Arlene Sardine

by Chris Raschka

Overview

Widely acclaimed for his innovative books about jazz greats Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker, author/illustrator Chris Raschka now pays tribute to an unsung heroine, a fish named Arlene, who has aspirations of becoming a part of a can of sardines.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781453296080
Publisher:	Open Road Media Young Readers
Publication date:	03/19/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	40
File size:	28 MB
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Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

Editorial Reviews

. .. Raschka is the author and illustrator of many wonderful children's stories. . . .Unfortuantely, with Arlene Sardine he has missed his mark, whatever it may have been. --The New York Times Book Review

Margaret Moorman

Raschka (Simple Gifts) has a way of continually reinventing the picture-book form; here, in his signature splashy watercolors and brash calligraphy, he tells the story of how Arlene, a little fish who wants to be a sardine, achieves her career goal. Along the way, readers learn how brislings are caught, killed, pickled, and canned; they also discover the different ways sardines are laid out in their containers. These facts are presented in an insouciant rhythm fully invested with Arlene's fishy personality: "A little fish/packed in oil,/in a can,/is a/sardine./Arlene/was a sardine./A sardine/is what Arlene/was." The book's jacket, not incidentally, is painted to look like, read as, and "open" like the tin lid of a sardine can; the entire book bristles with nonchalance, but makes its points with panache.

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