The Hueys in the New Jumper
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780007420650 (000742065X)
Publish date: April 1st 2012
Publisher: HarperCollins
Edition language: English
I was worried at first. Would this be a message about acceptance and tolerance? No, it's about trendiness! I love the irony at the top of the story arc: Before long, they were all different and no one was the same anymore. I laughed out loud here. The illustration style is a great postmodern use of ...
Honestly, I can't say why this one charmed me. There are plenty of picture books about following the crowd, and many of them use penguins, of which I am inordinately fond. This uses strangely egg-like beings called Hueys. And where I admire the ability of artists like Mo Willems to create evocative ...
Rupert makes all the other Hueys realize it's cool to be different. Funny and ironic.
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