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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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