Illus. in full color. In the fourth Otto & Uncle Tooth adventure, the seafaring sleuths, along with Otto's spunky cousin Olivia, sneak into Mookey Swamp to retrieve a stolen pearl from the wicked Cobweb Queen and her Eenie Meanies.
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Illus. in full color. In the fourth Otto & Uncle Tooth adventure, the seafaring sleuths, along with Otto's spunky cousin Olivia, sneak into Mookey Swamp to retrieve a stolen pearl from the wicked Cobweb Queen and her Eenie Meanies.
--This text refers to the
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edition.
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Bestselling author Geoffrey Hayes has written and illustrated over forty children's books, including the extremely popular series of early readers Otto and Uncle Tooth, the classic Bear by Himself, the Patrick Bear books, and When the Wind Blew by Caldecott Medal-winning author Margaret Wise Brown. His TOON Book Benny and Penny in the Big No-No won the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Excitement, Adventure - a review of "The Curse of the Cobweb Queen",
This review is from: The Curse of the Cobweb Queen: An Otto & Uncle Tooth Adventure (Step into Reading, Step 3) (Paperback)
If you haven't run across Uncle Tooth books before, you should know that they are fun mysteries geared for younger children (say 4 to 9 y.o.). In this tale, Uncle Tooth, Otto, and Olivia solve the mystery of the purloined pearl. How did it vanish from the train? Where could it have gone?
Answer: Turns out that the pearl is at the lair of the (spooky music here) Cobweb Queen, a villainess that Uncle Tooth has tussled with, and lost to, before! As a reader/primer, I have to say that it is a good challenge for early readers. There is a great deal of dialog and whole pages of text; though I should add the print is still quite large. My own daughter is only six, and we cope with the amount of text by taking turns. Sometimes we alternate pages, and sometimes we take on the roles of the various characters. A sample of the text follows so you can judge for yourselves: They stepped through the castle entrance into a dark hallway. There were things lying on the ground - small, round, dark things. "Eenie Meanies!" whispered Uncle Tooth. Otto shuddered. "You didn't tell me there were going to be monsters," he said. Uncle Tooth poked an Eenie Meanie with his sword. It didn't move. "They are the Cobweb Queen's guards," he explained.... As to the previous reviewers comments that there is boy bashing, I have to laugh because I thought just the opposite. It seemed to me that Otto was rather condescending towards Olivia - just because she was a girl. He says things like: "Are you trying to be a detective or something?" And in fact, when it comes to going to the island, Auntie Hick is portrayed as a wilting flower who can not contemplate such a venture and who must lay down and rest. And when little Olivia shows up at the docks, Otto asks her what she is doing there. When she answers that she wants to go along, Otto answers: "But you'll spoil everything!" But that is okay, because in the end, Olivia saves the day... or at least saves Otto from a dungeon. So my take on the 'bashing' is that this book is making an effort to break down stereotypes, rather than to create them. Four Stars. Good Read-aloud. In general, I think it is an early mystery book that most children would enjoy. In any case, a definite step up from other early readers: this one has excitement and a plot worthy of kids.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Very good book,
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This review is from: The Curse of the Cobweb Queen: An Otto & Uncle Tooth Adventure (Step into Reading, Step 3) (Paperback)
My son loves the story and it is even OK for adults to read over and over and over. Also a good intro reader for my son.
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Cobweb Queen not great,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Curse of the Cobweb Queen: An Otto & Uncle Tooth Adventure (Step into Reading, Step 3) (Paperback)
While my son and I loved the Pirate Ghost tale, we were disapointed when we got this one. The story is fairly openended, leaving you with an empty feeling but what bugged me most was the male bashing and slant that way. Otto's niece Olivia comes to visit and starts right in on him with insults like "You're a detective?" She always wins the arguements, she saves the day and the story is generally slanted toward making her look good and the boys bad. There were also lots of "stupid" and "dumb" references toward other characters in the book- the world has too many harsh words as it is. Not needed in a kid's bedtime story.
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