The World According to Musk Ox

by Erin Cabatingan, Matthew Myers (Illustrator)

Overview

From Africa to North America, Asia to the Arctic—our dynamic, hilarious duo are back and ready to travel around the world. Join a rowdy musk ox and a cantankerous zebra on the adventure of a lifetime—a tour through the seven continents!

Erin Cabatingan and Matthew Myers team up again in this wild and crazy adventure around the world.
A Neal Porter Book

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781466880870
Publisher:	Roaring Brook Press
Publication date:	09/30/2014
Series:	Musk Ox Series , #3
Sold by:	Macmillan
Format:	eBook
Pages:	40
File size:	78 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	5 - 7 Years

About the Author

After a twenty-year career as an award-winning art director, Matthew Myers discovered his true vocation—illustrating picture books. His works for Roaring Brook Press include Tyrannosaurus Dad and A Is for Musk Ox. He lives and works in North Carolina.

Erin Cabatingan grew up in Utah. She and her family have lived all over the United States from California to New York to Hawaii and she looks forward to wherever life takes her next. Currently, she lives with her husband and children in Virginia. The World According to Musk Ox is her third book for Roaring Brook Press.

Editorial Reviews

This latest Musk Ox adventure makes a humorous addition to picture-book shelves.” —Booklist

“The wisecracking musk ox and buttoned-up zebra take off to travel the world . . . Myers' paintings are visually bold, truly funny and richly colored.” —Kirkus Reviews

“'Hysterical Facts' sign boards, corny jokes, and goofy cartoon illustrations provide a host of opportunities for repeat readings . . . Older fans of the bickering duo, including adults, will welcome their return.” —School Library Journal

From the Publisher

2014-07-16
The wisecracking musk ox and buttoned-up zebra take off to travel the world. These pals (last seen in Musk Ox Counts, 2013) have a half-fond, half-irritated, very entertaining relationship. When the zebra finds their globe shattered and his companion utterly ignorant of geography, he whisks them off on a tour of continents, lecturing all the way—while the musk ox quips. Some of the humor is genuinely rib-tickling, in particular their banter. Also funny are the musk ox bestride a camel, penguins toppling hilariously in Antarctic wind gusts, and various "Hysterical Marker" signs with attitude ("In 1911, the South Pole was discovered by 5 men and 16 dogs. Guess who took the credit?"). Other jokes fall flat, such as the musk ox's pickup-artist lines: Zebra introduces some animals "called gnus," and musk ox says, "Well, I just want to call them. Hello, ladies! Is it hot out here or is it me?" Jazzy information (Antarctica's a desert!) tussles with artistic license (Bactrian camels erroneously show up in Africa). The portrayals of the continents employ a lazy reductiveness: Africa's all nature and animals, while Europe has the Eiffel Tower—and humans. Target-age readers are too young to unpack this problematic implication. Myers' paintings are visually bold, truly funny and richly colored. Great art and (some) fabulous humor, but the geographical implications requiring correction make this a difficult choice. (Picture book. 5-8)

Kirkus Reviews