Book
Gargantua (Jr!) : defender of Earth / Kevin Sylvester.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781773061825
- Physical Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 25 cm
- Publisher: Toronto : Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2019.
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| Subject: | Mother and child > Juvenile fiction. Monsters > Juvenile fiction. |
Available copies
- 8 of 9 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Elkford Public Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 9 total copies.
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elkford Public Library | E SYL (Text) | 35170000438036 | Easy Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2019 January #2
A little kaiju yearns to join its mom in saving Earth and other good deeds. It seems the narrator's mom at one time was "a littleâ¦wild" ("Where did you even find that?" she exclaims, rolling her eyes at a collection of clippings with headlines like "GARGANTUA STRIKES AGAIN"). But now she helps out by resetting knocked-over buildings, tickling rampaging space robots into acquiescence, and blasting the occasional giant asteroid before it hits with her fiery atomic breath. "I want to grow up to be just like my mom," proclaims the cute little narratorâwho chafes at being allowed to cheer her exploits only from a distance. The diminutive lizard-monster therefore determinedly sets out to prove that it's not a baby any more. Fortunately, Mom comes through in the clutch. After saving her overly ambitious mite from being smooshed beneath the condemned skyscraper it manages to knock down, instead of meting out punishment she cannily suggests that maybe they should work toge ther from then on. "And that's just what we do," the dinky dino concludes, adding a pint-sized blast to its mom's roaring exhalation. Only carping critics will complain that Sylvester models his round-headed narrator and its smiling, much bigger single parent more on Godzilla and Godzilla Jr. than the Gargantua of film in his cartoon pictures. They are missing out on terrific fun. Parenting skills come in handy even for immense, green, fire-breathing monsters. (Picture book. 5-7) Copyright Kirkus 2019 Kirkus/BPI Communications. All rights reserved. - SLJ Express Reviews : SLJ Express Reviews
Copyright 2019 SLJExpress.PreS-Gr 1 -Gargantua Jr. desperately wants to be able to do the things Mom does. The little monster wants to knock down buildings and defend Earth from aliens and asteroids, just like Mom. Fed up with always being left behind, Junior takes the plunge into demolition, trying to fire-breathe a building to the ground. Just when the structure is about to topple upon its tiny attacker, Mom comes to the rescue. Sylvester's bright pencil, pen, and ink cartoon images, as well as his text and the inclusion of pages that are images only, allow for plenty of talking points and back-and-forth between adult and child readers of this book. The story is one that children eager to do big-kid things will relate to, and the reassurance that Mom's always there lends a comforting tone.VERDICT One to pair with Anna Dewdney's Llama Llama Red Pajama for library storytimes and bedtime snuggles.-Henrietta Verma, Credo Reference, New York, NY
