The Careless Kangaroo

by Earle Goodenow, Earle Goodenow (Illustrator), Juliet Ellis-Behnke (Introduction)

Overview

“Now what did I do with my hat?” That is the sort of question Mrs. Kangaroo kept asking herself. She had to. She kept losing things. She was careless.
Mrs. Kangaroo was very careless and very forgetful. Why, she could forget where she was and what she was supposed to be doing and even whether or not she had eaten breakfast.
Mrs. Kangaroo almost never was careless about Joey. Joey was her baby, and he rode in a pocket on her tummy. (They live in Australia.) But one day she was a little careless about Joey. Mrs. Kangaroo thought she had tucked Joey into her pocket, but instead she went off with a . . . You will find out when you read all about The Careless Kangaroo.
27 color pictures illustrate the silly capers of Mrs. Kangaroo.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940016082844
Publisher:	Minus the Ink Digital Publishing Group LLC
Publication date:	12/17/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	35
File size:	16 MB
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Age Range:	6 - 8 Years

About the Author

Earle A. Goodenow was born in 1913 in Chicago. He was the youngest of three sons of Lucene Goodenow, a nationally recognized painter and sculptor whose carved ivory portraits were exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington D.C., and Kyohei Inukai, an internationally known watercolor portrait artist whose family emigrated from Japan when he was a young boy. He was awarded the Maynard Prize in 1926 from the National Academy of Design.
Goodenow (who, along with his brothers Julian and Girard, adopted their mother’s name after her divorce from Inukai) was nationally known for his humorous illustrations, particularly in children’s books, such as, The Bashful Bear, The Lazy Llama, The Careless Kangaroo, The Peevish Penguin, The Owl Who Hated the Dark and The Last Camel. His best work, however, is widely agreed to be the detailed, colorful illustrations commissioned for Arabian Nights.
Goodenow, who lived and worked in New York City, was married with two daughters. He died in 1985.