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Boo and Baa Have Company

Author: -Lena and Olof Landstrom
Title: -Boo and Baa Have Company
Illustrator: -Lena and Olof Landstrom
Publisher: -Norstedts Publishing Group
Year: -2006


Format: -Hardcover
Genre: -Easy to read
Reading Level: -Emergent Reader
Interest Level: -Early Elementary


Topics: - Fall, outdoors, climbing, cats


Summary: - Boo and Baa rake up some leaves. Boo goes and gets the wheelbarrow and the tire squeaks. Baa goes to get an oil can and they think it is meowing now. They find out that there is a cat in the tree that is afraid to come down. They go and get a can of sardines. Then they try a plank for it to walk across. Then a ladder which the cat scurries across the plank. Boo is stuck up in the tree and Baa goes and makes sandwiches. Baa tries to get Boo down by lowering him with a rope but they end up both falling in the leaf pile. When they go inside to get the cat it is back in the tree. They go to bed and the cat ends up coming in and sleeping on their floor.



Extension Activities: -
Have the kids make up a story about how they would have helped the cat get down.

Make different kinds of sandwiches like Baa made for Boo and talk about where the ingredients comes from.