PUB DATE: Jan 1990
This is the book that was done at storytime this summer and the craft that Michael made to accompany the book. The little black dots are suppose to be flies.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
PreSchool-Grade 2– An amusing, but slight, yarn about a smelly moose who overpowers a hungry wolf with his repulsive odor. Mucky Moose, so called because he is indeed filthy, attracts the attention of a mean wolf, who brags to his fellow wolves that he will eat Mucky. However, when he confronts the moose, Mucky’s stench is so repulsive that the wolf is stricken mid-leap. Two additional attempts are made by the wolf, and he ultimately gives up and leaves the forest forever. Allen, whose strength lies in his visual rather than his textual humor, specializes in quirky characters whose entertaining expressions extend and expand the humor of the story–the wolf’s nasty plotting and Mucky’s serene assurance in his invulnerability are both delightfully captured by Allen’s droll cartoon style. Unfortunately, the tale ends abruptly and on a vaguely discordant note–the wolf leaves the forest to become a “guide wolf for the blind,” thereby trivializing a rather important relationship between some humans and their guide animals.
Michael’s Thoughts:
I really enjoyed the book. It was really funny. The reason he was called Mucky Moose was because he like to lay in the muddy swamps and be dirty and smelly.
The only animals that really liked Mucky was the birds and the frogs because flies were always around Mucky so they got food. The skunks liked Mucky as well because he smelled worse then them.
Its known that wolves can sometimes eat a moose. So when the biggest wolf heard about Mucky he decided that he wanted to eat Mucky because he was the biggest moose in the forest.
When the wolf announced that he was going to eat Mucky. Mucky simply replied ” but I’m afraid that doesn’t fit in with my plans.” This made the wolf mad. Then with a sudden wind change he got wiff of the moose and turned green, yellow, then green, curled his toes and fainted.
The wolf was furious a few days later he used a clothes peg on his nose and apporached the moose saying he was going to eat him but the moose couldn’t understand him so the wolf took the peg off. Well that poor wolf got wind of the moose and turned green, yellow and did a bunch of weird things and fainted again.
It took him a week to recover. This time he thought he was smart and got a gas mask. The moose told him it would be impossible to eat him with the mask on so he took it off and yea he got wind of the moose again. The poor wolf turned green, yellow and purple and did weird things with his body and fainted.
Well needless to say this was the third time and he decided to give up and left the forest to change his way. He decided to go the city and become a guide dog for the blind. Mucky Moose lived happily ever after.