Armadillo Rodeo

by Jan Brett, Jan Brett (Illustrator), Graeme Malcolm (Narrated by)

Overview

When Bo spots what he thinks is a "rip-roarin', rootin'-tootin', shiny red armadillo," he knows what he has to do. Follow that armadillo! Bo leaves his mother and three brothers behind and takes off for a two-stepping, bronco-bucking adventure. Jan Brett turns her considerable talents toward the Texas countryside in this amusing story of an armadillo on his own.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780399549342
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	04/26/2016
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	32
File size:	135 MB
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Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

With over thirty four million books in print, Jan Brett is one of the nation's foremost author illustrators of children's books. Jan lives in a seacoast town in Massachusetts, close to where she grew up. During the summer her family moves to a home in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts.

As a child, Jan Brett decided to be an illustrator and spent many hours reading and drawing. She says, "I remember the special quiet of rainy days when I felt that I could enter the pages of my beautiful picture books. Now I try to recreate that feeling of believing that the imaginary place I'm drawing really exists. The detail in my work helps to convince me, and I hope others as well, that such places might be real."

As a student at the Boston Museum School, she spent hours in the Museum of Fine Arts. "It was overwhelming to see the room-size landscapes and towering stone sculptures, and then moments later to refocus on delicately embroidered kimonos and ancient porcelain," she says. "I'm delighted and surprised when fragments of these beautiful images come back to me in my painting."

Travel is also a constant inspiration. Together with her husband, Joe Hearne, who is a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Jan visits many different countries where she researches the architecture and costumes that appear in her work. "From cave paintings to Norwegian sleighs, to Japanese gardens, I study the traditions of the many countries I visit and use them as a starting point for my children's books."

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Brett gives her trademark, exquisitely detailed art a Western flair..." (Publishers Weekly, starred review)

Editorial Reviews

Brett's familiar style takes on a southwestern flavor in this tale of an adventuresome armadillo. Bo is looking for excitement, but like all armadillos, he's nearsighted. When Harmony Jean walks by on her way to the rodeo, he mistakes her red cowboy boots for a rootin', tootin' red armadillo. Bo follows his new friend into the Curly H Ranch and has a thrilling time among the bucking horses, charging bulls, and dancing feet, until his mother comes to take him home. The double-page illustrations display Brett's characteristic polish, intricacy, and bright colors. In keeping with the rodeo theme, the pictures are painted as if on buckskin, with lariat borders. Although the story is a bit weak, Brett's zesty illustrations will keep her fans happy.

Leone McDermott

"Brett gives her trademark, exquisitely detailed art a Western flair..." (Publishers Weekly, starred review)

From the Publisher