Noni the Pony Rescues a Joey

by Alison Lester, Alison Lester (Illustrator)

Overview

Noni the Pony and her friends help a lost wallaby joey find his family in this jaunty follow-up to Noni the Pony and Noni the Pony Goes to the Beach.

Noni the Pony and her friends Dave Dog and Coco the Cat are headed out to spend the day roaming the hills near Waratah Bay. But then they meet a lost wallaby joey who needs help finding his family. So Noni, Dave, and Coco ask all of their animal friends, from koala to wombat to possum, if anyone has seen the wallaby family. Will they be able to help their new friend find his way home?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781534443716
Publisher:	Beach Lane Books
Publication date:	06/11/2019
Series:	Noni the Pony Series
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	32
Lexile:	570L (what's this?)
File size:	35 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	2 - 5 Years

About the Author

Alison Lester has written and illustrated numerous children’s books. She has won many awards in her native Australia, including the Children’s Book Council of Australia Picture Book Award, and in 2011 she was named the Australian Children’s Laureate. Over her career she has produced such picture book classics as the Clive Eats Alligators series, the Noni the Pony series, Magic Beach, Imagine, and My Farm, and has written novels including The Quicksand Pony and the Bonnie and Sam series. Visit her at AlisonLester.com.

Editorial Reviews

"Lovable....Lester’s pleasing rhymes and pictures conveys the soothing message that all will be well. A satisfying, reassuring Australian picture book."

April 19, 2019 - Booklist

"Lovable....Lester’s pleasing rhymes and pictures conveys the soothing message that all will be well. A satisfying, reassuring Australian picture book."

April 19, 2019 - Booklist

06/01/2019

PreS-K–The star of Noni the Pony and Noni the Pony Goes to the Beach is back with her dear friends Dave Dog and Coco the Cat. They are off together for a playful day of roaming around when they meet a wallaby joey who is clearly lost and alone. Noni and her pals are ready to help and make an adventure out of it. They begin to ask their friends—Koala, Wombat, Platypus, Emu, Echidna, Possum, Goanna, and Quoll—but no one is much help at all. The rhyming text forces readers to pick up speed, which allows for great anticipation. What will happen to the poor joey if they cannot find his parents? Noni invites him to stay with her but just as the friends get back to their home by the bay, "who do they see in the twilight's dim glow?/The wallaby family, looking for Joe!" The animals celebrate the reunion. Young children will relate to the themes of friendship and feeling scared, along with the lesson of staying close by your family. The detailed illustrations, which include black outlined drawings with textured backgrounds, bring all of the animals to life and are perfect for the preschool age group as they will learn what some unfamiliar animals look like. VERDICT Recommended for general purchase for a picture book collection for young children. This will make for a great read-aloud on the topics of animals, friendship, or feelings and is a soothing bedtime story.—Kristen Todd-Wurm, Middle Country Public Library, NY

School Library Journal

2019-03-17
After Noni the Pony and pals Coco (a cat) and Dave (a dog) meet a young wallaby on the trail, they help him find his family.

Continuing her rhyming series, Lester lets Noni the Pony do what she does best—run free in the Australian hills. Noni is exploring with her two friends when they discover a lost, distressed wallaby joey. Thinking his family group, also called a mob, must be near, the four animals start looking. On their way, they meet several well-known Australian animals such as a koala, a wombat, a platypus, and an emu as well as others perhaps less familiar to American readers, such as an echidna, a possum, a goanna, and a quoll. Unfortunately, "no one has spotted the wallaby mob, / and Joey's small sniffle becomes a big sob," so Noni invites Joey to her home. It's there that they find Joey's wallaby family, and everyone celebrates their reunion by the light of the moon. This simple tale is a nifty introduction to Australian animals and their homes. As a read-aloud, the dialogue will need a bit of practice to keep the meter. Illustrations are colorful and detailed, with splashes of humor (Noni and Dave have identical orange-and-white coloring, and the cow chorus line is a hoot), but the wallaby family is shown as a father, mother and two children when usually only one wallaby is born at a time.

A sweet tale of friends helping friends. (Picture book. 3-6)

Kirkus Reviews