Little Elliot, Fall Friends (Little Elliot Series #4)

by Mike Curato, Mike Curato (Illustrator)

Overview

It's autumn in the Big City! Little Elliot and Mouse love the hustle and bustle of the city streets. But sometimes it feels like there are too many people, too many noises—just too much! The best friends decide to get out of town for a vacation in the countryside. There, they'll discover the sights and smells of autumn in the country. Everything is more fun when shared with a friend!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781250184597
Publisher:	Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Publication date:	08/29/2017
Series:	Little Elliot Series , #4
Sold by:	Macmillan
Format:	eBook
Pages:	40
File size:	97 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Mike Curato is an illustrator who loves small treasures. He has illustrated many books for children and is the author and illustrator of Little Elliot, Big City; Little Elliot, Big Family; and Little Elliot, Big Fun. You can find him on any given day walking around the city, eating a cupcake (or thinking about it).
Mike Curato has the fortune of possessing a designer’s brain, an illustrator’s heart, and an artist’s vision. You can find him on any given day walking around the city eating a cupcake (or thinking about it). He is the author and illustrator of Little Elliot, Big City.

Editorial Reviews

"Curato’s lush illustrations revel in the calm of rural expanses (“The country is even bigger than the city!” Elliot exclaims), creating a sense of palpable relief as the friends relax." —Publishers Weekly, starred review, on Little Elliot, Fall Friends

"the resulting artwork offers a wondrous presentation of the russets, greens, and golds of trees on rolling hills, very like Grant Wood’s idyllic farm landscape paintings. This charming celebration of friendship (and fall) deepens with each rereading." —Booklist on Little Elliot, Fall Friends

"Making excellent use of light and shadow, the painterly illustrations are sumptuous, dominated by oranges, reds, and golds. Curato brings to life the fall countryside just as effectively as he does the urban setting." —School Library Journal on Little Elliot, Fall Friends

"It’s a gorgeous vision of summer in the city, as well as of small steps with big payoffs." —Publishers Weekly, starred review on Little Elliot, Big Fun

"A bravura celebration of the healing effects of acceptance and friendship." —Booklist, starred review, on Little Elliot, Big Fun

“Young children will easily relate to Elliot's experience of loneliness and his relief at inclusion, both convincingly captured in this elegant tale.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review, on Little Elliot, Big Family

“Curato fleshes out Little Elliot's personality in this installment—there are glimmers of a character with real depth beneath his cutie-pie visage—while continuing to come up with wonderful, Hopperesque images of a bygone New York.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review, on Little Elliot, Big Family

“[Curato is] a terrific emerging talent, with gorgeously rendered images that bring to mind the moodiness of Chris Van Allsburg and the sweetness of William Joyce.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review, on Little Elliot, Big City

“Curato, a debut author and illustrator, tucks several gentle messages into one simple story that's perfect for the age group. . . . Happily, expect to see more of him.” —Booklist, starred review, on Little Elliot, Big City

“A tiny, spotted elephant tackles the challenges of city life. . . . The simple story is told in 17 short sentences that allow Curato's magnificent 1940s-style illustrations to carry the tale.” —School Library Journal on Little Elliot, Big City

From the Publisher

2017-05-24
Little Elliot (a small, white pachyderm with pastel polka dots) and his bestie, Mouse, need a respite from the big city's grating sounds, slightly sickening smells, and frenetic pace. The fourth in Curato's Little Elliot series opens in an unnamed but recognizable New York City (again realized in sepia tones and 1940s fashions) but quickly follows the two companions into the rolling hills of the country. While young readers will enjoy tracking the friends' bucolic autumnal escape (lolling under apple boughs, frolicking in leaf piles, crawling through logs, hiding in pumpkin patches), they might miss the pre-World War II period details of Little Elliot's earlier urban adventures, those grainy snapshots from another era in felted browns. Indeed, all appears golden, barn red, and mossy green in the smooth, digitally colored farmland. When Little Elliot finds himself alone in a cornfield at nightfall, a double-page spread of spreading dusky darkness effectively breaks up the crisp clarity of the sunny country narrative with palpable fear. "He waited and waited, but Mouse never came." Anxiety is banished when the whiff of apple pie tickles Little Elliot's trunk and leads him to the waiting arms of Mouse and new barnyard friends—and a sweet feast! A yummy, happy resolution—perfectly delectable to the preschool crowd. (Picture book. 3-6)

Kirkus Reviews