Summary: Little ones love to play peek-a-boo! With its bright, quirky animals and oversized flaps to lift, Peek-a-Moo! is sure to be a read-aloud favorite. Readers play peek-a-boo with a different animal on each page, guessing what it is, then lifting the flap to find out. Each animal has a different sound that becomes part of the peek-a-boo game: Guess who? "Peek-a-moo!" says the cow. "Peek-a-squeak!" says the mouse. The bold, funny illustrations will keep kids laughing, while the large trim size and sturdy binding will ensure many hours of lift-the-flap fun.

Potential Audience (reading level): k-2; emergent

Genre: Fictional picture book (with interactive flaps)

Topic: Barnyard animals and the sounds they make, guessing game for children

Specific curricular uses: This would be a great read-aloud for kindergarten: have them guess the sounds the animals would make as you read through the book.

Social issues the book addresses: This book addresses life on a farm, interacting with animals and their individual characteristics.

Specific literary elements: The book uses questions to draw readers into the text and guess what sounds the animals make, and uses repetition on every page ("Guess who? Peek-a-")

Interactions and counter actions of text and images: The images in this story are crucial to the understanding of the text because the text does say what the animal is - the child can guess what the animal is and what sound it makes, but then it must fold down the arms of the animal to figure out the correct answer. I love how interactive the images in this book are!

A very simple but enjoyable concept and, judging by the layers of tape on the library copy, very much loved! Good for teaching animal names and sounds, playing peek-a-boo and colours. Love it!

Good for babies.

Peek-a-Moo! (Lift-the-Flap) by Marie Torres Cimarusti, illustrated by Stephanie Petersen is a classic lift the flap book focusing on farm related animals.

This book has repetition on every page, with the phrase, “guess who? Peek a ____.” Lifting the flap to find out, the reader discovers a phrase like "Peek-a-moo!" says the cow, or "Peek-a-quack!" says the duck. This book for emergent readers features a large font, good space between letters, few words on each page, repetitive phrases, and illustrations that closely match the text. Among the animals featured are a cow, mouse, duck and owl.

The bold, funny illustrations are entertaining for both children and adults reading it.

This is popular for baby, toddler and early preschool storytimes, as is Peek-a-Zoo. It's an interactive hit with young children.

For ages 1 to 5, farm animals, repetition, question-answer, read-aloud, phonological-awareness, print-motivation, and fans of Marie Torres Cimarusti and Stephanie Petersen.

Different animals hiding and peeking..
Let see who.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV7hU...

This book has aged very well! Littles will enjoy this lift-the-flap book with simple text, starring barnyard animals.

Themes: cows
Ages: babies - toddler - Kindergarten
Pub year: 1998

These "Peek-a-" books are great to share with young children, either in a story program setting or at home. Children love imitating animal sounds. Lots of "phonological awareness" opportunities here!

This is a regular sized picture book with almost full page sized flaps shaped like the animals. The flaps are of the animals covering their eyes playing peekaboo. When the animal is revealed it says, "Peek-a-Moo" or whatever sound that animal makes. Great fun for toddlers who are learning their animals sounds.

Really cute for the type of book it is. Nice and simple and vibrant.

great for practicing those animal sounds with toddlers, fun and interactive

modern classic, a must have for babies/toddlers

1. Basically this is a younger children's book which seems like was made to help kids understand different animals and the noises that they make. It starts out asking what are the different animals in the barnyard. Then there in the question Guess who? and a picture of a animal with a flap covering its' eyes and face. Once you flip down the flap it says the typical noise that the animal makes and also what the animal is. This is then a continuing theme throughout the book.

2. This book actually reminds me of the book Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?. I reminds me of it because they both seem to interact with the kids and engage them to inspect the pictures and to take guesses of what the animals are before they actually see all of them. I think that this book goes right along with what I read on page 11 in our textbook. On page 11 in talks about Beatrix Potters’ advice and her advice is: “I think the great point in writing for children is to have something to say and to say it in simple, direct language.”

3. Personally I thought it was cute. I think it is perfect and easy for those younger ages that are just engaged in the reading and are eager to learn all the noises and animals. I liked that it didn't have to be super long sentences and it wasn't super wordy. It was just very short and sweet!