Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?

Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?

Hardcover cover
Author	Dr. Seuss
Illustrator	Dr. Seuss
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Children's literature
Publisher	Random House
Publication date	August 12, 1970
Media type	Print (Hardcover)
Pages	24
ISBN	978-0679882824
Preceded by	I Can Draw It Myself
Followed by	The Lorax

Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?: Dr. Seuss's Book of Wonderful Noises! is a children's book written and illustrated by Theodor Geisel under the pen name Dr. Seuss and published by Random House in 1970.^[1][2]

Plot

The story follows a man named Mr. Brown, who can make a wide variety of sounds, imitating the sounds of animals and inanimate objects. The narrator recites a list of items and animals that Mr. Brown can sound like, each one accompanied by illustrations of the object and an onomatopoeia, which replicates the sound he can make. So Mr. Brown can make the "moo" of a cow, the "buzz" of a bee, the "pop" of a cork, the "klopp klopp" of a horse's hooves, the "cock a doodle doo" of a rooster, the "hoo hoo" of an owl, the "dibble dibble dibble dop" of rain, the "tick tock" of a clock, the "knock knock" of a hand against a door, the "boom" of thunder and the "splatt" of lightning. The narrator the list by suggesting that the reader try to make these same sounds, and the last pages of text feature a list of all the onomatopoeias featured in the book.

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