(author’s note) (Picture book.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:10:57 Boxid IA118307 Boxid_2 CH103101 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donor After turning tornadoes into much-needed rain clouds, Rose rides away, “that mighty, mighty song pressing on the bull’s-eye that was set at the center of her heart.” Throughout, she shows a reflective bent that gives her more dimension than most tall-tale heroes: a doff of the Stetson to her and her creators. Though she carries a twisted iron rod as dark as her skin and ropes clouds with fencing wire, Rose overcomes her greatest challenge-a pair of rampaging twisters-not with strength, but with a lullaby her parents sang.
Decked out in full cowboy gear and oozing self-confidence from every pore, Rose cuts a diminutive, but heroic figure in Nelson’s big, broad Western scenes. Shortly after being born one stormy night, Rose thanks her parents, picks a name, and gathers lightning into a ball-all of which is only a harbinger of feats to come. Nolen and Nelson offer a smaller, but no less gifted counterpart to Big Jabe (2000) in this new tall tale. This isn’t anything like a blatant grab for Captain Underpants fans, oh no. Large cartoons take up more space than the text, and Benton adds a mix-’n’-match feature that requires cutting several pages into flaps that can be flipped back and forth. Franny uses cold cuts from her classmates’ sandwiches to create a Frankenstein-ish ally, and thus becomes a hero by Being Herself. After taking systematic notes on peer behavior, Franny boils up an effective sweetness-and-light potion in her home lab-but then has to take the antidote when a Giant Monstrous Fiend rises from the garbage can and climbs the school’s flagpole with the teacher under one claw. Whether it’s her mad-scientist glare, her preference for gourmet lunches, or her love of bats, Franny has trouble making friends, until her teacher suggests that she approach it as another science experiment. An anything-but-subtle tale about learning to get along with others, infused with bathroom humor and featuring a pint-sized Morticia Addams as main character.
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