SIX SHEEP SIP THICK SHAKES 2011

Brian P. Cleary -- Millbrook Press/Lerner Publishing Group

Steve Mack illustrator

978-1-58013-585-6 PN6371.5.C54 398.8-dc22

REVIEW

Six Sheep Sip Thick Shakes has enough tongue twisters to challenge kids and adults. This is not a story in
the usual sense. The only connection between the pages is the ability to tie your tongue into knots. The
illustrations playfully express the words on the page, but will not help you read them aloud. These are
truly trying twisters for your tongue. Kids will enjoy the entertainingly silly sentences that will have
them “giggling, groaning and guffawing” as they (try to) read each aloud.

This unusual book is bound to break up a boring afternoon, add laughter to your day, and have you and
your child writing your own tongue twisters after reading Mr. Cleary’s instructions, at the end of the
book. If six sheep sipping thick shakes does not trip you up, just wait, there might be “two-ton trains
transporting twelve three-toed turtles twist trickily on the twin tracks” waiting to trip your tongue and
tie it into knots.