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Ponti, Claude
3 Reviews
(3)
K-3
Translated by Skeeter Grant.
In this comic book translated from the French, Adele escapes a crowded sandbox and embarks on a fantastic adventure. To ease beginning readers, the straightforward, deadpan text runs along the white space at the bottom of the pages. The ink and watercolor illustrations, reminiscent of Maurice Sendak's art, make no such concessions, instead reveling in the grotesque and in their own busy complexity.
Reviewer: Dorrie Karlin
(3)
K-3
Toon Book series.
In this comic-style reader based on two French books, friends Chick and Chickie make masks together and then "play school"--sort of. A large letter A joins them, and Chick and Chickie tickle, throw, and scare him before leaving him alone. New readers will enjoy the friends' humorous repartee while conquering the simple, straightforward sentences. The cleanly rendered illustrations help convey meaning.
Reviewer: Beth L. Meister
(3)
K-3
Translated by Mary Martin Holliday.
Seven minimal tales with cartoonish storyboard illustrations feature Jules the Zert, the Brick (his love object), Ned the Nail, and the other nonhuman inhabitants of DeZert Isle. This French import works because of the play between its absurd situations and deadpan prose ("[Jules] loves to offer a hippopotamelon to the Brick"), although only mature kids--and immature adults--will get the jokes.
Reviewer: Nell Beram
3 reviews
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