The Great Art Caper (Pets on the Loose! Series)

by Victoria Jamieson, Victoria Jamieson (Illustrator)

Overview

Pets on the Loose! returns with The Great Art Caper by bestselling children's book author and illustrator Victoria Jamieson

Things at Daisy P. Flugelhorn Elementary School have been quiet—too quiet. Cuddly yet calculating class hamster GW spends his days in second grade and his nights poetry slamming and jigsaw puzzling with his friends, Sunflower and Barry. GW has even started warming up to the second-grade students. Could he be making human friends?

When the school art show is announced, GW learns of a dastardly plot—Harriet and her many minions are planning to ruin it! Once again, it's up to GW, Sunflower, and Barry to stop to Harriet's mousey madness.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781627791199
Publisher:	Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Publication date:	06/13/2017
Series:	Pets on the Loose! Series
Pages:	64
Sales rank:	521,413
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range:	6 - 10 Years

About the Author

Victoria Jamieson is the author and illustrator of several books for children, including the New York Times bestseller and Newbery Honor winner Roller Girl. She worked as a children's book designer before moving to Portland and becoming a freelance illustrator. She has also worked as a portrait artist aboard a cruise ship and has lived in Australia, Italy, and Canada.

Editorial Reviews

"This gentle graphic adventure's warm and inviting illustrations portray snuggleworthy characters resembling stuffed toys brought to life. The animated and adorable menagerie displays a pleasing blend of silliness and good-natured naughtiness, imparting a kind message of friendship without a hint of saccharinity . . . . This shines bright." —Kirkus Reviews

Praise for The Great Pet Escape:

"Told with a wickedly sharp sense of humor, Jamieson’s latest delivers a madcap adventure that is sure to please young readers." —Booklist, starred review

"Guaranteed fun." —Kirkus Reviews

"The pace and humor of this graphic novel hit the ground running (or scurrying) and never relent." —The Bulletin

From the Publisher

★ 2017-05-01
Cuddly classroom pets must stop a group of rapacious rodents from ruining the elementary art show in this sequel to The Great Pet Escape (2016). In the second-grade classroom of Daisy P. Flugelhorn Elementary lives George Washington, a lovably plump tawny-and-white hamster. GW spends his days palling around with the other class pets, Sunflower the guinea pig and Barry the bunny, and also with his best friend, a pigtailed, white-skinned second-grader named Carina. When Carina's picture is chosen for the art show as the only second-grade submission, GW is thrilled. But the mischievous mouse Harriet and her murine minions have other plans for the art show, plotting to steal Carina's picture and having GW's gang sent away to St. Bart's Obedience School for Unruly Pets. Can GW and his friends work together to outsmart Harriet before she wrecks the show? This gentle graphic adventure's warm and inviting illustrations portray snuggleworthy characters resembling stuffed toys brought to life. The animated and adorable menagerie displays a pleasing blend of silliness and good-natured naughtiness, imparting a kind message of friendship without a hint of saccharinity. A sweet surprise ending with equal emphasis on humans and animals sets this apart from many critter tales. Though there's a plethora of choices in the rodent canon, this shines bright. (Graphic fantasy. 5-9)

Kirkus Reviews