What time is it Mr. Crocodile

Title: What time is Mr. Crocodile
Author: Judy Sierra
Illustrator: Doug Cushman
Ages: 2-3

Summary: Mr. Crocodile plans out his day, he will brush his teeth, visit the library, catch some pesky monkeys, cook some pesky monkeys and eat those pesky monkeys! Luckily for the monkeys, things don't go quite as planned.

How it went:
I did this with my two-s and they were enthralled. All three groups loved it. In two of the groups the majority of the kids stretched out on their tummies to watch the pictures.

The repetition of "What time is Mr. Crocodile" got their attention every time, and the rhyming made them smile.

I preceded this book with the fingerplay "Five little monkeys jumping on the bed," which made them giggle at the end when the monkeys bugging Mr. Crocodile were jumping on his bed.

*This might be a good book to learn how to tell time, as Mr. Crocodile plans his day pretty precisely, and the passage of time is evident throughout the story.