Gilly's Monster Trap
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- $16.99
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
A young girl and her goldfish sidekick set out to trap a monster and instead wind up making a new friend in this debut picture book that’s perfect for fans of How to Catch a Monster and Jules vs. the Ocean.
Gilly loves to flap her flippers in Lighthouse Bay…until a mysterious monster starts menacing the market! It swipes Gilly’s flippers, snatches fish, and nabs nets. So Gilly hatches a plan: she is going to catch the sneaky, rotten monster! With the help of her goldfish, Finnegan, and the townspeople, she builds a trap.
But when things go awry, Gilly discovers she and the monster may have been after the same thing all along—a friend.
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Wearing big orange flippers and a striped swimsuit, her brown hair spilling out of a flowered swim cap, water-loving Gilly, who reads as white, spends her days paddling with pet fish Finnegan in Lighthouse Bay, amid the snow-capped peaks that surround it. But something's afoot in this idyllic setting: a thief first steals from the local marketplace, where the community is portrayed with various skin tones, then swipes Gilly's flippers right off her feet. Fears of a sea monster force the closing of the girl's beloved beach, but Gilly stands pat: her dot eyes and expressive eyebrows exuding determination, she leads the adults in setting a trap, only to discover—after stumbling into the snare herself—that the culprit is a friendly walrus. Forgiven and dubbed Ringo, it becomes a full-fledged member of the Lighthouse Bay paddlers. Rendered in sprightly watercolor and ink cartoons, Marko's action-packed picture book debut features a panoply of compositional styles, lively language (Gilly "scanned the horizon for horns and spikes. She inspected the waves for teeth and claws"), and a protagonist that is the very definition of mettle. Walrus facts conclude. Ages 4–8.
