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Starred Review on July 1, 2017 | Picture Books
PreS-Gr 2—With comic urgency, a boy races on his bicycle to tell his friend Sadie the story of spoiled Little Amy Scott, who declared that her birthday goldfish was BORING and walked across town to unceremoniously throw it off the dock. The boy, Sherman, asks Sadie if she could imagine that poor fish, still in its bag and floating away, bringi...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on August 1, 2017
Not quite a fish story, but one with broad humor in text and illustrations, Stead and Cordell's (Special Delivery, rev. 3/15) latest collaboration invites careful looking and sure laughter. Front-matter pages get the story started with a boy named Sherman pedaling determinedly on his bicycle toward the first page-turn. He's on a mission to tell his friend Sadie about Little Amy Scott, who has just rudely rejected a goldfish as a birthday present and then unceremoniou...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on March 1, 2018
Not quite a fish story, but one with broad humor in text and illustrations, Stead and Cordell's (Special Delivery, rev. 3/15) latest collaboration invites careful looking and sure laughter. Front-matter pages get the story started with a boy named Sherman pedaling determinedly on his bicycle toward the first page-turn. He's on a mission to tell his friend Sadie about Little Amy Scott, who has just rudely rejected a goldfish as a birthday present and then unceremoniou...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
