What can you do with a shoe? You can put it on your ear or wear it on
your head or butter it like bread or use apple jam instead! What can you
do with a hat? You can fill it up with pickles or with popcorn or with
glue. An octopus could rest in it, a bird could build a nest in it, a
turtle be a guest in it. Or would a horse look best in it? These are
samples of the questions and wonderfully silly, laugh-provoking answers
in a game played by a little girl and boy dressed up i their parents
clothes.
On every page of this whimsically playful book, there are enchanting
watercolor illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Inspired by the infectiously
funny pictures and text, children will soon begin to make rhymes of
their own about everyday things. Richly imaginative and wholly in tune
with children's high spirits and sense of play, What can you do with a
show?, now issued in a new edition with full-color paintings, will be
welcomed by young and old. It is a treasure