Green Lizards vs. Red Rectangles
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- $10.99
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Publisher Description
The green lizards and the red rectangles are at war. Can there ever be a way to live peacefully together?Green Lizards vs. Red Rectangles is an exciting new picture book from Steve Antony, the bestselling author and illustrator of Please, Mr. Panda!The Green Lizards wanted to defeat the Red Rectangles.The Red Rectangles wanted to defeat the Green Lizards.They were at war!Eventually they realized,Enough Is Enough!They stopped fighting, and by working together the Green Lizards and the Red Rectangles found a way to live peacefully.Who will win, the green lizards or the red rectangles? Young readers will understand the value of living in friendship and peace. In the end, it's not about who wins but rather working together and having fun!
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In the spirit of Dr. Seuss's The Butter Battle Book, Antony (The Queen's Hat) stages an absurdist face-off between an army of small, pea-green lizards and an opposing force of crisp, red rectangles of every shape and size. It's an unlikely, even nonsensical matchup (almost animal vs. mineral), and that's a large part of the book's strength this is not a war that ends with a realization along the lines of "hey, we're the same underneath it all." The combat reveals that both sides have their strengths: "the red rectangles were smart" (they attempt to encircle the lizards in a fencelike prison), while "the green lizards were strong" (they overwhelm the rectangles with their sheer, swarming numbers). Mid-battle, one lizard shouts, "What are we fighting for?" though his question goes unanswered after he is unceremoniously squashed. Luckily, the exhausted combatants find a way to coexist by book's end, as the rectangles transform themselves into an urban dwelling for the lizards a solution that acknowledges and celebrates difference, rather than trying to ignore or gloss over it. Ages 3 5.
