How Do You Say I Love You, Dewey Dew?

by Leslie Staub, Jeff Mack (Illustrator)

Overview

This story featuring alien Dewey Dew is perfect to share with elementary kids, especially on Valentine's Day!

Dewey is starting to love life on Earth, and he'd be happy to tell everyone, but there's just one problem: he can't pronounce the word love. This makes things difficult, especially when a classmate teases him. With the help of his understanding classmates and his teacher, Dewey finally succeeds in declaring his love for Earth and his friends.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781629794976
Publisher:	Astra Publishing House
Publication date:	10/31/2017
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	9.38(w) x 11.38(h) x 0.36(d)
Lexile:	AD690L (what's this?)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Leslie Staub is the author of Time for (Earth) School, Dewey Dew and Everybody Gets the Blues. She is also the author and illustrator of Bless This House, and has illustrated Live: Poems About Famous Americans and Whoever You Are. She lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Jeff Mack is the illustrator of multiple picture books, including Time for (Earth) School, Dewey Dew; Bunnicula and Friends; and Hurry! Hurry! He has also written and illustrated many picture books, chapter books, and early readers, including Clueless McGee, Good News, Bad News, and the Hippo and Rabbit series. He lives in Easthampton, Massachusetts. Visit jeffmack.com.

Editorial Reviews

"Mack's pencil, watercolor, and digital illustrations work in tandem with Staub's marvelously inventive language to ensure readers understand Dewey's Eighty-N words. And the characters' facial expressions and posture speak volumes all on their own. A powerful message about the support of friends and defusing a bully wrapped in a sweet Valentine tale." — Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2017-08-02
While Dewey Dew is adjusting well to life on Earth, he still has trouble with a few things, mostly the pronunciation of the word "love" and the bully at school. The first one can be a problem, especially in the month of February, when "wuhbuh" is on everyone's mind. His mother tries to help him, but Dewey's frustration rises to tantrum levels. Her soothing reassurance, "Shee shoo-shoo tanna-wattoo," sounds "like honey and birds' wings and safety and singing," and it's easy for Dewey Dew to say. But that doesn't help when faced with Brutus Auralias' taunting "Wubbah Boy." "Dewey's urdle tightened. His eyeball squeezed. Blue-black smoke rose dangerously from his hork." Just in time his loyal friends save the day, twice in fact. But the teasing leaves Dewey Dew fantasizing about leaving Earth behind…until he devises a solution that encapsulates the sentiment behind Valentine's Day: he teaches his class to say "I love you" in his language. And they have just as much trouble with it as he has with the word "love." His effort brings the whole class together, even Brutus. Mack's pencil, watercolor, and digital illustrations work in tandem with Staub's marvelously inventive language to ensure readers understand Dewey's Eighty-N words. And the characters' facial expressions and posture speak volumes all on their own. A powerful message about the support of friends and defusing a bully wrapped in a sweet Valentine tale. (Picture book. 4-8)

Kirkus Reviews