Muncha! Muncha! Muncha!

After years of dreaming of planting a garden, Mr. McGreely finally takes hoe and watering can in hand and makes his dream come true. Then one day bunnies come along and Muncha, Muncha, Muncha all his vetegables in his garden. This is a very catchy book that children love reading.

This book is odd because I like this author and this illustrator but I really dislike this book. The illustrations are kinda cluttered and confusing and the story is too long and has no real pop. A man plants a vegetable garden but rabbits keep eating it all, he escalates his security, they keep

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eating.

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This book is packed with repetitive and onomatopoeic phrases which keep young readers engrossed in the mystery. About the book: After years of dreaming of planting a garden, Mr. McGreely finally takes hoe and watering can in hand and makes his dream come true. Unfortunately for him (but luckily for

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readers), this is not the happily-ever-after part of the story. Late one night, three hungry bunnies appear: "Tippy-tippy-tippy, Pat! Muncha! Muncha! Muncha!" The next morning finds our farmer gnashing his teeth over the gnawed sprouts. So he builds a small wire fence. That night... "Muncha! Muncha! Muncha!" So Mr. McGreely builds a tall wooden wall. You get the idea. Young readers will hang on every word until they find out, once and for all, who will win the battle of the broccoli. Great read aloud for active involvement from students!

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I gave this book 2 stars because I really didn't enjoy the story and it was quite boring.

Summary:
Mr. McGreeley decides to plant him a garden since it was something he always wanted to do before. Once he gets his garden planted, some rabbits come in the night and eat his new plants. Furious at the rabbits, he builds a fence to keep the rabbits out, but they still come back and eat his

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plants. He builds several different fences to keep them out until finally he builds one that the rabbits can’t get into. His plants grow and he is able to pick them when they are ready. But while he is picking the plants, the rabbits sneak in behind him and he catches them eating them.

Personal Reaction:
I thought this story was cute. Any gardener has some type of problem with animals or something that they have to be weary of. I like how this book uses repetition of the “MuncHa!” while the rabbits are eating throughout the story and that’s even how the book ends also. I think kids would really like this story for that reason, too.

Extension Ideas:
1) Have the students draw and color their own little bunny rabbit eating something from Mr. McGreeley’s garden.
2) Have the students come up with their own ideas of how they would keep the bunny rabbits out with a description, and have them write it in their daily writing journal.

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This book is about three pesky little rabbits who go around eating in Mr. McGreely's garden. This has very good language play that is fun for children to hear and read out loud. This is a great book for younger children.

a gardener is working hard on his garden and does not want to share with the theiving bunnies. so he goes through different attempts to keep the rabbits out. but each time they find a way through.

A charming little tale about a man who always wanted a nice little garden to grow fresh yummy veggies. However, when he sets out to accomplish this goal he finds that he is not the only one who thinks the veggies are yummy. Some crafty rabbits come along, and "muncha, muncha, muncha" eat his

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veggies all up. The man comes up with a series of ways to keep the rabbits out, but they always find a way into his garden. Will he ever keep them out? Another great book by Candace Fleming, children will love the silly little man and the sneaky bunnies but they can also learn about sequences and onomonopeias, and many more quirky english lessons.

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This book was the cutest! The old man in the story just could not keep the rabbits from eating all of his vegetables in his garden. He fenced it, chained, and even shoveled a stream around it. But none of these things seem to keep those rabbits out of his garden. Finally, he does something that

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actually does keep the rabbits from eating his vegetables, but to his the rabbits find a new way to get to his veggies! Bring you child on this outrageous journey to a garden where rabbits are not (supposed to be) allowed!

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You probably like the sound effects of this book, and G. Brian Kara's simple and childlike drawings.

Rabbits come up with ways to get into Mr. McGreeley's garden to eat his yummy vegetables. Each time he comes up with a new way to ward them off, they come up with a new way to get in. This is a great way to show kids how they can play with language to show sounds.

Mr. McGreely finally plants the garden of his dreams but can not keep the rabbits out of it. He tries several different ways to try and keep the rabbits out but they keep finding a way in. This would be a great book to reading when learning about gardening, synonyms, and word repetition.

I would use this book for Kindergarten and 1st graders. It's a fun book to read to the class. It's about a man trying to plant a garden without the the rabbits eating all his vegetables. No matter what they always find a way!

This is a very cute book to read aloud to a buzzing class of youngsters. Its repetition can also be a guiding factor for older children learning about the devices of sound. This is a cute book about the determination of a farmer to keep the rabbits out of his garden, but in the end, he realizes

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that it is easier to share after all.

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A gardener puts up barrier after barrier to protect his plants from hungry rabbits.

The book would be good to discuss repitition and synonyms.

A pefect story to delight preschoolers or younger. It rythmes, has suspence, and trick ending.

Tenacious farmer AND tenacious bunnies here. I probably would've given this book 2.5 stars if available, but decided to round up.

This book is a must for any classroom. It tackles big themes like conflict resolution and overcoming obstacles in a very silly, very ridiculous way. Readers will be delighted as Mr. McGreely's solutions to his bunny problem become increasingly outrageous and bizarre. Teachers will love the

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excellent use of onomatopoeia throughout the story. Overall, it's a fabulous read.

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This is a story of one Mr. McGreely, who simply wants to plant his garden in peace. Unfortunately, he is hounded every night by 3 pesky rabbits who eat the spoils of Mr. McGreely's labor. Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! The sound the rabbits make when chomping greedily on the Vegetables.

Mr. McGreely comes

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up with all sorts of deterants to keep those rabbits out, but they are way too crafty and sneak back into the garden night after night. Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! In the end, the moral of this story? If you can't beat them, join them!

This story is really meant for an adult to read to a young child. Sure a developing reader can read it on their own but the real fun is where the reader can emphasize on the sounds of eating....Muncha! Muncha! Muncha!

The story is easy to read. It is entertaining. The pictures are nice to look at and follow the story. I would recommend it!

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Loved the word-play and the vocabulary. I have to admit that I'm feeling too unsettled by the lack of a directed interpretation to appreciate the book. I wish I knew a little child with whom to discuss the possible messages.

Get the audience to clap along to the rhythm of the rabbits' refrain ("Dig-scrabble, scratch, scratch, scratch!") and join in on "Muncha, muncha, muncha!"

Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! is an adorable and hilarious book to read to a child. It would be good for a read-aloud story time because of all of the sound-based action words. Children can guess what will come next, but they won't know the exact phrases, which makes it fun. The basic premise is that Mr.

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McGreenly decides to build a vegetable garden, but as soon as the sun goes down, three bunnies go into the garden to eat the vegetables. Mr. McGreenly sees this, gets angry, and builds bigger and supposedly better defenses to keep the bunnies out.

Recommended age: 2-4 years

Writing style: Rhythmic, sound-based action words, like "muncha, muncha, muncha" fill this book. As the farmer's defenses become more and more elaborate, these words are repeated again and again. Despite this repetition, the word choices are hard. It would be good for introducing action words, like climb, jump, squeeze, and crawl, or directions, like over, under, across, behind, and outside.

Lexile score: AD560L
Decoding difficulty: 5/5
Vocabulary difficulty: 5/5
Sentences difficulty: 5/5
Patterns difficulty: 4/5

Illustration style: It seems like a mix of colored pencils and watercolor with very crude outlines. I don't love it. As a warning, you need to pay attention to the pictures in this book in order to understand the full story and children will likely need you to point out the bunnies at the end.

Reality-based: Growing a vegetable garden, fences, and keeping animals out are realistic, but the extreme lengths the book goes to are not.

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A farmer tries and tries to save his farm. He is foiled by the rabbits over and over again.

Yep, that basically feels like my gardening experience.