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A review by amdame1
Bye-bye, Crib by Alison McGhee, Ross MacDonald
3.0
CIP: A big boy and his best stuffed friend seek the courage to move to a gigantic new bed.
Review: Great story-line about a little boy who is *almost* ready to move out of his crib and into his big-boy bed. Any toddler/preschooler and their parents will appreciate the theme. However, the illustrations are detrimental to the overall effect. They attempt to look like an old-fashioned cartoon, but some of the pages are just creepy, especially one where the big bed is depicted as a monster.
Kirkus says: "MacDonald's retro-style illustrations and colors are a breath of fresh air"
SLJ says: "the comic-book conventions, visual wit, and pulp-art palette fans know and love, and the animation in both the text and the pictures turns what might have been a ho-hum tale of trepidation into a proactive adventure with a winsome wee hero"
Review: Great story-line about a little boy who is *almost* ready to move out of his crib and into his big-boy bed. Any toddler/preschooler and their parents will appreciate the theme. However, the illustrations are detrimental to the overall effect. They attempt to look like an old-fashioned cartoon, but some of the pages are just creepy, especially one where the big bed is depicted as a monster.
Kirkus says: "MacDonald's retro-style illustrations and colors are a breath of fresh air"
SLJ says: "the comic-book conventions, visual wit, and pulp-art palette fans know and love, and the animation in both the text and the pictures turns what might have been a ho-hum tale of trepidation into a proactive adventure with a winsome wee hero"