Billy Bloo Is Stuck in Goo

by Jennifer Hamburg, Ross Burach (Illustrator)

Overview

A rollicking read-aloud with the rhyme, rhythm and repetition of such classics as I Know an Old Lady and Dr. Seuss's And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street.

2018 CBC Children's & Teen Choice Book Awards FinalistBilly Bloo is stuck in goo.Who will help him, tell me who? Who'll unstick him from this goo? Would you?With madcap mania,a troupe of merry volunteersattempt to rescue poor Billy Bloo,only to find themselves stuck in goo too!Oh, what to do? This spry, slapstick comedy of errorswill have you rolling with laughter(but hopefully not into any goo!).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780545880152
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	07/25/2017
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	666,759
Product dimensions:	9.20(w) x 11.10(h) x 0.50(d)
Lexile:	AD540L (what's this?)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Jennifer Hamburg is an Emmy Award-winning children's television writer whose hit shows include Doc McStuffins, Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, Super Why! , Henry Hugglemonster, and Creative Galaxy. She is the author of Monkey and Duck Quack Up! , illustrated by Edwin Fotheringham, a spring 2015 Indie Favorite, and Billy Bloo Is Stuck in Goo. Jennifer lives happily with her husband and gooey children in Houston, Texas. Visit Jennifer at www.jenniferhamburg.com.
ROSS BURACH is the creator of the riotously funny Very Impatient Caterpillar series that includes The Very Impatient Caterpillar; The Little Butterfly That Could; Goodnight, Butterfly; and Make Way for Butterfly. All the books combine humor with curriculum-friendly science topics and relatable social-emotional themes. Ross's other acclaimed books include the picture book Truck Full of Ducks, the board books I Love My Tutu Too!, Potty All-Star, Hi-Five Farm!, and Hi-Five Animals!, named the best board book of the year by Parents magazine, and the Acorn early reader series Bumble and Bee. Ross lives with his family in Brooklyn, New York. You can visit him online at rossburach.com.

Editorial Reviews

05/22/2017
Never mind how that giant heap of green goo got there, or why little Billy Bloo ignored the sign (on the title page) that reads “Whatever you do... do not go in the goo!” Now he’s stuck and so is everyone who comes along to extract him, an oddball assemblage that ends up including “Four acrobats, the cowgirl too/ the octopus, the wizard (who/ just conjured up a talking ewe)/ the pirate, and the noble crew.” (The crew consists of a queen and 17 loyal knights.) Everyone is unwilling to give up the struggle, but even the queen can’t help wondering, “What happens if I need the loo?” Suddenly, a startled octopus inadvertently frees everyone—briefly. Burach’s (I Am Not a Chair!) loosey-goosey illustrations contrast the glistening, almost three-dimensional goo with a flattened, high-energy cartoon cast that looks as though it sprang directly from a child’s imagination. And Hamburg’s (Monkey and Duck Quack Up!) freewheeling verse—which includes lots of “goo” rhymes and direct addresses to readers—gives readers plenty to linger (and laugh) over. Ages 4–8. Author’s agent: Jennifer De Chiara, Jennifer De Chiara Literary. Illustrator’s agent: Lara Perkins, Andrea Brown Literary. (July)

Publishers Weekly

Praise for Billy Bloo Is Stuck in Goo by Jennifer Hamburg, illustrated by Ross Burach:2018 CBC Children's & Teen Choice Book Awards Finalist"Begs to be read aloud….Gleeful, errant nonsense." — Kirkus Reviews"Plenty to linger (and laugh) over." — Publishers Weekly"Lots of giggles and goo, and weird characters too, in this rhyming cumulative storytime read-aloud, make this title a must-have for picture book collections." — School Library JournalPraise for Monkey and Duck Quack Up! by Jennifer Hamburg:Spring 2015 Indie PickBeginning Readers 2016 ILA-CBC Children's Choices List Book2016 Cooperative Children's Book Center Choices List Book"With a three-day cruise on the line as a prize, Monkey drafts his friend Duck to participate in a rhyming contest . . . bright bold artwork . . . serious read-aloud potential." — Publishers Weekly"Younger listeners will enjoy completing Monkey's unfinished verses within the story, and slightly older children will be spurred to create their own lists of rhyming words." — Booklist"A solid choice for rhyming play." — Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2017-03-29
Altruism runs amuck—or at least into muck—in this glutinous outing.In rollicking rhymed verse that really begs to be read aloud, an entire cavalcade of would-be rescuers, from a pirate to a queen with 17 nobles, joins a careless lad mired in a large and expanding mound of glutinous green glop. "Dear friends, how very kind of you / to try and get me out of goo. / I do admire all your pluck. / Just thought I'd point out… / I'M STILL STUCK!!!" In his rambunctious cartoon illustrations Burach miscounts those "nobles." Still, he not only nicely captures the frantic slapstick of the gooey goings-on, but also steps out of what is still, sad to note, the picture-book mainstream by depicting Billy and the other human members of the popeyed cast, except for a wizard and a purple acrobat, as brown-skinned. The goo itself has a pleasingly disgusting and shiny look to it. A mouse's sneeze at last causes a large pink octopus to jump out with all the rest in tow—but Billy loses a shoe, which everyone else immediately jumps back in to fetch. Hamburg leaves readers with a question: "What would you do?" Besides chortling at such gleeful, errant nonsense, that is. (Picture book. 5-7)

Kirkus Reviews