The Nuts: Keep Rolling!

by Eric Litwin, Scott Magoon (Illustrator)

Overview

Hazel Nut and Wally Nut's playtime roll down a muddy hill turns into a hilarious chase when they get covered in so much muck that they get bigger... and bigger... until they're big as ELEPHANTS! Can anyone help get the Nuts back down to size? Eric Litwin offers an upbeat and inspiring message: What do you do when you roll into trouble? Keep rolling!
In the third book of the Nuts series, Eric Litwin's playful call-and-response rhymes and Scott Magoon's hilarious illustrations invite readers young and old to join in on the fun. Readers can go to The NutFamily.com to learn the Keep Rolling song and dance along with Eric!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780316436571
Publisher:	Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Publication date:	04/18/2017
Series:	The Nuts , #3
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
File size:	43 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Eric Litwin is the New York Times bestselling author of the beloved Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes, Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons, Pete the Cat: Rocking in my School Shoes, and Pete the Cat Saves Christmas. He is also a children's educator, performer and co-founder of The Learning Groove, which creates materials and training for early music and movement education. His website is EricLitwin.com.

Editorial Reviews

"Poor Hazel and Wally. They are tired of being tiny. But how can they get bigger quickly? By rolling in the mud, of course! They launch themselves down a mucky hill, and with each revolution a new layer of mud sticks to them, creating a larger and larger shell. A song accompanies the prescribed action: "KEEP ROLLING. / KEEP ROLLING. / KEEP ROLLING." (It's easy to imagine listeners getting into the action here.)... With repetitive refrains and plenty of mud, it's hard to go wrong."—Kirkus Reviews

Praise for Bedtime at the Nut House

​"[A] perfect storytime read... children will ask for it again and again." - School Library Journal

"Magoon's (Spoon) digital illustrations create a boisterous world for the Nut family to inhabit (their home features a ball pit and an observatory.... Pete the Cat author Litwin leans heavily on nut-related puns (while Wally and Hazel pretend to be astronauts, an off-stage voice announces, "Houston, we have a praline!" as Hazel plants a flag for the "Unutted States")... as it makes its way to a reassuring bedtime conclusion." - Publishers Weekly

From the Publisher

2017-02-14
Litwin's Nut family is back (The Nuts, 2015), this time lamenting their diminutive size.Poor Hazel and Wally. They are tired of being tiny. But how can they get bigger quickly? By rolling in the mud, of course! They launch themselves down a mucky hill, and with each revolution a new layer of mud sticks to them, creating a larger and larger shell. A song accompanies the prescribed action: "KEEP ROLLING. / KEEP ROLLING. / KEEP ROLLING." (It's easy to imagine listeners getting into the action here.) They roll until they are the size of cats. Magoon's digital muck glops on thick, with strategically placed twigs and leaves to represent whiskers and eyes. But, "Oh, No!" A pack of dogs comes over the hill. Wally and Hazel had better…"KEEP ROLLING. / KEEP ROLLING. / KEEP ROLLING." When the two nuts are the size of dogs, they fear the (white) dogcatcher. Then they are the size of elephants, but a (brown-skinned) zookeeper joins the chase. Luckily, in a solution similar to a certain cat with colored shoes, water saves the day. The two nuts roll home. With repetitive refrains and plenty of mud, it's hard to go wrong—but the message is a bit murky. (Picture book. 3-6)

Kirkus Reviews