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Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing.

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Animals should definitely not wear clothing.

...because a snake would lose it, a billy goat would eat it for lunch, and it would always be wet on a walrus! This well-loved book by Judi and Ron Barrett shows the very youngest why animals' clothing is perfect...just as it is.

32 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1970

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Format
32 pages, Paperback
Published
December 30, 1988 by Atheneum Books for Young Readers
ISBN
9780689708077
ASIN
0689708076
Language
English

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Judi Barrett is the author of many well-loved books for children, including Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Pickles to Pittsburgh, Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing, and Things That Are Most in the World. She teaches art to kindergarten students at a school in her Brooklyn, New York, neighborhood. And she usually doesn't mind going to the dentist!

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ashketch95
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April 26,2025
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Obvi read this as a child and / or my mom read it to me as a child because I am a Jew born in the early eighties and grew up in Ann Arbor, but also I read this to people who came to my zoom havdalah last night because we were talking about what the talmud said about animals wearing clothing. Still love all the illustrations. I love this style because it takes me completely out of time and puts me back to that blessed childhood era.

Also, I love my mom.
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jacktheshack
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April 26,2025
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« Il ne faut pas habiller les animaux » est un album très drôle proposant des situations cocasses expliquant pourquoi cela ne serait vraiment pas une bonne idée de faire porter des vêtements aux animaux. En passant par la girafe, le morse, le porc-épic et bien d’autres animaux, ce petit livre tout simple saura certainement amuser les enfants mais aussi les plus grands!

Je me souviens que cet album était l’un de mes préférés étant petite et que chaque que je le voyais à la bibliothèque je ne pouvais m’empêcher de l’emprunter même si je l’avais lu des dizaines de fois. Je l’ai redécouvert il y a peu et j’ai toujours plaisir à me plonger dedans. Les illustrations sont très bien réalisées, sympathiques et vraiment drôle même si la palette de couleur utilisée est assez simple. L’autre avantage est la taille du texte qui est en gros caractère ce qui peut être une bonne idée pour les très jeunes lecteurs qui commencent tout juste à lire ou pour les enfants n’aimant pas les textes trop longs et trop compliqués. En plus de cela il a l’avantage d’être indémodable. Bien qu’écrit il y a quarante ans, les choses n’ont pas changées et cela serait toujours une aussi mauvaise idée d’habiller les animaux… et surtout un vrai casse-tête!
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littlemitsuki
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April 26,2025
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I really enjoyed this book and thought that the pictures were funny, especially the one where the elephant and lady were wearing the same outfit. As a kid, I thought that it was funny why people had to wear clothes and why animals didn’t have to wear clothes, but now it all makes sense. Overall, I think that this book will be loved by children and they will find it entertaining.
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listingexisting
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April 26,2025
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Animals should definitely not wear clothing because... If you've ever wanted to see an illustration of a sheep wearing a sweater, a hen wearing pants, or a giraffe wearing neckties, this is the book that's done it! It's a fun, silly book that kids will enjoy. As an extra literacy component, you can have readers further explain what is happening in the illustrations that is wrong or silly.
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KayB
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April 26,2025
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Judi Barrett's story is a plot-less story that describes why different animals should not wear clothing. The illustrations, done by Ron Barrett, have an enhancing relationship with the text. The humor of the story is amplified through the illustrations. The illustrations show the animal that corresponds to the accompanying text, on a full-white background. Some animals are done in color, while others are not; however all the clothes are colorful. The illustrator uses crosshatching to show texture and shadowing. The text is very bold and large and consumes one entire page, for every two-page spread. Green, red, orange and white are the most dominating colors of the images and backgrounds. Although the story doesn't really tell a story it is still very entertaining. Without the illustrations, some of the text would be very dry and boring and meaningless. Overall, a very appropriate story for young readers and easy to use as a read-along because of the large text.
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wajaj00
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April 26,2025
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This is a fun & silly book for Storytime that provides a lot of opportunities for enrichment and dialogic reading. My kids didn't even know what a porcupine was, so the immediately learned something new!
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Frankies_Monster
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April 26,2025
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This is a fantastic book that I somehow missed as a kid that now I can't wait to share with the kids in my life. Hilarious!
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Itami98
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April 26,2025
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The illustrations alone will be a hit in any classroom. This books features funny reasons why animals should not wear clothing. The large bold text and colored pages are great for read aloud. The reasons are practical but paired with the pictures assure that this book will spark a laugh or two. This would be a great introduction book for students to think about other animals that couldn't wear clothes.
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