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| The Pain and the Great One first appeared in a 1985 picture book. In this chapter book, they get a fuller treatment that's just right for the audience. First-grader Jake is the Pain, the annoying thorn in the side of the Great One (third-grader Abigail). The short, funny chapters point up the push-pull relationship between the siblings, but sometimes they focus on only one of the characters: Abigail can't ride a bike and worries about it throughout one story; Jake has fun playing with his aunt's visiting dog, despite the canine's serious doggy breath. A more tender side to the relationship comes out in a story in which they both appear. Jake is suddenly afraid of haircuts, so Abigail cuts cardboard covers to protect his ears, even as she denies it's to help him. As one would expect from Blume, the book provides plenty of family-familiar fun, and Stevenson's signature ink artwork boosts the tale with amusing pictures that pull the reader along. Cooper, Ilene |
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| Judy Blume demonstrates once again that you don't need witches, fairies, dragons or princesses to create irresistible children's literature that will keep kids, as well as their parents, hungrily turning pages for more. Soupy Saturdays revisits eight-year-old Abigail and six-year-old Jake, two of my favorite Blume characters from her 1985 book The Pain and The Great One, and takes them through a series of daily-life tasks, such as getting haircuts, washing the dog, riding bikes and having sleepovers. But Abigail and Jake turn every seemingly banal event into a lesson-learning adventure: Jake's scared the barber will get too close to his ears with his scissors and cut them off, and Jake doesn't see any problem with using human shampoo on dogs. Meanwhile, Abigail is embarrassed to admit why she's scared to ride bikes, and she's angry at Jake for being home during her much-anticipated sleepover with her girlfriends. Although Abigail and Jake annoy each other at every turn, whether they know it or not, they actually help each other overcome the other's fears and grow closer in the process. They love each other like only siblings can, and any child reading this who has a brother or sister will easily relate to these characters' bouts of resentment, jealousy, and the constant worry that their parents love the other sibling more. The writing itself is perfect for the intended four-to-nine year old target audience--quick and easy to understand but totally hilarious and very vivid. And although nearly every page abounds with delightful illustrations (courtesy of James Stevenson), the physical format of the book is more like a bona fide chapter book than a picture book, which will give younger readers an enormous sense of accomplishment upon finishing it. I loved Soupy Saturdays and can't wait for the rest of the books in the series! |
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