Bubble Trouble & Other Poems & Stories [Import] [Hardcover]

Margaret/ross Mahy (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 64 pages
• Publisher: PENGUIN PUTNAM * TRADE (1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0241130867
• ISBN-13: 978-0241130865
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,854,274 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Margaret Mahy lives in New Zealand and is internationally acknowledged as one of the most outstanding children's writers today. She is the author of more than two hundred books for children of all ages, two of which have received England's Carnegie Medal and others of which have garnered numerous citations from the American Library Association. She is also the recipient of An Order of New Zealand, the highest honor a citizen can receive. In 2006 she received the Hans Christian Andersen award for her contributions to international children's literature.

Customer Reviews

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is one of those superb, exuberant books that only comes around once in a great while! Horn Book Award Winner 2009, June 27, 2009

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D. Fowler "Dragonfly77" (Vermont) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bubble Trouble (Hardcover)

Mabel was sitting at the table blowing bubbles. The kitty was sitting on the table watching the baby and the baby was watching the kitty. All of a sudden one of those bubbles was a lot of "bubble trouble in a bibble-bobble way." It floated across the table and bobbled her baby brother and "wafted him away!" Oh, my . . . Mabel and the kitty were in hot pursuit of the baby in the bubble and when she called to her mother the alarm was on.

"At the sudden call of trouble, Mother took off at the double,

for the squealing left her reeling, made her terrified and tense,

saw the bubble for a minute, with the baby bobbing in it,

as it bibbled by the letterbox and bobbed across the fence."

As the baby bibble-bobbled over the town people began to panic and joined in the chase. Chrysta and Greville, Tybal and Sybil, Mr. Copple and the Mrs. ("a crabby couple") Mrs. Threeble with her needle were on the run lest the "bubble burst and vanish in the sky." It was a real "flum-a-diddle," and no one knew quite what to do, but then there was rascally Abel with his slingshot. Oh, no! What would happen if he burst the bubble?

This is one of those superb, exuberant books that only comes around once in a great while. It is an all-around pleaser that both children and adults will marvel over it. The art work meshes perfectly and captures the excitement of the chase. Much of the text swirls up and down following the bibble-bobble path the baby is taking. If you are an expressive reader, your young audience will be rapt with excitement when you read this story in rhyme! This is the Boston Globe Horn Book Award Winner for 2009.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars are bubbles really trouble?, June 15, 2009

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Melissa Sack (georgia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bubble Trouble (Hardcover)

Mabel is busy blowing bubbles on day and it turns into a big problem. the bubble that she has blown is HUGE and it surounds her baby brother and carries him away into the air! As the wind blows poor Baby floats throuh the town. The town people have to work together to try and save the baby.

The book is very cute. It is a challenge to read aloud due to all the rhyme words, sort of a tounge twister. The book can be used in story time and in the classroom. After reading the kids can try their hand and making their own bubble solution and seeing who can blow the biggest bubble.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars wonderful rhythm & rhymes, November 9, 2009

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SMC - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bubble Trouble (Hardcover)

This book is irresistible -- you can't help reading it aloud, over and over. It has a fabulous rhythm to it, especially with rhymes embedded throughout the sentences (not just at the ends). Plus Margaret Mahy's usual sense of mischief. We found it at the library but will be buying a copy.