This was always my favorite book when I was a kid. It is the perfect book to read to children to engage and laugh with them. It is fun filled and perfect for children from ages 4-8.

A childhood favorite, that nobody could read better than my older sister, Heidi, who had the perfect excitable speech impediment. A must for every child.

Just reread this, as a friend bought it for me for my personal collection. It’s even more wonderful than I had remembered!

This is marvelous, wonderful, fantastic book. My friend Kelly loved this as a child and brought it out to use in our writing lessons. This is an excellent example of a cumulative tale and humor, among other things. I want a copy of my own to use with other classes. It's fantastic.

This is the first book that I can ever remember reading. My grandma would read to me in the day when she babysat me and she had a bag of books that we would read from. There are quite a few but this one stands out as my favorite in my memory. When I got older, my grandma gave me the bag of books and now my own children have read them as well. I hope they inspire the love of reading as they did to me! 5 stars!

This has been a favorite for some time. I very much like Wallace Tripp's illustration style -- it has a sketch-like liveliness that almost distracts you from how precisely perfect everything is. And the animals are at a fun middle ground between realism and anthropomorphism. Patricia Thomas's story is amusing, with lots of rhymes and a varying rhythm that works rather than just being random.

My Mom read this book to me when I was a kid, and I love reading it to my children now. It's such a funny, engaging story, and . . . if you take the time to create voices for the characters, it is all the more fun. ;)

This book was very cute. It rhymes and the illustrations are hilarious. Recommend for ages 4 to 8.

Must read with my elephant puppet! At the end of each page, he "ach-ach...! Not yet." while the class laughed and backed up, calling out, "Don't sneeze on me!"

This book has been a long time favorite at our house. I'm reviewing it today because I want anyone reading this review who has young kids to get a copy! I read it to my Kindergartener's class today and even though it's a long-ish book, they were completely engrossed in it and laughed and laughed at the end. It is such a wonderful book all about what happens in the jungle when an elephant sneezes. The rhyming is fantastic and it's even fun to use different animal voices as you read it...i.e. bees, crocodiles, etc. It's as much fun to read as it is to hear, and I like to stop at the end of a rhyme and see if the kids can fill in what the word should be. The Kindergarteners did so well today. As the zebra, I said, "Yikes! You'll blow off my _______" and they all yelled "STRIPES" in my same voice. SO MUCH FUN! Just a great book. I just realized that this book is by the same author who wrote "There are Rocks in my Socks," Said the Ox to the Fox, a book I adored as a child! No wonder I love this one! I'll have to check out some of her other children's books.

SUPER cute book!! The expressions of the animals in the illustrations are hilarious! The kids love this one and so do I. The story is in rhyme, which makes it fun to read. And the ending is not what you are expecting. :0)

Genre: Modern Fantasy
Grade: 1st-2nd
its an elephant that is about to sneeze, but instead of helping the elephent not sneeze, all the animals just yell at him and tell him not to sneeze, because he will destroy everything with a powerful sneeze. Then finaly someone actualy does help their friend out instead of yelling at him. good story.

This wonderful piece of rhyming verse is reminiscent of Dr. Suess in its short phrasing and rhyming text. Wonderful fun to read aloud as the animals' reactions to coming sneeze are quite comical. Good book.