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Where Does Joe Go? - Hardcover

Pearson, Tracey Campbell

 
9780374383190: Where Does Joe Go?
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0374383197 ISBN 13: 9780374383190
Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 1999

Inhaltsangabe

A Christmas story for all year round!

Joe's Snack Bar is a favorite summer spot where happy customers from all over town come to buy ice cream cones and french fries. But every time autumn rolls around, Joe shuts down shop and disappears until the next summer. The townspeople all have their own theories about where he goes: "He's gone to the moon," cries tiny June. "He's on a safari," says Charlie McFarley. "In Okefenokee!" screams Mrs. Bodokey. They're all wrong, of course. Joe's actually in charge at the North Pole three quarters of the year, but only Joe and the reader will ever know. Food-and-fun-filled illustrations show how each person imagines what Joe could be up to.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Tracey Campbell Pearson's previous picture books include The Howling Dog and The Purple Hat. She lives in Jericho Center, Vermont.

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PreSchool-K-Joe runs a snack bar in the spring and summer. But where does he go in the winter? In this fanciful picture book, the man's neighbors speculate on his off-season whereabouts. Double-page spreads reveal both the speculator and the speculation, visually suggesting a relationship between the two. Pearson's artwork and the sense of community the artist projects are reminiscent of her The Storekeeper (Dial, 1988; o.p.). Her watercolor and pen-and-ink illustrations have a few quirky details and their storytelling capabilities enable her to keep her text brief without sacrificing the story's complexity. The text rhymes in the same fashion as Barbara Emberley's Drummer Hoff (S & S, 1967), as members of the neighborhood guess where Joe has gone: '" maybe the beach,' said old Mr. Leach," '" having tea with the Queen,' whispered Molly McLeen." This book touches on skills increasingly incorporated in preschool and primary-grade curriculums-prediction and extrapolation-and it's fun.
Liza Bliss, Worcester Public Library, MA
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

One of the cleverest entries this season looks nothing like a holiday book. Cartoon illustrations chockablock with witty details serve as a red herring for readers, who will have fun speculating along with the customers of a popular snack bar as to the off-season destination of Joe, the plump, white-bearded owner. "'He's gone to the moon,' cried tiny June," who pictures Joe handing ice cream cones and hot dogs to astronauts. " 'He's in the city,' suggested Kitty," who envisions him on a crowded street, serving throngs of pedestrians from a sidewalk stand. Fresh and funny, this light-hearted romp concludes with a wordless surprise ending: Joe is none other than Santa. Ages 3-7.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Old Joe with his round belly and snow white beard is a familiar sight at his summer snack shack selling ice cream and other treats. But in the fall, Joe boards up the shack and leaves. Where does he go? That's what everyone wonders. Each two-page spread features fanciful answers to that question. Most of the text appears in sidebars: "`He's gone to the moon,' cried tiny June"; "`He's digging for bones,' said Oliver Jones." The panel shows the town engaged in an activity that mirrors what Joe may be doing. The boy who shovels snow thinks about Joe in the desert on a dinosaur dig; baby June and her mom are searching the heavens, and, perhaps, Joe is selling ice cream to space men. It is the way the comings and goings of the town folk and their invented musing about Joe play against each other that makes the book work so well. As always, Pearson's line-and-watercolor artwork is chock-full of things to see. Whether Joe is in the swamp feeding ice cream to alligators or on Fifth Avenue selling ice cream out of a stand to busy shoppers, the charmingly crowded art allows for lots of laughs. And where does Joe spend the winter? The last page shows him where readers might have guessed--at the North Pole, dressed as Santa, reindeer nibbling at the ice cream in his hands. Ilene Cooper

A sprightly set of illustrations from the always inventive Pearson (The Purple Hat, 1997, etc.) offer hints on one of the biggest mysteries of the agesSaint Nick's summer job. Joe comes to town each spring to open up Joe's Snack Bar, selling hot dogs, ice cream, and fries to an enthusiastic and varied summertime public. Every fall, he disappears, and folks wonder where he goes. Breaking into rhyme, the townspeople offer various scenarios: `` `He's gone to the moon!'/cried tiny June,'' or having tea with the queen, ``whispered Molly McLeen'' or off to the pyramids, ``yelled all the Biddy kids.'' Each spread is full of friendly colors and the wiggly details of people, places, and cats. Joe and his trademark food items appear in each, too, with nibbles tossed to the alligators in Okefenokee or the dolphins from a cruise ship. Joe returns, of course, the following spring, red-checked, round-bellied, and with a full white beard. Just in case readers still don't know how he spends the winters, the last, wordless page offers a can't-miss clue, and the reindeer like ice cream, too. (Picture book. 3-7) -- Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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Verlag
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0374383197
ISBN 13 
9780374383190
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Zeichner
Pearson Tracey Campbell
Anzahl der Seiten
32
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