Bub
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
A little monster, caught in the middle of a boisterous monster family, tries to find a way to be seen in this whimsically sweet and quirky picture book from the author of Henny and Peddles.
For Bub, it’s not easy being the middle child in his little monster family—especially such a noisy and busy one: Maw and Paw can be very loud, his big sister Bernice is good at everything, and everyone has to pay attention to The Baby. No one has time for Bub. But the day comes when Bub decides to take charge, and suddenly things change in a very magical little monster way! What happens next keeps his family guessing, until Bub sees that it might not be so bad being in the middle, after all.
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Quiet children sometimes disappear in noisy households, and Stanton (Peddles) notices. Bob a sea green, single-fanged monster in roomy blue overalls is stuck with an unwanted nickname. He "didn't close the top of his O" on the first day of school, and now everybody calls him Bub. His parents are cheerful but loud. Older sister Bernice, whose dress is studded with red bows, taunts him ("Then she called him bubbly brain and said it would take him until forever to get his homework done"). And the Baby calls him Blub. Bob/Bub doesn't run away, exactly, but he begins to drift around his home invisibly, like a ghost. A heartfelt exchange of letters follows ("I want you to 1. Stop shouting," he writes). Stanton recognizes that families need a reset every once in a while, and that introverts in particular may need extra reminders that they're loved. Her pencil and watercolor drawings, colored in the softest pastel shades, convey gentle, manageable tension, and her chatty narrative voice is grounded in the realities of family life. Ages 4 8.
