Skippyjon Jones in Mummy Trouble is about a siamese cat whose alter ego, El Skippito Friskito, is a Chihuahua. El Skippito Friskito goes to visit the 'Under Mundo' with his friends to find 'mummitos' that rest in 'peas'. I enjoyed reading this book because it had a lot of rhyming. Most of the rhymes were words like 'friskito', 'Egypt-ito', 'mummito' and 'chance-erito'. These were fun to read because they aren't real words but the reader is still able to figure out their definition. The illustrations in this book are very colorful and they catch the reader's eye. It also caught my eye that some words were bigger than others. For example, when Skippyjon is jumping on his bed the word 'bounced' is written large and curved in different ways across the page. This gives the illusion that the words actually is bouncing a little bit. The little chants that the characters sing are engaging because they break the book up a little bit. I think they would help children who get bored while listening to books being read because they would catch the child's attention. I thought it was also useful that there were a few Spanish words mixed into the book. In the future I think it will be important for many people to be able to speak Spanish; this book could help young learners with key phrases and words.
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