I Love to Sneeze

by Ellen Schecter

I Love To Sneeze



A good sneeze can be a relief-but it can also cause quite a ruckus!  Zebras lose their stripes, cows go flying over the moon, and leaves get blown back onto the trees!  Read-aloud audiences and beginning readers alike will laugh out loud as total chaos ensues in this wacky romp!

32 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1992

About the author

ELLEN SCHECTER has been published widely in print and on the web. Many of her books are for children, and her first novel, The Big Idea [Hyperion] won the Américas Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature. She’s written and collaborated on multiple-award-winning TV for PBS, Disney, CBS, and the Discovery Channel. Not bad for someone who never grew up.

Excepts from her new memoir, Fierce Joy, have been published online on ducts.org, Lilith magazine, and the University of Virginia Medical Arts Journal.

Check out the great reviews of her latest book, FIERCE JOY, at faboverfify: best memoirs of the year so far [faboverfifty.com/bookblog/2012/04]; New York Review of Books: Laura Schultz, in the New York Journal of Books:
“Ellen Schecter creates a visual symphony with her extraordinary command of the unique language of the soul.”
In “Diagnosis Is Not Death,” a review in Tablet by Sarah Ivry: “Illness does not always rob us of our spirit …and Schecter…finds in Judaism a sense of nurturing that… she didn’t realize she craved….I not only want to make peace with my illness, I want to sanctify it."

Reviews

[Vicki · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is bit dated now, with sneezing into your hand is not what is taught now-sneezing into your elbow. Still fun rhyming, humorous text.

[Itzel Gonzalez · Rating 5 out of 5]

My baby loves this book because she laughs every time I go "achoo!" in the book!

[Kristi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Okay, I may turn this into a children's books critique center. We love this book! It's such a basic idea turned into something fun. My son asks to read it all the time now. We like getting really dramatic with it.

[Aleta · Rating 3 out of 5]

Weird premise, (who loves to sneeze?) leads to silliness (her sneezes produce hurricane-force winds) and Seuss-like rhymes. I can imagine lots of laughter from a young child reading this.