Rhyme Crime
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
From the creator of Splat! comes more playful, irreverent, kid-empowering fun--with a rhyming twist.
In this buoyant rhyming romp, words have gone mysteriously missing: Who stole Marlow's happy smile, and replaced it with a crocodile? Who swiped Dingle's sneeze--aaaaachooo!--and left a stinky cheese? The thief took Tumble's orange, and switched it with a . . . with a . . . Hey, does anything rhyme with orange? No? Aha! Could this be the rhyming robber's undoing? Guided by bright, clever artwork, kids are empowered to put the final clues together for themselves to solve this silly rhyme crime, then guess at the name-nabber's next sneaky move. Splendid, satisfying, inspiring.
"Rhyming wordplay. . . [and] even more hysterical laughter." --Kirkus
"The creator of Splat! offers more page-turn-based tomfoolery" --Booklist
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
As he did in Splat!, Burgerman takes a wacky premise and dashes with it with panache. The rhyming ruckus gets rolling when, "Once upon a time, a thief committed a crime./ Everything he stole was replaced with a rhyme." Initially pictured only as a spindly hand in silhouette reaching into vividly colored pages, the villain targets a gaggle of cockeyed characters, first replacing Hammy's brand-new hat with a cat (revealed by a flip of the page). Burgerman ratchets up the visual absurdity in subsequent page turns, as Gumpop's head becomes a slice of bread, Moomoo's fancy clogs are exchanged for a pair of frogs, Dingle's sneeze morphs into a wedge of stinky cheese, and a crocodile appears on Marlow's face in place of his smile. The author playfully derails the rhyming guessing game when the bandit attempts to swap out an orange for ? The culprit's futile efforts to find a rhyming replacement produce a string of fun-to-say nonsense words, which likely will inspire kids to chime in with their own variations. Another spontaneous, wryly subversive offering from Burgerman. Ages 3 5.)
