Wolfie and Fly
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3.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $8.99
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
A classic story of imagination, friendship, adventure and speeding through the ocean in a cardboard box. For fans of Ivy & Bean, Judy Moody or Nate the Great.
Wolfie and Fly is an early chapter book at its simplest and best. Our heroine, Renata Wolfman (Wolfie) does everything by herself. Friends just get in the way, and she only has time for facts and reading. But friendship finds her in the form of Livingston Flott (Fly), the slightly weird and wordy boy from next door. Before she knows it, Wolfie is motoring through deep water with Fly as her second in command in a submarine made from a cardboard box.
Out on a solo swim to retrieve a baseball vital to the mission, Wolfie is finally by herself again, but for the first time, she finds it a little lonely. Maybe there is something to this friend thing...
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Renata Wolfman (aka Wolfie), a proud loner fascinated with undersea life, begrudgingly makes her first friend in neighbor Livingston Flott (aka Fly), an exuberant singer-songwriter who isn't exactly swimming in pals himself. The two bond over a refrigerator-box submarine Wolfie has built, which she insists "is for educational purposes, not make-believe." Fagan (Danny, Who Fell in a Hole) has lots of fun with the comedic contrast between Wolfie's misanthropic tendencies and Fly's enthusiasm, especially after the submarine seems to actually take to the seas ("Maybe you should take it easy on our oxygen supply," Wolfie quips after the ocean's beauty inspires Fly to reach for his guitar). Newcomer Si makes the most of the everyday-meets-fantastical setup in her b&w spot cartoons. It's a promising first outing for this memorable odd couple. Ages 7 10.
