Thingamabob
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
What is a thingamabob? A thingamabob can be anything . . . and so can you! A sweet, empowering picture book about self-discovery from the acclaimed author-illustrator of Petra.
In the beginning, the universe was one great big thing. Then that thing exploded into gobs and gobs of thingamabobs.
All of the thingamabobs had a purpose . . . all except for one small, shapeless thingamabob. No one knew what it was for. It wasn't this or that. It wasn't here or there. What's the use of this thingamabob?
But everything changes for Thingamabob when it makes a friend in the park. And Thingamabob realizes that if you aren't one thing . . . you can be everything!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Coppo (Ray) chooses a challenging protagonist to bring to life: an orange blob, the only indeterminate bit left after everything else in the cosmos is created. "In the beginning, the universe was one great big thing," she begins, showing a large orange mass, and then a moment in which the stuff explodes "into gobs and gobs of thingamabobs," forming objects such as whales and Rubik's cubes and DNA and a marble—all except for a leftover thingamabob, which becomes an object of pity ("You poor thing" "What is it?" "No idea!"). Thingamabob proves unsuited to everything it tries. It can't be ice cream, a hat, or a kite (the other kites soar, but Thingamabob lies flat on the ground). Fortunately, Thingamabob soon encounters a pale-skinned child, to whom it can be both useful and a good friend. Coppo succeeds in guiding readers into the titular character's interiority, making it possible to relate its failures to their own and resulting in a piquant and poignant adventure. Ages 3–7.
