Handy Bob needs to keep on his toes at the lively Lakeside School gym. He swings his mop and swabs with pride and flings soapy suds aside. This lovable school custodian is soon at his wits' end, however, as bustling students trek dirt, grime, grit, and slime across his freshly mopped floor. But help is afoot! Without missing a beat, the children help clear the mess.
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From Publishers Weekly
School custodian Handy Bob fights a losing battle for a sparkling gym floor in this lackluster rhyming story. Bob takes his job seriously to an obsessive degree: "I search for bits of grit and grime,/ specks of mud and drops of slime." He spends the whole book clutching his head while children walk to class, play sports and paint pictures, traipsing through the gym: "Holding hands, they walk in twos./ I bend down low to count their shoes./ Even though their feet are small,/ they leave their footprints, one and all." Miraculously, when the marching band, the last to leave, finally exits, all the dirt sticks to their shoes and gets tracked out (huh?). Daniels's first picture book overextends an iffy joke. Foster's cartoon illustrations feature exaggerated perspectivesAHandy Bob resembles Clutch Cargo, with his big, jutting chin, bulging biceps and broad shoulders, and the students, all with oversized heads, seem quite gleeful about messing up the floor. Spot laminations and laminated spreads don't enhance the limited visual humor. (May)
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From School Library Journal
PreSchool-Grade 2In a rhyming monologue, Handy Bob, the janitor at Lakeside School, tells readers why it is so difficult to keep the gym floor clean. If the kindergartners arent tracking across it with their little footprints, the first-grade Brownies are dropping sticky crumbs from their cookie sale. The soccer team leaves behind bits of tattered grass, and the ballet dancers swirl them all over. The art class arrives, and then the marching band. Poor Handy Bob is genuinely distressed, until he sees that Joy of joys! My lucky day!/The children marched the mess away! The floor is clean except for one purple spot expertly mopped by the smiling man who takes great pride in his job. The last page shows Handy Bob exiting the gym, blissfully oblivious to the footprints he has left on the floor. Children will enjoy this industrious janitor who sports a large key ring on his belt, wears his sleeves rolled up, and has a dimple in his chin. The watercolor cartoons are bright and colorful and filled with Handy Bobs friendly facial expressions. Good clean fun.Jackie Hechtkopf, University of Maryland, College Park
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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If the shoe fits' wear it!,
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This review is from: The Feet in the Gym (Hardcover)
Excellent grade school picture book. Younger children will love the colorful illustrations and the lyrical rhyming language. Older children will appreciate the creative vocabulary and the mess the "Feet" get into. Mrs. Daniel's gets us to care about the delightful character of Handy Bob. Children will identify with all the fun activities that take place in an elementary school.I look forward to Teri Daniel's next book.
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feet in the gym,
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This review is from: The Feet in the Gym (Paperback)
this book was a good and funny book. I realy liked this book.
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Rhonda Dotson from EKU Library Science,
By Rhonda Dotson (Lancaster, KY) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Feet in the Gym (Hardcover)
This is a rhyming story about handy Bob, a janitor at Lakeside school. He has to constantly mop or "swab" the floor in the gym in order to clean after the children and their activities. He gets at his wits end when his clean-ups are short lived. The school band comes to the rescue and helps Bob to solve the problem. Teri Daniels' use of rhyming every two lines gives an upbeat rhythm to this humorous story. The brightly colored illustrations by Travis Foster contribute to the setting and plot of the story to allow the reader to become a part of Bob's world. My three year old, Brandon and myself really liked this story. We have read it several times. I think it will be read and enjoyed by many children over and over again!
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