Overview / 简介: |
Balloons are bright and floaty and shiny and perfect.
More than anything else in the whole wide world, Isabel wants a balloon. Everyone will get one on Graduation Day—everyone except the porcupines, because Porcupines + Balloons = Trouble
But Isabel isn't going to settle for another boring bookmark. She has a plan. . . .
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From Organization / 国外机构评价: |
| Kindergarten-Grade 2—On graduation day, every animal will receive a balloon—except for Isabel and Walter, because their quills don't mix well with inflatables. Their teacher promises them each a special graduation bookmark, but the young porcupines long for balloons. Iris sets out to design the perfect apparatus to shield their quills, and after several tries, she finds the perfect solution. Illustrations full of color and personality add to the story's depth and appeal. Authentic dialogue, a touch of humor, and Isabel's ingenious invention make this tale of desire and determination a keeper.—Amanda Moss Struckmeyer, Middleton Public Library, WI
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Foreign Customer Review / 国外客户评价: |
| I have never taken time out to write a review but had to do it for this book. It's beaufully illustrated and colorful (the animals' facial expressions are expertly drawn to look very much like those of small children), I would not be surprised if it won a Caldecott medal this year.
This is an adorable story about a porcupine who wants a balloon of her own. (Balloons are given out to all the animals - except the porcupines - at graduation in their school.) Isabel is given several reasons why they cannot have one. After each reason, she counter argues, and tests several solutions, persistently trying to achieve her goals. Ultimately she arrrives at a solution that persuades her teacher to hand out balloons to all the porcupines. The teacher, a porcupine herself, is even delighted to choose her own balloon at the end of the story.
Particularly noteworthy is that this is a story in which the main character is a female who works patiently and persistently until she achieves her goals (unlike all the popular stories about dim-witted, passive princesses who do nothing to solve their own problems). My 4 year old wants to read it again & again. |
About the Author / 作者介绍: |
| Deborah Underwood grew up in Walla Walla, Washington. When she was little, she wanted to be an astronomer. Then she wanted to be a singer. Then she wanted to be a writer. Today her jobs are writing and singing. Two out of three's not bad! (Okay, she also wanted to work in a piano factory and paste the labels on new pianos, but let's just ignore that one.)
Her dad was a math professor, and her mom taught English. Her sister got all the math brains, but some of her mom's word sense rubbed off on her, thank goodness. After college, she moved to San Francisco and became a street musician. Then she worked in an office typing memos for accountants. When the accountants weren't looking, she wrote screenplays. She found that if she glowered at the computer screen and yelled, "Criminy!" once in a while, everyone thought she was typing a very demanding memo and left her alone.
In 2001, Deborah decided to start writing stories for kids. She also began writing children's nonfiction. When a publisher asks her to write a nonfiction book, she usually doesn't know much about the topic. That means she has to learn fast. Now she knows about lots of cool things, like smallpox and orangutans and Easter Island and whether or not it's okay to slurp your noodles in Japan (it is).
When she's not writing, you might find her singing in a chamber choir, playing a ukulele (very badly), walking around in Golden Gate Park, baking vegan cookies, or petting any dogs, cats, pigs, or turkeys that happen to be nearby. |
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