Bruno & Lulu's Playground Adventures
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
For newly independent reader fans of ELEPHANT & PIGGIE, here’s a book featuring two best friends who love to have fun at the playground. Bruno likes straight-forward adventure while Lulu uses her over-the-top imagination to play. In two short, funny episodes, readers discover why Bruno and Lulu's different personalities help them become even better friends. With simple vocabulary and sentence structure, and told solely through speech bubbles, these adventures are just right for new readers.
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Lakin (the Max & Mo series) and Edmunds (The Monster Who Lost His Mean) introduce two energetic friends: Bruno (a squirrel) loves "going too fast, swinging too high," while Lulu (a chipmunk who looks like a squirrel) prefers "to pretend, pretend, pretend." Reminiscent of the format of Mo Willems's Elephant & Piggie series, the text in this early reader consists of color-coded speech bubbles, letting the dialogue drive the action. In the first of two stories, Lulu and Bruno make pretend cupcakes in the sandbox after a group of cats refuse to share their real ones; in the second, Lulu tries to enliven her time-out on a playground bench with a guessing game, though literal-minded Bruno doesn't make it easy. Edmunds's digital cartooning capably brings these boisterous, wide-eyed friends to life, and she gives Bruno and Lulu a full, appealing world to play around in. The streamlined vocabulary, simple sentences, and word repetition are on-target for beginners, although genuine laughs are somewhat rare, and the friends' back-and-forth miscommunications become repetitive. Ages 5 7.
