\u2019s still just a hat.  And besides, I don\u2019t even like macaroni!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This picture book isn\u2019t really for the preschool set, but for young school-age kids who may have wondered a few things about that silly song.  But here\u2019s hoping it doesn\u2019t make them as cranky as this guy gets!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0547818548\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\">Sonderbooks<\/a> at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Picture_Books\/crankee_doodle.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Picture_Books\/crankee_doodle.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Disclosure: I am an Amazon Affiliate, and will earn a small percentage if you order a book on Amazon after clicking through from my site.<\/p>\n<p>Source: This review is based on a library book from Fairfax County Public Library.<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer:  I am a professional librarian, but I maintain my website and blogs on my own time.  The views expressed are solely my own, and in no way represent the official views of my employer or of any committee or group of which I am part.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"none\" data-via=\"Sonderbooks\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crankee Doodle by Tom Angleberger pictures by Cece Bell Clarion Books, New York, 2013. 32 pages. This one is just silly. There are so many parts of the song \u201cYankee Doodle\u201d that don\u2019t make any sense. Turns out, they didn\u2019t make sense to Yankee Doodle himself. Here\u2019s a section where he\u2019s talking to his pony, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delightfully-silly","category-picture-book-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}