Underwear! which has been in print for more than twenty years. She teaches gifted students in Illinois. Monster Goes to School and Underwear! She divides her time between Massachusetts and Vermont.
"An idea with a built-in kid-appeal: tell a story about underwear
and bring in an artist to add lots of funny touches to each pair of
boxer shorts...more fun is the part when grassland animals Orfo the
Orangutan and Zachary the Zebra attend the 'World's Greatest
Grassland Underwear Fair' and stock up on their favorite styles.
And best of all are Munsinger's pictures of them wearing all those
bright and witty styles at once."--Publishers Weekly
"Her animals are full of frolic-some fun, and the variety of
underwear is appropriately zany. Children will be unable to resist
Zachary and Orfo as they cavort in the trees with underwear donned
as hats and numerous pairs trailing from their limbs. Sheer
frivolous fun."--School Library Journal
"Just a'struttin' and a'prancin' and bedecked to beat the band in
heart-spattered drawers comes Bismark the Buffalo--but only after a
remarkable metamorphosis...Munsinger's zany pen-and-ink
perky-colored illustrations are a perfect foil for the text...A
great read-aloud choice."--Booklist
K-Gr 2 Nothing is as sure to elicit giggles in the primary grades as the mention of underwear, and this book relies heavily on that premise. The sto ry is slight. Zachary Zebra and his best friend, Orfo the Orangutan, love un derwear, and each year the two friends visit the World's Greatest Grassland Underwear Fair. Their fun is damp ened only by grumpy Bismark the Buf falo, who is such a grouch that even the parasitic bugs on his body desert him. He is not amused by underwear until he is challenged to repeat the word ten times without laughing. Of course, after a few repetitions, he be gins to chortle and children, like Bis mark, will be overcome with laughter by the final shout of ``underwear.'' What could have been an unbelievable moralistic tale (could one's whole disposition really change with a few repetitions of a silly word?) is saved by Munsinger's delightful illustrations. Her animals are full of frolicsome fun, and the variety of underwear is appropriately zany. Children will be unable to resist Zachary and Orfo as they cavort in the trees with underwear donned as hats and numerous pairs trailing from their limbs. Sheer frivolous fun. Lori A. Janick, Parkwood Elementary School, Pasadena, Tex.
"An idea with a built-in kid-appeal: tell a story about underwear and bring in an artist to add lots of funny touches to each pair of boxer shorts...more fun is the part when grassland animals Orfo the Orangutan and Zachary the Zebra attend the 'World's Greatest Grassland Underwear Fair' and stock up on their favorite styles. And best of all are Munsinger's pictures of them wearing all those bright and witty styles at once."--Publishers Weekly
"Her animals are full of frolic-some fun, and the variety of underwear is appropriately zany. Children will be unable to resist Zachary and Orfo as they cavort in the trees with underwear donned as hats and numerous pairs trailing from their limbs. Sheer frivolous fun."--School Library Journal
"Just a'struttin' and a'prancin' and bedecked to beat the band in heart-spattered drawers comes Bismark the Buffalo--but only after a remarkable metamorphosis...Munsinger's zany pen-and-ink perky-colored illustrations are a perfect foil for the text...A great read-aloud choice."--Booklist
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