Bob and Tom

by Denys Cazet, Denys Cazet (Illustrator)

Overview

From the critically acclaimed author of The Perfect Pumpkin Pie and Snail and Slug comes a sweet picture book about two very bored turkeys who are trying to figure out what to do with their day.

Throughout the day, starting at 7:45 a.m., two bumbling turkeys are very bored. What should they do today? Well, as they decide, they go through a whole day filled with adventure! Will that be enough to satisfy these two turkeys?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781481461405
Publisher:	Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books
Publication date:	07/25/2017
Pages:	40
Product dimensions:	8.60(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Denys Cazet is the author and illustrator of more than forty books for children. Among these are such favorites as Never Spit on Your Shoes, I’m Not Sleepy, and fourteen titles in the Minnie and Moo series for beginning readers. He lives with his wife and sons in Pope Valley, California.

Denys Cazet is the author and illustrator of more than forty books for children. Among these are such favorites as Never Spit on Your Shoes, I’m Not Sleepy, and fourteen titles in the Minnie and Moo series for beginning readers. He lives with his wife and sons in Pope Valley, California.

Editorial Reviews

2017-05-01
A couple of turkeys do a whole lot of nothing on the farm. Bob and Tom are both tom turkeys, and they're good friends. They're also…not the sharpest tools in the shed, so to speak. In a sequence of time-stamped episodes, the turkeys get soaked in the rain (" ‘It's wet,' Tom noticed. ‘It's the water,' Bob explained"), ponder the contents of their heads, conspire to swipe "a suit that swims" from the clothesline so they can take a dip in the pond, and convince themselves that they've lost their names. These absurd little episodes are illustrated with detailed mixed-media pictures that depict the friends as plump, bumbling turkeys (who, oddly, seem to have navels) amid other farm animals and people going about their days in the background. Certain scenes seem a bit overworked, with characters blending in a bit too much with the saturated setting, but the humor will help engage readers. Some of the humor is so understated it may take a while to sink in, as when Tom explains to a cow that their names are "small" and have "a round thing in the middle…like a doughnut." "What kind of doughnut?" the cow asks. Children will ask their caregivers why they are snickering and be thus ushered into the world of Cazet's dry wit. Agreeably silly stuff in the classic noodlehead vein. (Picture book. 4-6)

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