The Goody
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- 29,00 kr
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- 29,00 kr
Publisher Description
Chirton Krauss is a good child - the very goodest. He does everything he is told, when he is told. He even does good things without being told. He eats his broccoli, he goes to bed on time and he never, ever sticks his finger up his nose.
Meanwhile, Chirton's sister, Myrtle, is NOT a good child. She stays up late, she never cleans out the rabbit's hutch and she drops her choco puffs all over the carpet!
But what will happen when Chirton Krauss decides that being THE GOODY isn't so good after all?
A charmingly funny story about the importance of kindness, and allowing children the freedom to be themselves. From Lauren Child, multi-award-winning creator of Charlie and Lola and Waterstone's Children's Laureate 2017-2019.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Chirton Krauss has a strong sense of responsibility and self-discipline: he always eats his broccoli ("every single stalk"), always uses soap when washing his hands, and always goes to bed right on time. His sister Myrtle, meanwhile, is known to be so incapable of behaving that she isn't invited to birthday parties anymore. Their brown-skinned parents praise Chirton as "The Goody" (even giving him a badge with that title), decide that Myrtle "isn't a Goody," and accept the status quo. But Chirton begins to realize that maybe Myrtle is on to something: she skips her turn cleaning out the pet rabbit's cage because she knows he'll do it, and she gets to stay up late because the babysitter can't deal with disciplining her. "Now... does that sound fair to you?" Child (the Charlie and Lola series) asks, in one of the many times she breaks the fourth wall. The resolution isn't neat and tidy, and neither are Child's images, which take her elaborately patterned collaging to a new level in a book that raises provocative and profound questions about expectations, fairness, morality, and pigeonholing. Ages 4–8.
