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Dozens of Cousins
Author:
Crum, Shutta
Illustrator:
Catrow, David
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Class:
Easy
Age: 3-8
Language: English
Descriptors: Picture Book
Demand: Moderate
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LC: PZ7
Grade: P-3
Print Run: 15000
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ISBN-13: 9780618158744
LCCN: 2012005010
Imprint: Clarion Books
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Pub Date: 07/02/2013
Availability: Available
List: $17.99
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Hardcover
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Physical Description:
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32 p. : col. ill. ; 21 x 27 cm.
H 8",
W 10",
D 0.36",
0.68 lbs.
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LC Series:
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Brodart Sources:
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Brodart's For Youth Interest Titles
Brodart's For Youth Interest: Popular
Brodart's Fresh Reads for Kids TIPS Selections
Brodart's Insight Catalog: Children
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Bibliographies:
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Children's Core Collection, 22nd ed.
Children's Core Collection, 23rd ed.
Children's Core Collection, 24th ed.
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Awards:
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Horn Book Guide Titles, Rated 1 - 4
Publishers Weekly Starred Reviews
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Starred Reviews:
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Publishers Weekly
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TIPS Subjects:
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Family Life
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BISAC Subjects: |
JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Multigenerational
JUVENILE FICTION / Holidays & Celebrations / General
JUVENILE FICTION / Humorous Stories
JUVENILE FICTION / Imagination & Play
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LC Subjects:
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Behavior, Fiction
Cousins, Fiction
Family reunions, Fiction
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SEARS Subjects: |
Behavior, Fiction
Cousins, Fiction
Family reunions, Fiction
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Reading Programs: |
Accelerated Reader Level:
4.3
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Points: 0.5
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| Annotations |
| Publisher Annotations | 01/17/2013 |
| It's time for the annual family reunion, and the dozens of cousins are running wild like beasties. Like hungry ogres! They hug fluttering aunts and soft-spoken elders, play in the creek, shimmy up trees, take 'double-dog dares,' and devour 'the sweet juiciness of the world' along with hot dogs and watermelon. |
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| Publishers Weekly | 05/20/2013 |
| Ages 4-8. An annual family reunion brings together a passel of carefree cousins in this joyful pairing of Crum's (Mine!) comically heroic verse with Catrow's (Have Fun, Molly Lou Mellon) equally rollicking pictures. Crum writes in first-person plural, praising the children's muddy, eager romping with language that wouldn't be out of place describing a Viking celebration after a successful season of marauding. "Oh, we are rowdy ogres," she writes. "We roar! We growl!/ We parade out back doors and leap over steps,/ rushing down to the secret grottoes of the creek." Catrow revels in the swampy setting, as wide-eyed, gap-toothed, rubber-limbed kids bound through the reeds and muck, even persuading their grandparents to cool their toes in the green water ("We put our beastie arms around their squishy middles and squeeeeeze"). Crum goes far beyond a simple appreciation of picnic fare to celebrate life itself: "We pile our plates high--a beastie feast--/ pack tight together, and fidget,/ longing to plunge our sharp teeth/ into the sweet juiciness of the world." A triumphant ode to family in all of its messy, quirky glory. (July). 32p. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, c2013. |
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| Journal Reviews |
| Booklist | 09/15/2013 |
| Preschool-Grade 2. "Oh, we are rowdy ogres." When cousins--or "beasties"--get together at the family reunion, it's absolute chaos. Family members arrive, and there are hugs and hellos all around. But there is also mud to roll in and adventures to be had, so the kids are off and running. Moving en masse like a swarm of bugs, the dozens of cousins rule the roost, noisily leaving behind a path of destruction. There's also food, piled high on the picnic table, and watermelon seeds to spit. Crum's high-energy verse captures the pure, unadulterated joy of cousins convened, who can run free and uninhibited, finally dropping like flies at the end of the day. And Catrow sure captures the quirky crew. In his signature style, there are also roly-poly, pinched-cheek grandmas; babies in sagging diapers; and, of course, a dog, thrilled to be along for the ride. It's an exuberant and comfortable time with family, and many kids will relate. A spirited read-aloud for summertime fun, to be paired with Cynthia Rylant's The Relatives Came (1985). Kelley, Ann. 32p. AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, c2013. |
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| Horn Book Guide | 05/01/2014 |
| 3. A large, boisterous family gathers for a reunion. This lyrical, spirited ode, rich with summertime imagery, celebrates the joys of adventures shared by far-flung cousins running in barefoot packs. Catrow's quirky illustrations capture appropriately wild and grungy kids playing in creek waters, feasting on watermelon, and catching fireflies, among other moments that are at once universal and personal. rrw. 32pg. THE HORN BOOK, c2014. |
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| Kirkus Reviews | 06/01/2013 |
| Reminiscent of Cynthia Rylant and Stephen Gammell's Caldecott Honor book, The Relatives Came (1993), Crum and Catrow's collaboration delivers a spirited, loving depiction of extended familial bonds. Jacket art squarely identifies the child cousins, rather than aunts, uncles, grandparents or other grown-ups, as the focus of this story about a joyous family reunion, as a bevy of kids races toward the right side of the cover, inviting readers to follow. Title-page art then brings readers back in time to the car trip to the reunion, but then the copyright and dedication pages mysteriously zoom in on restful hens. The story's beginning explains this artistic deviation as the chickens scatter with the exuberant arrival of carloads of family members and their descent on the homestead. Artistic embellishments such as this and the matter-of-fact inclusion of a multicultural cast of characters enhance the joyful text in which cousins mischievously romp through their time together under the patient and tolerant eyes of the adults who love them so. In this sense, the picture book as a whole (words and art) feels much more akin to Gammell's humorous, energetic art in The Relatives Came than to Rylant's nostalgic, bittersweet, moving text. The result is a seamless, though in comparison, perhaps less complex or powerful, treatment of family. An ebullient celebration of family. (Picture book. 3-6). 32pg. KIRKUS MEDIA LLC, c2013. |
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| School Library Journal | 07/01/2013 |
| PreS-Gr 3. An unnamed child tells of the glorious day with "beastie" cousins at a family reunion, "running with hearts hungry for hugs and tummies hungry for treats." Politeness is thrown to the wind as the cousins make themselves at home, bursting through doors and leaping into the creek, playing wild games, and annoying older siblings. They spit watermelon seeds and grab at fireflies, until they finally sleep wherever they happen to fall in the relative-packed house. Crum's text is energetically lyrical: "We are drummers of song and magicians of laughter./Our hair, spiked with mud,/proclaims us astounding." Catrow's warts-and-all illustration style is especially fitting here; those squint-eyed mugs are just right on cousins shaking their fannies and throwing underwear out of the windows with wild abandon. Author and illustrator together have captured the manic energy of cousins unleashed. Kathleen Kelly MacMillan, Carroll County Public Library, MD. 32p. SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL, c2013. |
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