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Briggs, Raymond
3 Reviews
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Briggs's classic wordless picture book (and Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winner) is reissued in a small-format board book. The art reproduction is excellent; however, the small trim size means that most of the panels are one-inch squares and take careful scrutiny to interpret.
Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
February, 1979
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In this offbeat tale, Tom drags his indulgent grandfather out to play in puddles and is unfazed that they have dried up. Wandering away from Grandpa, Tom finds the friendly Puddleman with a stack of diaphanous puddles on his back and helps fit them into the right holes. Briggs uses his signature comic-strip format to dramatize each bit of dialogue with panache.
Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
November, 2006
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Marooned in a cartoon stone age of Briggs's own cunning invention, Ug imagines improvements to make life "nicer," but his ideas meet with mystification and scorn. In this wistful tale of the loneliness of innovative thinkers, Briggs takes all the sophomoric jokiness of the comic strip and transforms corn into gold. Briggs champions the tentative, sympathizes with the perplexed, and persuades us of the heroism of a failed vision.
Reviewer: Sarah Ellis
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
November, 2002
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