Petey and Pru and the Hullabaloo

by Ammi-Joan Paquette, Joy Ang (Illustrator)

Overview

Petey is enjoying a peaceful afternoon of gardening when his good friend Pru starts to cause trouble. Petey reacts in turn, and before long, things have escalated from a scuffle to a tussle to a true hullabaloo!

This beautifully illustrated story about the true meaning of friendship is packed with excitement and near disaster as well as vocabulary-expanding words that are fun to say and thrilling to master. Glossary.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780544023871
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	10/08/2013
Sold by:	HARPERCOLLINS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	40
Lexile:	280L (what's this?)
File size:	5 MB
Age Range:	4 - 7 Years

About the Author

Ammi-Joan Paquette's previous picture books include The Tiptoe Guide to Tracking Fairies and The Tiptoe Guide to Tracking Mermaids. She lives outside Boston, Massachusetts, and can be found at www.ajpaquette.com.

Joy Ang has illustrated many picture books in addition to the Mustache Baby books, including the New York Times best-selling The Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide for the World’s Most Adventurous Kid. She lives in Bellevue, Washington.  

joyang.ca
Twitter at @Joy_Ang

Editorial Reviews

"The story includes more than 20 fun words like 'shenanigans' and 'defenestration' set in bold type; their definitions are on the endpapers."
—School Library Journal "Here's hoping that there are more kerfuffles and shenanigans in the future for this undeniably delightful duo."
—Kirkus, starred review

"This is the perfect way to introduce bigger words to your littlest kids, which is great if you're feeling tricksy."
—The Huffington Post —

From the Publisher

PreS-K—Petey's quiet afternoon spent gardening is interrupted when his friend Pru arrives with her caterwauling cats. He tries to stop the noise by calling for his dog, but the animals' meeting only increases the mayhem. The fight that ensues ends in a dramatic (but safe), fall from a cliff onto the top of a hot-air balloon. While admiring the view, the pair realize, "life is too short not to cherish true friendship." The story includes more than 20 fun words like "shenanigans" and "defenestration" set in bold type; their definitions are on the endpapers. The digital illustrations are bursting with vibrant color and exaggerated clashes. Children may be confused by the message of friendship in this book when they see Pru's mischievous behavior on the last page-she is "feeling tricksy" on that balloon-but it should garner some good discussion.—Tanya Boudreau, Cold Lake Public Library, AB, Canada

School Library Journal

★ 2013-09-15
Quiet Petey and his devil spawn of a best friend indulge in a little chaos propelled by gleefully sesquipedalian writing. Pru, a ginger-haired kid in a gray knit cap, carefully collects kitties on her way to her best friend Petey's greenhouse. Inside, the serene chap is potting a little plant, happy in his tranquility. That bliss is upended when Pru, "feeling tricksy," pierces the quiet with a caterwauling chorus of cats. Petey retaliates by inviting in a dog, but the inevitable anarchy is far more to Pru's liking than Petey's: "It's a BROUHAHA!" They erupt into fisticuffs and find themselves falling to certain doom. Fortunately, they are saved at the last minute and make up with each other…until Pru feels another bout of mischief coming on. At every opportunity, Paquette works in a word or phrase that might be unfamiliar to her readership; these are helpfully set in bold type. Highlighted words include everything from "higgledy-piggledy" and "peeved" to "mayhem" and the fabulous "defenestration." Rather than come off as jarring, these words blend seamlessly with the plot, aided in no small part by Ang's pitch-perfect digital art. Even the endpapers do double duty as a glossary of the aforementioned terms. Here's hoping that there are more kerfuffles and shenanigans in the future for this undeniably delightful duo. (Picture book. 4-8)

Kirkus Reviews