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Rosoff, Meg

Jumpy Jack & Googily

32 pp. | Holt | May, 2008 | Trade ISBN 978-0-8050-8066-7 $16.95
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Sophie Blackall. Snail Jumpy Jack is afraid there's a monster behind a tree, under the table, etc. At each stumbling point his friend Googily reassures him. What Jumpy Jack doesn’t realize (though readers will): Googily himself is a (not-too-scary) monster. After such child-friendly humor, the flat ending is a letdown. Blackall illustrates this disarming look at fear with precision and a surrealist’s eye.
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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