Don't Feed the Coos
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- £4.99
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- £4.99
Publisher Description
A hilarious, ridiculous, darkly comic story about what can happen when you feed one single pigeon . . .
The dynamic team behind Llama Destroys the World return with a laugh-out-loud tale about the dangers of . . . feeding pigeons!
When you see a coo, you will be tempted to give it a treat.
Coos are adorable, peaceful, kind of silly.
But DON'T FEED THE COO!
If you feed one, they will ALL COME . . .
So begins a cautionary tale of what happens when one little girl shares some bread with a coo (a.k.a. a pigeon). From the park to karate practice to home, the coos follow our plucky heroine as she discovers that even the biggest problem can be solved with a little determination.
Also available: Llama Destroys the World
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Married collaborators Stutzman and Fox (Llama Destroys the World) present the darkly comic and maybe even existential hazards presented by a whole flock of pigeons ("coos") in this send-up of cause-and-effect titles such as If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. "If you feed one" a child stands with a bag of bread, beguiled by a small gray coo "they will ALL come." Quickly surrounded, the child is tailed by coos ("through the park,/ down the street.../ Even at karate lessons") who never stop eating and poo with impunity ("coo poos covering everything"). "No matter what scheme you cook up," the narrator cautions as a variety of "Go Away" signs are installed, "your plans. Will. FAIL." Should the child capitulate ("Just accept your fate..../ Give them names./ Knit them scarves"), or could it be that someone who truly loves the coos is missing them terribly? Fox's graphic illustrations echo the text's giddy rhythms, with the pigeons styled, Willems-like, as pert, wide-eyed, always-in-profile graphic motifs that skip, flit, and, yes, poo prodigiously across the pages. Ages 4 8.
