Crankee Doodle

I like grumpy men. Really like them. Crankee Doodle was a grumpy man. You can hardly blame him. Imagine an overeager pony urging you to ride into town and stick a feather in your hat and call it "macaroni." And to have an annoying chorus playing in the background over and over and over... Well, I'd......more

This one is pretty dang funny. Yankee Doodle is cranky and his horse is just trying to be helpful. He makes suggestions. They could go to town. He could call his hat macaroni. Yankee Doodle thinks that is absolutely ridiculous because why would he call a hat a kind of pasta?! The unfailingly patient......more

Author Tom Angleberger and illustrator Cece Bell offer a revisionist take on the classic song Yankee Doodle in this humorous picture-book, as Mr. Doddle argues with his pony about whether to ride into town, whether to go shopping, and whether to buy a feather for his hat, and call it macaroni. Mr. D......more

First off, let me confess, I loved this book a lot. I looked at the cover, giggled, and loved it. I read through the book, laughed and double loved it. I then closed the cover and said, "I don't want to review this book and put it on my blog." Why in the world would you do that you may ask if you lo......more

I am a fan of Angleberger's Origami Yoda series and I was excited when I saw this book. Then I read it. Then I read it again, just in case I was being too hasty. I really wish I could have liked this book better, but it did not work at all for me. The illustrations are simple line drawings combined w......more