Mini Monday #50

The Hueys in The New Sweater by Oliver Jeffers

Release Date: May 24^th 2012
Publisher: Philomel
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 32
Source: Library
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A brand-new series and cast of characters from the mind of Oliver Jeffers

The Hueys are small and mischievous, unique compared to the world's other creatures--but hardly unique to one another. You see, each Huey looks the same, thinks the same, and does the same exact things. So you can imagine the chaos when one of them has the idea of knitting a sweater! It seems like a good idea at the time--he is quite proud of it, in fact--but it does make him different from the others. So the rest of the Hueys, in turn, decide that they want to be different too! How? By knitting the exact same sweater, of course!

The first in a series of child-and-consumer-friendly books, Oliver Jeffers proves that standing apart can be accomplished even when standing together.

This was a cute story about a group of creatures that liked doing everything the same. Until one day when Rupert decided that he wanted to nit himself a sweater. This of course was frowned upon by the other Hueys until they saw Gillespie also with a sweater. Then everyone decides they want to be different by wearing a sweater too.

This book was a good lesson that it is ok to be different sometimes. However, you are no longer different when everyone else is doing the same thing. Both of my sons liked the book and my three year old even sat through it. He liked pointing out Rupert when he first started wearing the sweater. The illustrations are just pencil drawings with splashes of color every couple pages.

Rating:
Thumbs up!

 

This is Not My Hat by Jon Klassen

Release Date: October 9^th 2012
Publisher: Candlewick
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 40
Source: Library
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When a tiny fish shoots into view wearing a round blue topper (which happens to fit him perfectly), trouble could be following close behind. So it's a good thing that enormous fish won't wake up. And even if he does, it's not like he'll ever know what happened...

Visual humor swims to the fore as the best-selling Jon Klassen follows his breakout debut with another deadpan-funny tale.

This was a very simple story about a little fish that steals a big fish’s hat and thinks that he is going to swim away and keep it for himself. Even though he knows that steeling is wrong. The illustrations are pretty minimalistic. Just the fish and some sea weed. My older son was pretty sure that the little fish gets eaten in the end although it doesn’t actually show.

Rating:
Thumbs up!