In this sparkling original folktale, reminiscent of Slue Foot Sue and Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind Crocket, a girl who just can't get clean poses the biggest challenge a bar of soap and a determined mother ever faced. Full color.
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Kindergarten-Grade 3?One dusty summer, a large family gets a visit from the Raggly Scraggly No-Soap No-Scrub Girl. Mother likes clean children, but she's also polite, so she invites the stranger in. The girl proceeds to gobble up most of the food, gets blackberry cobbler dropped on her lap by her raven friend, dances up a swirling dust storm, and falls asleep. When Mother declares "'It's high time we scrubbed this raggly scraggly girl,'" she wakes up and runs in terror: "'I don't take to baths and baths don't take to me!...I'm all of me dirt, and none of me clean.'" But she slips on a piece of lye soap and flips into the tub, then pops out and "...hightailed it out into the darkness." Mother never does get the tub clean after that. Lively language and an engaging, well-paced story make this original tall tale fun. The children, one of whom narrates, all take obvious delight in their guest's antics, and Mother's attempts to control her add to the humor. The watercolor and colored-pencil illustrations are infused with tans and browns, capturing the silliness of the story without overdoing it. The main character always appears to be in motion, with dirt swirling around her. The family's reactions are even funnier as they freeze in mid-bite when they first see the youngster or wildly chase her toward the tub. A fine choice for reading aloud.?Steven Engelfried, West Linn Public Library, OR
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Ages 4^-8. Glorying in kids' love of dirt, disruption, and disorder, this original tall tale combines family fun with outrageous exaggeration. It's one of several recent tall tales--such as Kellogg's Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind Crockett and Anne Isaacs' Swamp Angel (1994)--in which the hero is female. In this case, she's a strange, filthy, hungry child who explodes into a midwestern family home at dinnertime like a dervish from the dust bowl. By the time she leaves, there's food and grease and dust spinning everywhere. The telling is colloquial and warm, and the watercolor-and-colored-pencil illustrations in rich shades of brown and red capture the swirling, smiling chaos of the story and the country summer of joy. Hazel Rochman
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