What Planet Are You From, Clarice Bean?
Author | : | |
Rating | : | 4.12 (535 Votes) |
Asin | : | 0763616966 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 32 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2017-03-28 |
Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Besides, there's something a lot more interesting going on at home. Award-winning author-illustrator Lauren Child's by-now familiar, zany style (Clarice Bean, That's Me, Clarice Bean, Guess Who's Babysitting?) features collage illustrations with scribbly drawings and real photos, and fonts gone mad: big, little, upside-down, spiraling, sideways whatever the text calls for, no holds barred. While learning about the environment and planet Earth ("Sometimes I think gravity is a pity") Clarice Bean winds up with Robert Granger ("I
And now they're both up a tree."Sometimes I think gravity is a pity," says Clarice Bean, who is learning all about planet Earth in school. Her brother Kurt just wants to save the planet. But when she learns that a big tree right on Navarino Street is about to be chopped to pieces, Clarice has no choice but to join her quirky family up in the tree’s branches, eat spaghetti, and save the day.In a welcome new installment in the Clarice Bean escapades, Lauren Child makes a clear case for ecoaction - and gives the cause of saving the planet a hilarious new spin.. Wilberton assigns a project called The Envir
"Five Stars" according to Tuly. Great illustrations!. "Clarice Bean is Back and Better than Ever" according to Roz Levine. Poor Clarice Bean, just a bit late to school, and now her teacher, Mrs Wilberton, has paired her with that awful Robert Granger for a project on the environment. Boring Robert wants to see who can walk faster, a snail or a worm. Could things get any worse? Obviously, yes they can, as her teenage brother Kurt informs the family. The city's going to cut down a tree right on their street. An old hundred year old tree. Kurt is upset and too depressed to even eat, and decides to camp out un. Caryn Gediman said Not a full length story but still terrific!. For some reason, I expected this to be a full length book like Spells Trouble or Don't Look Now, but this is a picture book. However, a true Clarice fan will still love it. My 11 year old has read it twice because it shares the same wit as the longer Clarice Bean stories. The illustrations are wonderful and show some of the characters that don't appear in the other books, which my daugher was thrilled about. Bottom line, she loved it! I have to say if I had known that it was a picture