Stuck (Read aloud by Terence Stamp)
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4.4 • 11 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
This is a read-along edition with audio synced to the text, performed by Terence Stamp.
Delightful chaos ensues when a young boy gets his kite stuck up a tree in this laugh-out-loud new picture book from award-winning, internationally best-selling author-illustrator Oliver Jeffers! Narrated by Terence Stamp.
Floyd gets his kite stuck up a tree. He throws up his shoe to shift it, but that gets stuck too. So he throws up his other shoe and that gets stuck, along with… a ladder, a pot of paint, the kitchen sink, an orang-utan and a whale, amongst other things!
Will Floyd ever get his kite back?
A hilarious book with a wonderful surprise ending.
Reviews
"Stuck is perhaps the most impressive picture book published this year… Brilliantly silly." Daily Telegraph
Praise for The Incredible Book Eating Boy:
‘Mouth-wateringly irresistible’ The Guardian
‘This is a book that children will devour’ The Observer
Praise for Lost and Found:
‘A heart-warming story’ The Guardian
Praise for How to Catch a Star:
‘The best recent picture book by light years, is stylishly spellbinding.’ Telegraph
‘Hail to new talent… If only all picture books could be this good.’ The Bookseller
Praise for The Heart and the Bottle:
‘Profoundly moving’ The Irish Times
About the author
Oliver Jeffers graduated from The University of Ulster in 2001 with First Class honours. His outstanding talent has been recognised by several high-profile awards, including the Nestlé Children’s Book Prize Gold Award. ‘Lost and Found’ animation was broadcast on Channel 4. Oliver lives and works in Brookyln, New York.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In an exuberantly absurd tale that recalls the old woman who swallowed a fly, a boy named Floyd goes to ridiculous lengths to remove his kite from a tree. Floyd tosses his sneakers, then his cat, into the leafy branches, and when they get stuck, too, he fetches a ladder. "He was going to sort this out once and for all... and up he threw it. I'm sure you can guess what happened." Each spread pictures Floyd pitching another item into the tree and growing increasingly frustrated: a bike, a kitchen sink, the milkman, a fire truck, and "a curious whale, in the wrong place at the wrong time... and they all got stuck." Jeffers (The Incredible Book Eating Boy) pictures the extravagant accumulation in abstract pencil-and-gouache doodles, with hand-lettered text to set a conversational tone. The tall, narrow format reinforces the tree's height in comparison to small, stick-figure Floyd. Jeffers's droll resolution the kite comes down, although afterward Floyd "could have sworn there was something he was forgetting" is testament to the boy's single-mindedness and the chaos he leaves in his wake. Ages 3 5.
