Lines, Signs, and Porcupines (Happy County Series #3)

by Ethan Long

Overview

Ethan Long's Cars, Signs, and Porcupines is the third book in the Happy County preschool picture book series featuring cars, trucks, signs, counting, and maps.

Rise and shine for another bustling day in Happy County! The roads are filled with people in vehicles traveling through town. There are cars, trucks, buses, bicycles, and lots of signs to decipher on the road. This primer compendium is chock-full of lovable characters and educational content connected to maps, geography, signage, counting, measurements, and, underground systems, and transportation vehicles—plenty of clever scenarios to keep little ones engaged. Interactive, informative, and on point for the PreK–2 audience.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781250765987
Publisher:	Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Publication date:	03/02/2021
Series:	Happy County Series , #3
Pages:	48
Sales rank:	948,095
Product dimensions:	10.00(w) x 12.10(h) x 0.50(d)
Lexile:	AD540L (what's this?)
Age Range:	3 - 6 Years

About the Author

Ethan Long is the acclaimed author and illustrator of many books for children, including Hello, World!, Sun and Moon Together, and ars, Signs, and Porcupines, Books 1, 2, and 3 in the Happy County series, as well as Tickle the Duck, Fright Club, Valensteins, Fangsgiving, Chamelia and Up, Tall and High!, for which he received the Geisel Award. He is the illustrator of Dump Truck’s Colors and Cement Mixer’s ABC, two board books in the bestselling Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site series. He is also the creator of the animated, Emmy-nominated series Tasty Time with ZeFronk. Ethan lives with his family in Orlando, Florida.

Editorial Reviews

A Junior Library Guild Selection

"Distinctly Richard-Scarry. . .Colorful cartoon art guarantees that young eyeballs will stay enthused. There’s never a dull moment in Happy County, and that’s just the way kids like it." —Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2020-12-25
Porcupines on the run lead to some seriously prickly problems.

Beloved characters return in this, the third in Long’s Happy County series, after Hello, World! (2020) and Sun and Moon Together (2020). When the local water tower springs a leak, Pauly and Polly’s Porcupine Playground floods, causing the frolicking little porcupines to scatter. Now it’s up to the County Mounties to save the day by rounding them up amid much alliteration. Trouble is, they have no idea how to entice porcupines back into the fold. Nothing appears to lure them back (not even Parmesan pimento parfait) until Miss Beverly, the bookmobile librarian, arrives at a prickly pear solution. Supplementing this action are both silly scenes and informative sections (an introduction to “Types of Signs” covers regulatory, guide, and warning signs, for instance) that give the book a distinctly Richard Scarry–esque vibe. Long appears to be steering away from the information-rich text of Sun and Moon Together, however, preferring to unabashedly embrace the series’ silliness and sight gags. Even gags for adults sneak their way in, like the Buckstars coffee-chain ad featuring an antlered mascot and the You Knighted airplane that’s full of folks in armor. Colorful cartoon art guarantees that young eyeballs will stay enthused. (This book was reviewed digitally with 12-by-20-inch double-page spreads viewed at 28.4% of actual size.)

There’s never a dull moment in Happy County, and that’s just the way kids like it. (Picture book. 4-7)

Kirkus Reviews