Knot Cannot
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
A pun-packed look at friendship, jealousy, and being yourself
Knot is a piece of rope who longs to do the same things as Snake. Snake can slither and swim and hiss. Sadly, Knot cannot! But when Snake finds herself in a pickle, Knot discovers there's one thing he can do that Snake cannot. Knot can knot--a lot!
With wordplay a-plenty, this uproarious read-a-loud encourages readers to find--and celebrate!--whatever it is they do best.
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Knot, a googly-eyed, looped piece of bright orange rope "aches to be like Snake," a bright green reptile who can slither, hiss, and shed her skin to look "brand-new." But when Snake is threatened by a sharp-beaked bird, Knot realizes he knows something Snake doesn't: how to tie her into a big, wide knot so the predator can't swallow her. The day is saved (gratitude is expressed as a forked-tongue lick), and Snake is eagerly schooled on how to turn herself into other knots, including a timber hitch and a stevedore. The text is peppered with word-play that morphs from a stern "Can Knot do this? Knot cannot" to "He's a frayed knot." Goofy, diagrammatic cartooning plays along, with lots of comically emphatic hand-drawn annotations and commentary ("TOO WIDE HA HA!" reads a key note that leads up to the rescue). In the talented, sublimely silly hands of Stone (Tallulah Plays the Tuba) and Lowery (the Kid Spy series), the question "What do I have to offer the world?" seems far less knotty. 4 8.
