Bob and Tom
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
From the critically acclaimed author of The Perfect Pumpkin Pie and Snail and Slug comes a sweet picture book about two very bored turkeys who are trying to figure out what to do with their day.
Throughout the day, starting at 7:45 a.m., two bumbling turkeys are very bored. What should they do today? Well, as they decide, they go through a whole day filled with adventure! Will that be enough to satisfy these two turkeys?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Cazet is no stranger to offbeat friendship stories, as readers of his Minnie and Moo books or his recent Snail and Slug know. In a deadpan, dialogue-driven story that stretches from morning till night, he introduces farm turkeys Bob and Tom, who may lack smarts but are well-matched pals all the same. Time stamps guide readers through the day: there's a morning rain shower at 6:45 ("It's wet," Tom notes. "It's the water," Bob replies), the turkeys attempt to acquire "suits that swim" in order to safely enter the pond in the afternoon, and they fret over losing their names later in the day. "Who am I talking to?" worries Bob. "Without a name I can't see the who in you!" (They eventually pick new names, which happen to be their old ones.) There's no shortage of physical comedy in Cazet's scribbly textured, mixed-media images: in one, Bob peers at Sam through a magnifying glass, attempting to discern whether there's anything inside his head, and a metal detector proves ineffective as they try to find their lost names. What a pair of turkeys. Ages 4 8.
