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REVIEWS of IT'S NOT MY TURN TO LOOK FOR
GRANDMA!
KIRKUS“This down-home tale of the oddball antics
of a granny is a perfect fit for Booth’s distinctive illustrations.
Ma’s hard at work, so she keeps sending one of the kids off
to fetch Grandma. But Grandma is always up to something eccentric,
soaking her foot in the stew pot on the stove, painting the
kids’ coats bright colors, sliding down the haystack with her
many animal pals. She’s too busy to help, until Ma asks that
she play her banjo. That Grandma will do, and the evening comes
to a close with a banjo-picking, sing-along hoedown. Wayland
(To Rabbittown, 1989) kindly includes music and words
to the tune, so readers can sing, too. Booth tones his people
down a notch, though Ma’s hitched-up elbows and Grandma’s clodhopper
shoes convey character with a minimum of detail…Grandma’s menagerie
includes porcupines, ducks, cats, dogs, and raccoons, there’s
ample opportunity for goofy cartooning.”
*SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL:
"The story's lively mountain twang is well paired with
wild cartoon illustrations that highlight its sassy tone. Finish
read-aloud with a sing-along (music and new lyrics provided).
It will be a silly good time for all." *Starred
review
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY: "From its...goony title-page
rendering of the Knopf borzoi to its droll locutions ('Where
in the hickory stick is Grandma?'), this volume establishes
a rollicking hootenanny feel...fans of the New Yorker artist
will instantly recognize a certain pointy-eared, barrel-chested
dog."
LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVIEW (Michael
Cart): "Los Angeles author April Halprin Wayland has
crafted a hilarious story full of memorable characters and,
thanks to her training as a poet, even more memorable turns
of idiomatic phrase ("Noon was sizzling like an egg in
a cast-iron pan"). Meanwhile, the great...cartoonist George
Booth has created wackily apposite pictures filled with eccentric...characters...caught
in laugh-out-loud situations..."
KIRKUS REVIEWS: "A brand new hill tale with
so much pep readers will swear it's been handed down for generations.
Read it out loud."
HORN BOOK: "An "imaginative romp, with...evocative,
homespun language and tall-tale feel..."
SING OUT! MAGAZINE: "What
a charming picture and story book from...April Halprin Wayland,
a Los Angeles children's writer, country fiddler and founder
of the
Santa
Monica Traditional Folk Music Club and New Yorker
cartoonist George Booth!"
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selected twice for inclusion in the CALIFORNIA
COLLECTION by California Readers
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recommended on PBS's "STORYTIME" !
Order IT’S
NOT MY TURN TO LOOK FOR GRANDMA!
Read IT’S NOT MY TURN TO
LOOK FOR GRANDMA!—The Play
IT'S NOT MY TURN TO LOOK FOR GRANDMA! can be
heard on the CD IT'S NOT MY TURN TO LOOK FOR
GRANDMA! AND OTHER STORIES, read by the
author, also singing and playing the fiddle on the "Chickadilla
Song".
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