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Sarcone-Roach, Julia
4 Reviews
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PS
Orange tabby Muffin recounts hearing a strange rumbling sound inside the bakery while on neighborhood night patrol and discovering it's coming from a hungry little bear's belly. Muffin's gumshoe persona is more soft-hearted than hard-boiled: the watch-cat offers the intruder (and a bigger bear) baked goods. The nighttime scenes are bathed in rich blues and blacks, with cool white moonlight and yellow streetlights adding shadows and suspense.
Reviewer: Kitty Flynn
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
March, 2019
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An offstage narrator spins this entertaining tale about a missing sandwich's fate: it involves a hungry bear, a berry-eating binge, a nap in the back of a pickup truck, and an unexpected road trip to the city. The diverting story and vibrant, impressionistic paintings help keep the narrator's identity--and unreliability--a surprise until the truth is unleashed ("Ruff! Ruff!").
Reviewer: Kitty Flynn
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
January, 2015
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K-3
Subway car Jessie begins service during the 1964 New York World's Fair. After approximately fifty years she's dismantled and dumped into the ocean. There she happily resides as an artificial reef, home to myriad sea animals. Sarcone-Roach allows her theme of reuse and recycling to emerge naturally from a fine tale. Cozy-looking illustrations emphasize the story's tone. An author's note is appended. Bib.
Reviewer: Betty Carter
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
November, 2011
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K-3
Young elephant Milo and his three kitten neighbors hate bedtime and other parent-enforced intrusions, so they conspire to hide; their efforts are comically unsuccessful, as rendered in Sarcone-Roach's considered acrylics. These spunky characters may live like humans, but they don't wear clothes--which makes for cutesiness-free illustrations but leads to the occasional difficulty distinguishing the kid characters from the adults.
Reviewer: Nell Beram
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