Lizzie and Lou Seal

by Patricia Keeler

Overview

What will Lizzie do when Lou Seal loses his puff?

Lizzie loves her flip-flops. They go shuffle shuffle across the rug, smack smack on the floor tiles, and thwap thwap down the stairs. Lizzie also loves her blow-up toy, Lou Seal. Lizzie and Lou Seal are off to the beach, but beach fun turns to beach disaster when Lizzie loses her flip-flops and Lou Seal starts losing air! It’s a sink or swim scenario. What will Lizzie do?

This is a beautiful book with mixed media art and a lovely retro feel, for fans of Ladybug Girl at the Beach. Children will relate to Lizzie’s independence and creative problem solving and fall in love with Lou Seal themselves. Filled with lots of fun words and sounds, this is a perfect read aloud book for parents and children alike.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781510706309
Publisher:	Sky Pony
Publication date:	04/04/2017
Pages:	40
Product dimensions:	10.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	3 - 6 Years

About the Author

Patricia Keeler’s books include Car Wash, Drumbeat in Our Feet, and A Huge Hog Is a Big Pig. She lives across the Hudson River from the Empire State building with her husband and author, Francis McCall. On sunny days, she visits a beach to stick her feet in the sand.

Editorial Reviews

2017-02-14
Lizzie's companion is a big, blue inflatable seal named Lou.The water toy is bigger than the impish, little white girl, but Lizzie manages to carry and drag Lou Seal out of the family's beach trailer down to the shore. There's one problem: the seal has lost its "puff." Lizzie never noticed that the animal has been pierced by a sharp piece of wood. She was busy pulling her polka-dot flip-flop, named Dottie One, off a wad of gum stuck to the boardwalk. As Lizzie pulls Lou Seal along, other items puncture her exterior: "Purple shells! Seaglass! Starfish!" When Lizzie is ready to swim, the toy looks deflated, but the resilient girl knows what to do. She drags the toy back to the trailer, discovers holes, patches them with stickers, and blows Lou Seal up. Since she has lost Dottie Two in the sea, she finds her flippers and carries the seal back to the waves, proudly showing off their matching accessories. Lizzie's independence is refreshing, but some readers will note the absence of an adult supervising swimming in such heavy surf. Mixed-media pictures are at their most exciting when painterly waves crash against the shore, and onomatopoeic words in display type ("step thwack" when Lizzie has only one flip-flop, and "scooch scooch scooch" as Lou Seal travels through the sand) add to the fun in reading aloud. An amusing if slight addition to beach reading. (Picture book. 3-6)

Kirkus Reviews