The Flea's Sneeze

The Flea's Sneeze is written by Lynn Downey and illustrated by Karla Firehammer.
Picture book
1st - 2nd Grade
2 out of 5
The Flea's Sneeze is about a flea who has a cold and when he sneezes very loudly he scares all the other animals living in the barn.
I did not like The Flea's Sneeze. I think that the plot of the book really had nothing exciting happen. The entire story built up to a sneeze that woke up the other animals but that was it. I think that it is very repetitive; almost every page had the same rhyme about the other animals in the barn. Some of the animals, including the flea, had lines of dialogue; I felt that the dialogue was very hard to read because the author tried to make them talk like they were sick. Although, I did not like the story, I did think that illustrations were cute because they were made to look nonrealistic. The illustrations are acrylics on Strathmore board. I also liked the illustrations because some pages were full drawings and every other page was just a little picture with text.
I really do not think that there is a good lesson that you could use to go along with this book in a classroom. I think that the only real lesson you could use to go with The Flea's Sneeze is to teach rhyming words or poetry because most of the book uses rhyming words.