I have lost many virtual friends this year over petty, silly issues and I hope we can patch up real soon. I usually wonder whether a happy ending is only for fictional books and won’t the real-life adults don’t experience that. I loved the ending, how both friends patched up, and that’s a beautiful reminder for adults, too. When you flip the pages, you can find quirky pictures of the machine and the bubble competition judges are wonderfully illustrated.Ī story apt for older kids, too, and one can remind them not to have a competition between friends and not to have any silly encounters. The illustrations are beautiful and it’s just another Percival styled book. Will they realize the power of friendship rather than the silly competition? Rueben and Felix are best friends and love doing things together Rueben said let’s find who the biggest bubble is? Rueben and Felix build a giant bubble machine Each bubble they blew was bigger and wonderful The competition was so intense that they both damaged each other’s machines The friends patched up and both blew a giant bubble.Ī book filled with many flaps and the story goes by lifting each flap and finding small snippets beneath it. They even went as far as cheating to try to blow the biggest bubble. They both went to an extreme to win the competition and their friendship came under a test. This all-new storybook adventure stars the characters from Nickelodeons Corn & Peg and includes over 30 stickers When a bubble storm overtakes Gall. This turned into a competition between the two friends and eventually started to fight. Their favourite game was to blow bubbles and one day Ruben said I can blow a much bigger bubbles than you. The beautifully simple pictures are a sweet, kid- and parent-appealing blend of comic-strip style and fine art the cast of children depicted is commendably multiethnic.Īlthough the love comes shining through, the text often confuses in straining for patterned simplicity.Ruben and Felix were best friends and did everything together. Some of the wordplay, such as “more can than knot” and “more pause than fast-forward,” will tickle older readers with their accompanying, comical illustrations. The line reads: “I wish you more treasures than pockets.” Most children will feel the better wish would be that he had just the right amount of pockets for his treasures. Grace Maccarone is the author of numerous childrens books including Miss Linas Ballerinas, Princess Tales: Once Upon a Time in Rhyme with Seek-and-Find. Then there's a picture of a boy on a beach, his pockets bulging with driftwood and colorful shells, looking frustrated that his pockets won't hold the rest of his beachcombing treasures, which lie tantalizingly before him on the sand. His feet are visible, but it's not clear whether he's floating in the deep end or standing in the shallow. The line “I wish you more tippy-toes than deep” accompanies a picture of a boy happily swimming in a pool. It starts out simply enough: two children run pell-mell across an open field, one holding a high-flying kite with the line “I wish you more ups than downs.” But on subsequent pages, some of the analogous concepts are confusing or ambiguous. 4-8)Ī collection of parental wishes for a child. The text floats across the pages in waves and arcs, and Dunbar’s joyous watercolor-and–cut-paper illustrations are wonderfully expressive, a visual treat moving apace with the text. Filled with lovely Briticisms, alliterative nonsense words, double, triple and internal rhymes, it’s meant to be read aloud-“Again!”-and will lead both breathless readers and listeners to delighted giggles. Mahy is a master at creating verse that is as light and airy as the baby’s bubble. Meanwhile, mischievous rebel Abel bursts the bubble with his slingshot and the villagers gallantly come to the rescue by catching him in a quilt. Treeble and Canon Dapple come up with an improbable plan to catch the bubbled baby. Chrysta and Greville Gribble, Tybal and his mother Sybil, the crabby Copples, feeble Mrs. Mabel blows a bubble that envelops her baby brother, gently wafting him all over the village, causing shock and excitement among the population.
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