Gracie Meets a Ghost

by Keiko Sena

Overview

Gracie hasn’t been able to see very well recently, so she decides to get some glasses. But, after playing on the mountain one day, she realizes that night that her glasses are missing. She heads straight out to look for them on the mountain–where a bored ghost is hiding in the darkness, waiting for someone to scare. Although Ghost tries to scare her, Gracie doesn't react by being frightened, not even little–because she can't see Ghost well enough to be scared without her glasses! Ghost really wants to see Gracie scared, so he helps in her search all night long and finally finds her glasses. But what happens when Gracie puts them on...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781940842134
Publisher:	Museyon
Publication date:	10/01/2016
Series:	A Gracie Wears Glasses Book
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	302,040
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 9.50(h) x 0.50(d)
Lexile:	AD410L (what's this?)
Age Range:	3 - 5 Years

About the Author

Keiko Sena was born in Tokyo, Japan, and studied under the well-known printmaker and children's book artist Takeo Takei. She is an illustrator of children’s books as well as in book design and the creation of kamishibai picture-panel stories. She is a member of the Japan Children’s Book Artists Society and received the Sankei Children’s Book Award for her four-volume Iya da iya da no ehon (I Won’t Do It!) series. Her other titles include the An an no ehon (Wah! Wah!) and Okiku naritai (I Want to Grow Up) series, and many more.

Editorial Reviews

"Her indelible good cheer is appealing, and her Mr. Magoo-like mistakes are gently amusing. Sena's textured collage illustrations employ torn paper to evoke Gracie's fur; the simplicity of the compositions gears the book to younger readers." —Vicky Smith, Kirkus Reviews


"This is the cutest book." —Jo Ann Hakola, bkfaerie.blogspot.com


"For kids going through the adjustment of getting used to glasses, the humor in this book will help to ease the transition. Even young readers who don't wear glasses will have fun with the mistaken identity and the frustrated ghost." —Suzanne Costner, fveslibrary.blogspot.com


"This well-illustrated and simple story will delight younger readers who enjoy knowing more than the main character. I can already imagine young children at storytime shouting out 'GRACIE, IT WAS A GHOST ALL ALONG!!!'" —jesstorytime.blogspot.com


"This is a cute ghost story that is nonthreatening. It is a story that would be great to read with a child who needs to wear glasses, as the book brings up some great talking points around this. The illustrations are playful and sweet." —book-chatter.com


"With a lovely selection of matte hues the book's descriptive and clear illustrations are capable of telling the story on its own. And the text effortlessly get the kids involved in the storytelling, 'What is that? / Is that a balloon? / Is it a sheet flapping in the wind?'" —picksandreadsforkids.com


"Every year new children’s Halloween picture books get published. This year (2016) there are not as many standouts as in previous years. But there are a few . . ." —Melissa Taylor, imaginationsoup.net

From the Publisher

10/01/2016
PreS-Gr 2—Gracie the bunny and her friends spend the day in the mountains, picking flowers, dancing around, and generally having fun. That night, when she goes to bed, "she trie[s] to take off her glasses. Oops! She realize[s] that she [isn't] wearing them!" Naturally, Gracie ventures out into the night to find her specs. However, on her way, she encounters several things in the dark that resemble her glasses, yet she is still unable to locate them. A ghost, with frightful intentions, sets out to scare Gracie but ends up joining the search for her glasses. This offbeat tale incorporates silly circumstances to create an amusing read-aloud. The illustrations are done in colorful collage materials on modest backgrounds. Sena's use of shapes helps make facial expressions recognizable for young readers. VERDICT A recommended purchase for libraries looking for lighthearted ghost stories.—Briana Moore, Elmont Memorial Library, NY

School Library Journal

Aug. 30, 2016
A bespectacled bunny loses her glasses in this Japanese import, the first of a series about the character to be translated into English.Gracie is a white bunny who needs glasses. Even though her friends tease her, she’s proud of them. One day, however, while playing on the mountain, she loses them—which she doesn’t realize until bedtime. She makes her way up the darkened path to retrieve them, mistaking the glowing eyes of an owl for the lenses and the curly tail of the mouse for an earpiece before going on. When a ghost (depicted as a very un-scary, large, white teardrop shape) tries to scare her, she doesn’t recognize him as a ghost. Hoping he’ll scare her with her glasses on, he searches all night for them for her, only to disappear as soon as he finds them, as the sun comes up right then; Gracie is never the wiser. Readers with eyes like Gracie’s will be mystified that she did not notice when her glasses fell off and that she thinks she can possibly find them on her own in the dark. Her indelible good cheer, however, is appealing, and her Mr. Magoo–like mistakes are gently amusing. Sena’s textured collage illustrations employ torn paper to evoke Gracie’s fur; the simplicity of the compositions gears the book to younger readers. Gracie’s a sweet little bunny; here’s hoping her next visit has a bit more internal logic. (Picture book. 3-5)

Kirkus Review