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OH NO! WHERE ARE MY PANTS?

Name: OH NO! WHERE ARE MY PANTS?
Author: Lee Bennett Hopkins
ISBN: 0-688-17860-X

AND OTHER DISASTERS: POEMS

edited by Lee Bennett Hopkins & illustrated by Wolf Erlbruch ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 1, 2005

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Fourteen modern poets, many of them lesser-known, present a selective catalogue of common incidents or fluffs that can haunt children, from missing a big catch or suffering a moment of stage fright, to mourning the death of a class rabbit. Mostly, though, the contributors keep the mood light—“Hello apple! / Shiny red. / CHOMP. CHOMP. / Hello worm. / Where’s your head?”—and so does Erlbruch, with scenes of solitary youngsters rendered in chalky pastels and, generally, placed against little or no background, hanging their heads or looking mildly dismayed. Hopkins’s title comes from “Nightmare” in Judith Viorst’s classic If I Were in Charge of the World and Other Worries (1981), a similarly themed match. Read aloud or alone, these plaints are sure to elicit winces of understanding. And, often enough, sympathetic laughter. (acknowledgments) (Poetry. 7-9)

Pub Date: March 1, 2005

ISBN: 0-688-17860-X

Page Count: 32

Publisher: HarperCollins

Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 15, 2005

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CHILDREN'S SOCIAL THEMES | CHILDREN'S POETRY

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BLESS OUR PETS
edited by Lee Bennett Hopkins ; illustrated by Lita Judge

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NIGHT WISHES
edited by Lee Bennett Hopkins ; illustrated by Jen Corace

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CONSTRUCTION PEOPLE
edited by Lee Bennett Hopkins ; illustrated by Ellen Shi

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ADA LACE, ON THE CASE

From the Ada Lace series , Vol. 1

by Emily Calandrelli & Tamson Weston ; illustrated by Renée Kurilla ‧ RELEASE DATE: Aug. 29, 2017

The story feels a bit contrived, but Ada will be a welcome addition to the small circle of science-loving girls in the...

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Using science and technology, third-grader Ada Lace kicks off her new series by solving a mystery even with her leg in a cast.

Temporarily housebound after a badly executed bungee jump, Ada uses binoculars to document the ecosystem of her new neighborhood in San Francisco. She records her observations in a field journal, a project that intrigues new friend Nina, who lives nearby. When they see that Ms. Reed’s dog, Marguerite, is missing, they leap to the conclusion that it has been stolen. Nina does the legwork and Ada provides the technology for their search for the dognapper. Story-crafting takes a back seat to scene-setting in this series kickoff that introduces the major players. As part of the series formula, science topics and gadgetry are integrated into the stories and further explained in a “Behind the Science” afterword. This installment incorporates drones, a wireless camera, gecko gloves, and the Turing test as well as the concept of an ecosystem. There are no ethnic indicators in the text, but the illustrations reveal that Ada, her family, and bratty neighbor Milton are white; Nina appears to be Southeast Asian; and Mr. Peebles, an inventor who lives nearby, is black.

The story feels a bit contrived, but Ada will be a welcome addition to the small circle of science-loving girls in the chapter-book world. (Fiction. 7-9)

Pub Date: Aug. 29, 2017

ISBN: 978-1-4814-8599-9

Page Count: 128

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Review Posted Online: May 23, 2017

Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 2017

Categories:

CHILDREN'S SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY | CHILDREN'S SOCIAL THEMES

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ADA LACE SEES RED
by Emily Calandrelli with Tamson Weston ; illustrated by Renée Kurilla

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POCKET POEMS

edited by Bobbi Katz & illustrated by Marylin Hafner ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 1, 2004

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With an eye toward easy memorization, Katz gathers over 50 short poems from the likes of Emily Dickinson, Valerie Worth, Jack Prelutsky, and Lewis Carroll, to such anonymous gems as “The Burp”—“Pardon me for being rude. / It was not me, it was my food. / It got so lonely down below, / it just popped up to say hello.” Katz includes five of her own verses, and promotes an evident newcomer, Emily George, with four entries. Hafner surrounds every selection with fine-lined cartoons, mostly of animals and children engaged in play, reading, or other familiar activities. Amid the ranks of similar collections, this shiny-faced newcomer may not stand out—but neither will it drift to the bottom of the class. (Picture book/poetry. 7-9)