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Meet Jumpy Jack, a very nervous snail who is afraid of monsters, and Googily who is a very good friend indeed. Wherever they go, Googily kindly checks high and low just to make sure there are no scary monsters about. But, as every child knows, monsters come in many shapes and sizes. Some are even blue with hairy eyebrows and pointy teeth.
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Meg Rosoff is the celebrated author of How I Live Now, winner of the Guardian Fiction Award. Her second book Just in Case won the Carnegie Medal.
Sophie Blackall has illustrated several books, including Ruby's Wish, for which she was awarded the Ezra Jack Keats Award, among other honours. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I bought this for my 3 year old daughter who is always trying to reassure herself that "there are no monsters..." before bed. It has a brilliant running joke that developes and becomes more obvious as you go. (I'll not spoil it for you!) Some repetition which small children love and older new readers enjoy being able to "read".
Wonderful illustrations, a great story. We buy or library-borrow a LOT of books for our two children (3 and 6) and this will rank among the best of them. I don't tend to tell people what they should read to their children but I cannot help but reccommend this lovely book. Both text and illustrations just make me smile. Brilliant.
Wonderful illustrations, a great story. We buy or library-borrow a LOT of books for our two children (3 and 6) and this will rank among the best of them. I don't tend to tell people what they should read to their children but I cannot help but reccommend this lovely book. Both text and illustrations just make me smile. Brilliant.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Jumpy Jack & Googily has that quality of timelessness - it feels like one of those books you loved as a child, even though it's new. It has the kind of deranged playfulness that small children love, and there's enough in there to stop parents getting bored. (I may be a bit dense, but I didn't get the central joke until the third time of reading it to my daughter.) The illustrations are beautifully weird.
Also strongly recommend the much less sweet Meet Wild Boars by the same team.
Also strongly recommend the much less sweet Meet Wild Boars by the same team.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Fun Look at What We Find Scary
19 Jun 2008
Format:Hardcover
I got this book after falling in love with Rosoff & Blackall's collaboration, "Meet Wild Boars." While "Jumpy Jack & Googlily" are slightly less enthusiastically received by my 2-two, we both like this book quite a lot.
I love finding the clues in the text and illustrations that prove what my son and I are already suspecting -- that Googily is indeed a monster. It's smart, a bit of a puzzle, and it keeps the reader and listener actively engaged -- which helps make repeat readings interesting.
This is the first "monster" book I've read with my son. I was a bit worried that it might create some monster-angst, much as I remember "Where the Wild Things Are" doing for me, but it hasn't. In fact, it presents monsters in a very unscary light.
While I doubt my two-year old is consciously pondering the philosophy of "the Other," this book successfully shares a story of a snail who is afraid of what (he thinks) he does not know. In the end we learn that a single sock may actually be much, much more frightening than a big, bug-eyed, blue, bushy-eyebrowed, two-fingered, thin-footed, bowler-hat-and-shorts wearing, monster - depending on the perspective through which we view the world.
I love finding the clues in the text and illustrations that prove what my son and I are already suspecting -- that Googily is indeed a monster. It's smart, a bit of a puzzle, and it keeps the reader and listener actively engaged -- which helps make repeat readings interesting.
This is the first "monster" book I've read with my son. I was a bit worried that it might create some monster-angst, much as I remember "Where the Wild Things Are" doing for me, but it hasn't. In fact, it presents monsters in a very unscary light.
While I doubt my two-year old is consciously pondering the philosophy of "the Other," this book successfully shares a story of a snail who is afraid of what (he thinks) he does not know. In the end we learn that a single sock may actually be much, much more frightening than a big, bug-eyed, blue, bushy-eyebrowed, two-fingered, thin-footed, bowler-hat-and-shorts wearing, monster - depending on the perspective through which we view the world.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
A big hit
18 Jun 2009
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
My son who just turned six found this so hilarious I had to read it every night this week! Great book.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Cute story.
14 Feb 2009
Format:Hardcover
My 4 yr. old son chose this book at the library and loved it so much that we decided to buy it for him. It's still a favorite and he likes it because it makes monsters a little less scary.
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