Mendon and I have been playing a game ever since I got back from India. While there, someone had posited the thought, "I wonder what cows think."
I ran with it and later concluded (after much experimenting and analyzing) that regardless of what they may be seeing or doing, the extent of their thought process is "cow." Cow, cow, COW, cowcow cow. I like this. Yes, I realize that the Tamil cows were speaking in English. They're spehshul.
I told Mendon when were walking one and a half miles just to pick up our Chinese dinner about the cows. Since then, we've been having highly intellectual conversations about what exactly other animals think. We've decided that a goose actually thinks "geese;" they do that group thing. Chickens think "hen," which actually derives from their suffix -en. Roosters think about hen constantly. Yes, they do.
We're in a class, EDT180, Writing for Children. Animals and their stories come up often as we brainstorm for our class. Tonight, he was talking about Moose juice and Goose juice and a goose with moose juice and a moose with goose juice and nasty nightmares. So, I started thinking of rhymes. Chicken rhymes with pickin'. I suggested that an entire book could be written by misplacing an animal name with a rhyming word. "Stop chicken your nose!" We play a few more and then he suggests, "Man, we've been eating this same, stale corn for days! This ducks!"
The list goes on:
"yeah, we got ourselves a new soccer roach"
"Soon, we'll have to snake the leaves"
"I fish I may, I fish I might..."
"I think that dog is rabbit... he's kinda foamy"
"Yeah, he usually just sits there like a bump on a dog"
"Sold! You got yourself an eel!"
"Man, those clouds look cold and threatening; do you think it's gonna whale?"
and
"It's gettin' hot in hare."
Credit goes to NelMendon for that last one.
You are, by the way, invited to post any of your own, in case you're inclined.
This explains why you were asking about our favorite children's books. I was wondering.
And college students don't think they have any free time!
MUAHAHAHAHAHA!
Mara, what's with the eery Giraffe? A childrens book you might enjoy is scranimal island. I don't remember the author, but he is a poet and the book rhymes. One animal I recall was the broccolion. The animals are a combination of two living things, sometimes two animals and somtimes plants are involved.
Earth is a part of the Polar bear system.
Everything is donkey dory!
Our mouse it the one with the white cricket fence and the turtle growing everywhere.
I have two bugs in my classroom but I have to give one up- apparently it belongs to first grade.
One of the seven deadly sins is moth (this one actually works with the original as well!)
According to Ice-T, we're all chimps and ho's.
he is my arch anemone.
It's freezing in hear cause the cheetah is broken.
That squirrel is finally becoming a young woman.
we whaled carefully in the goat to avoid the foal.
Do you want bunny in your tea? How bout some lice?
ugh, my coworker is such an elephant.
I'm taking a horse called literacy collaberative.
my mother knit me a pink pig to wear.
It's not bear, I wanted bat!
Cow you Doin'?
I think I misbird you.
I'm allergic to honeydew and antelope.
put some bison that swollen ankle
Don't just sit there like a bump on a frog.
cicada bee sad sometimes
Tucan play at this game
I think I'm finally too sheepy to coninue.
Wow!
wow
Rae, are these all yours? Or that poet you mentioned? These are great.
:)
I made them up in a manic moment
how about a magic moment?
well, you could say that- but manic is more accurate.