Penny and Her Song audiobook

Read for my toddler's bedtime. Mouse wants to sing her song but her parents afraid babies will wake up but actually her song puts them to sleep.

After my first reading I gave this book 3 stars. I have now read this book to my daughter close to 100 times and I now appreciate its brilliance. Never underestimate the power of Kevin Henkes.

In this book Penny Sings her Song. Read the book and you will know Penny's song. THANK YOU FOR SEEING THIS REVIEW.

I don't love, love, love every book Kevin Henkes writes. Some of his books aren't quite up to what I expect from him. But Penny and Her Song, for me, is one of his best! (Perhaps just needing some time before becoming as beloved as his classic picture books, Chrysanthemum and Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse and Owen.) It beginsPenny came home from school with a song."Listen, Mama," said Penny. "It's my very own song."Penny started to sing,"One is nice--""Your song is beautiful, said Mama, "but you will wake up the babies."From the very start, I just LOVED, LOVED, LOVED Penny. I did. I loved her energy, her perseverance. She has a SONG TO SING...and she wants to SING until she's heard. She will find an audience, she will, she will. She just has to! I also loved the family dynamics of this one. While the Mom and Dad aren't exactly thrilled with the exuberant singing--the timing of it--they are very good, very sweet in their own way, in their own time. There's a time to sing, and a time to be quiet...after all.This one is told in two very short chapters. I'd definitely recommend this one!!!

I give this book 100 stars. I liked Penny and Her Song. I liked it when she sung her song. I didn't like it when her parents told her not to wake the babies. I would tell my friends to read Penny and Her Song.

Richie’s Picks: PENNY AND HER SONG by Kevin Henkes, Greenwillow, February 2012, 32p., ISBN: 978-0-06-208195-7“I heard he sang a good song, I heard he had a styleAnd so I came to see him and listen for a while”-- Fox/Gimbel, “Killing Me Softly”“Living in today’s complex world of the future is a little like having bees live in your head. But there they are.”-- The Firesign Theater, “We're All Bozos on this Bus”How often do you find yourself with a song in your head? How often do you let one of these songs escape through your vocal cords and your mouth? I don't know about you, but after all these decades of being exposed to a never-ending flood of music, in a manner never before experienced by humankind prior to our boomer generation, there always seems to be a song at the tip of my tongue, a virtual mental jukebox that is running pretty much all of my waking hours. It makes me so happy to have all of this music buzzing around my head. Being a words person, I've always had a love for internalizing the lyrics that catch my ear. As I was telling a friend the other day, some in my community must think me somewhat deranged. I try to walk at least a few miles every day, and as I'm walking, I'm almost always singing. In fact, I've become accustomed to working on learning the words to songs while on my daily treks. I'll use the iPhone to google the lyrics to something for which I have the tune in my head, and then work on memorizing them as I'm heading around and beyond town. Or else, I’ll just be bopping along, not really thinking about it, but streaming a bunch of old favorites, one after another, after another, from brain recesses to oral cavity. “The sounds just drift across my roomI wish this feeling I could share”-- Justin Hayward, “The Actor”The good feeling that music makes inside of me is something I began experiencing at a very young age, a combination of growing up with fifties and sixties radio from NYC, and participating in sing-alongs in nursery school and kindergarten. It was such a great experience that I made sure my kids could sing a hundred or more songs, including dozens of Beatles songs, long before they could read the lyrics.This is all to say that I am a big fan of Kevin Henkes’s latest mouse book, in which a girl mouse named Penny arrives home from school with a song in her head.“’Listen, Mama,’ said Penny. ‘It’s my very own song.’”Unfortunately for the budding lyricist, Penny’s baby siblings are asleep at that moment and so Penny has to postpone performing her song until after baby naptime and after dinner. But then, Penny is given the opportunity to perform her song, to teach it to her parents and siblings and, then, to play dress up with her parents in preparation for a group performance in costume. “Let there be songs to fill the air”-- Hunter/Garcia, “Ripple”PENNY AND HER SONG is, on its face, a simple little story. But if music is a major part of what makes you a happy person, what makes you feel alive – which is what it does for me every day – then you'll appreciate and want to share this tale about the joy of singing, of filling the air with songs.Richie Partington, MLISRichie's Picks http://[email protected] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/middle_... http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/people/facult...

This review also appears on my blog, Read-at-Home Mom.Though I think a lot of people and bookstores have called this book a picture book, it’s really an easy reader divided into short chapters. Penny is a mouse like Lilly, and Chrysanthemum, and Owen, but she doesn’t have a big life-changing problem. Rather, she comes home from school wanting to share her special song, and discovers she must wait because the babies are asleep. It’s difficult to wait, but well worth it, because when she does finally share her song, everyone in the family loves it - including those little babies.The story reminded me immediately of Noisy Nora, but without the condescending older sister, and with a much less dramatic resolution. Penny is never brushed aside and ignored like Nora; rather, she waits patiently, and is ultimately rewarded with lots of positive attention from her parents for her creativity. The book is less a sibling rivalry story, and more of a celebration of joy, togetherness, and sharing simple moments with one’s family.

Joining the beloved Chrysanthemum, Lilly, Owen and Wemberly is a new mouse character from the incredible Kevin Henkes. This mouse is named Penny and she has a song to sing. Unfortunately when she gets home, the babies are sleeping and she’s not allowed to share her song with her mother or father. Later, she tries to share the song during dinner, but her parents ask her to wait until they are done eating to sing. Finally, after dinner, Penny shares her song. Her parents sing it too, they dress up in costumes, and the babies have a surprise reaction too!Read the rest of my review on my blog, Waking Brain Cells.

Good easy reader sort of picture book for around 1st to 2nd grade. Penny has come up with her own song and wants to sing it, but, the babies are sleeping and then it's dinner time and she has to wait. Just one of those believable childhood experience type books where the child in question happens to be an animal.

Perfect for my 8 year old working through dyslexia challenges.

Early chapter book. Definitely reading more of Penny.