The Great Grrrrr

by Marie-Sabine Roger, Marjolaine Leray (Illustrator), Angus Yuen-Killick (Translator)

Overview

Meet an impatient monster with serious anger management issues!

The Great Grrrrr works for an express delivery service. A monster on a mission, he must deliver a package to a cottage in the country. But, when the recipient isn't home, he becomes increasingly frustrated and then angry. Just when he has destroyed the cottage out of an explosive bout of rage, the homeowner shows up and everything changes. The Great Grrrrr learns to  manage his anger issues and finds patience and perhaps a new perspective on life. This hilariously entertaining book takes frustration and impatience to a ridiculous extreme and finds humor in uncontrolled emotions no toddler will fail to recognize. Expressively illustrated by Marjolaine Leray in sketchy crayon drawings with bright neon second color to accent the visual drama. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781636550565
Publisher:	Red Comet Press
Publication date:	09/19/2023
Pages:	36
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 11.25(h) x 0.38(d)
Lexile:	AD550L (what's this?)
Age Range:	3 - 6 Years

About the Author

Angus Yuen-Killick is the founder and publisher of Red Comet Press. He has lived in Rome Italy, and translates some of the titles from European publishers for the Red Comet list. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Editorial Reviews

"This French import is, by all accounts, born for storytimes. . . . just delightful, right down to its endpapers."–Betsy Bird, Fuse #8/School Library Journal

"Ever have the cover art of a picture book immediately draw you in? That happened to me when I received this book just yesterday. And after reading it, I knew I had to share it with you all right away.

Where this story really shines is with its illustrations. Drawn in sketchy crayon with shades of gray against neon pink, the drawings exude tons of emotion and add so much to the drama that builds throughout the book. It’s an excellent story that finds a little humor in taking uncontrollable frustrations and impatience to the extreme."–Kidlit is Magic

"Hard pencil lines portray a monstrous interpretation of impatience in the two-tone illustrations of this picture book. . . The dark lines of the Great Grrrrr contrast with soft shades of pink on the grandmother and her cottage in the expressive illustrations".–Foreword Reviews

From the Publisher

2023-07-13
A determined and short-fused monster unites a package with its recipient.

The Great Grrrrr, a black creature with a head of spikes, hairy ears, and expressive cartoon eyes, drives a delivery truck. He makes several attempts to deliver a small gift, but each time he rings the doorbell of a quiet rural cottage, he gets no response—even after scratching and tapping. It starts to rain, and frustration builds and bubbles into destructive anger until finally the Great Grrrrr crushes the home to pieces. But it turns out that the 99-year-old grandma who owns the home is simply out on an errand, and when she returns, she teaches him a lesson in patience. The spare, black-and-white illustrations, rendered in childlike scrawls, are punctuated with pops of pink for objects such as the cottage, the package, and the grandma’s poncho. With few colors and minimal text, there’s little in this French import to hold kids’ attention on rereads, and the house is nearly always slightly off the page, which may confuse some readers. Adults may dislike the fact that the Great Grrrrr never actually apologizes for destroying the house—though he does make amends by rebuilding it. The grandmother has skin the white of the page. (This book was reviewed digitally.)

Gets into the neighborhood of interesting but doesn’t deliver. (Picture book. 3-6)

Kirkus Reviews