Lucky
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
From the creator of Marshall Armstrong Is New to Our School comes a visually stunning, hilarious picture book that explores children’s tendency to jump to the conclusions they want.
When Leo’s mom announces that there will be a surprise at dinner, she unknowingly sets in motion a riotous chain of events. What could the surprise be?! Leo and his brother are desperate to find out. Could it be a bike? A pool? A new car? Their imaginations run wild until they latch, with utter conviction, onto what surely must be the answer: an all-expenses-paid, two-week trip to Hawaii! Perhaps not surprisingly, the brothers are soon proven wrong. But the ingenious way their family decides to cheer them up poignantly reminds us that, sometimes, embracing what you already have is enough to make you feel “lucky.”
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Mom announces there'll be a surprise at dinner, and the narrator and his brother, Leo, eventually decide it can mean only one thing: their family has won a trip to "Hawaii for two weeks: all expenses paid!" The brothers set the school grapevine buzzing and even inspire the principal to give everyone 10 minutes of free time because "this is the first time in history that anyone from our school has ever won a vacation." Then Mom enthusiastically reveals, as only mothers can, that the big surprise is... takeout pizza. Crushed and embarrassed, the narrator slowly realizes that he's in a pretty lucky family after all a revelation handled with the subtlety and sweetness that's become Mackintosh's signature. As befits a story about magical thinking, Mackintosh (Standing in for Lincoln Green) amplifies his sketchbook-style drawings with a visually extravagant m lange of comic book framings, exaggerated typography that sometimes tips a hat to concrete poetry, and collage (which includes kitschy Hawaiiana to accompany Leo's rhapsodic tribute to island life). It's a story that leaves its readers feeling fortunate as well. Ages 4 8.
