Douglas, You're a Genius!

by Ged Adamson

Overview

Laugh along with a dog named Douglas and his pal Nancy in this silly follow-up to Douglas, You Need Glasses! as the friends execute outrageous plans to meet their neighbors.

Pals Nancy and Douglas think their baseball game is over after their ball rolls through a hole in the fence. But when the ball rolls back, followed by a note in an unfamiliar language, they have to discover who's on the other side of the fence. And so in a series of truly outrageous—and hilarious—stunts, Nancy tries to launch, vault, and fly Douglas over to the other side to see what's what. Finally, after all Nancy's plans fail, Douglas gets his turn to execute a plan—and it works! And who do they find? New friends who speak Spanish. Readers will laugh out loud at the antics in this zany picture book, which proves that working together makes everything more fun.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781524765309
Publisher:	Random House Children's Books
Publication date:	09/11/2018
Pages:	40
Sales rank:	1,129,168
Product dimensions:	8.60(w) x 11.10(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range:	3 - 7 Years

About the Author

GED ADAMSON is the author and illustrator of Douglas, You Need Glasses!;I Want to Grow; and most recently, Shark Dog! He has worked as a cartoonist, a storyboard artist, and a music composer. It was always his ambition to write and illustrate picture books. Ged lives in London with his family. Learn more at gedadamson.com and follow him on Twitter at @ged_adamson.

Editorial Reviews

"If Adamson can make so much entertaining hay out of a simple day in the backyard, it’s likely we’ll be seeing more Douglas stories." —Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2018-05-28
The mystery of new neighbors on the other side of a high fence leads Nancy and her dog, Douglas, to a bilingual surprise in a confident follow-up to Douglas, You Need Glasses! (2016).One day when Nancy and Douglas hit a ball through a small hole in their fence, it's rolled back. After sending over a toy train with a message of greeting, they receive messages in Spanish including, "¡Hola!" and "Queremos conocerte" ("Hello" and "We'd like to meet you," respectively; an opening glossary is provided for those who don't read Spanish). This makes the duo so curious that Nancy hatches a series of elaborate, graph-paper-diagrammed schemes to somehow scale the fence. When, thanks to Douglas, the two finally meet their Spanish-speaking neighbors, another kid and dog who were also busy trying to meet them. It ends with plans for an escalator and water slide, because of course it does. Adamson's wit extends not only to some bits of subtle visual humor (some birds build a nest on Douglas' head while they wait), but to the paper plans themselves, which are as needlessly elaborate as they are funny. If there's a missed opportunity it's that readers don't get to know the Spanish-writing pair at all, even their names. Nancy and the neighbor kid both have pale skin.If Adamson can make so much entertaining hay out of a simple day in the backyard, it's likely we'll be seeing more Douglas stories. (Picture book. 3-7)

Kirkus Reviews