Grandpa's overalls
Record details
- ISBN: 0531333213 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0531303217 (alk. paper)
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Physical Description:
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 x 27 cm.
print - Publisher: New York : Orchard Books, c2001.
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | When Grandpa's overalls run off, his family and neighbors try to catch them and then pitch in to do the work that Grandpa cannot do without his pants. |
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Subject: | Clothing and dress Fiction Grandfathers Fiction Farm life Fiction Dogs Fiction |
Available copies
- 7 of 7 copies available at Bibliomation.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 7 total copies.
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Beacon Falls Public Library | E CRU (Text) | 3312000010993B | Picture Book | Available | - |
Black Rock Branch - Bridgeport | jj CRUNK (Text) | 34000072937931 | Juvenile Picture Book | Available | - |
Booth & Dimock Library - Coventry | JE CRU (Text) | 33260000389412 | Juvenile Easy | Available | - |
Burroughs-Saden Main - Bridgeport | jj CRUNK (Text) | 34000072937998 | Juvenile Picture Book | Available | - |
Burroughs-Saden Main - Bridgeport | jj CRUNK (Text) | 34000074827783 | Juvenile Picture Book | Available | - |
Chester Public Library | JE CRU (Text) | 33210000116570 | Easy Fiction | Available | - |
Silas Bronson Library - Waterbury | s jpcrunk, t. c. 1 (Text) | 34005089967391 | Storage | Available | - |
BookList Review
Grandpa's Overall
Booklist
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Ages 3-6. Daffy and delicious is this tale of doggy farmfolk and a pair of overalls with a mind of their own. Grandma sees it: Grandpa's overalls hopping off their nail and sneaking out the back door. Grandpa can't work in just his drawers (and fine, red longjohns they are, too), so he, Grandma, and the kids chase the overalls. Soon neighbors, relatives, and the preacher join them, because a man can't work without his overalls. But the overalls, wearing a manic grin, leap into the clouds and out of sight. The neighbors pitch in, milking the cow, getting the hay, while Grandpa sits in the smokehouse, reading a book. What should happen but the overalls appear and cadge Grandma's nightgown into sneaking away. "A body can't sleep without her . . . . nightie," exclaims Grandma, and the whole passel of folk, under a bright and smiling moon, chase the errant garments into the last frame. Nash's googly-eyed dogs and jujube colors are just right for the silly, sweet, slightly surreal text. Story-hour fun! GraceAnne A. DeCandido
Kirkus Review
Grandpa's Overall
Kirkus Reviews
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Here's the strange and wonderful tale of an exasperating pair of overalls from the author of Big Mama (2000). Grandma wakes one morning to the sight of Grandpa's overalls skedaddling out the door. Without, that is, Grandpa inside of them. The house is roused, and this being a family of dogs, they are happy to take chase. Plus, Grandpa doesn't want to have to work in his underwear-or, as he delicately puts it, his "long-handled drawers." The rascally overalls lead a gathering swarm of family and neighbors on a wild romp-over hill, down dale, through the hen house-until they finally decide to take flight up and out of sight into the blue yonder. That puts an end to the chase, but not the camaraderie of the proceedings, as all and sundry help take care of Grandpa's plowing, milking, and digging-spud chores while Grandpa hides out in the smokehouse. And that is what this little item is all about-good-neighborliness and pitching-in-brought home to readers by a pair of willful overalls, a most outlandish and gratifying vehicle (which returns at book's end to make off with Grandma's nightie). Nash's (Pet of a Pet, not reviewed, etc.) clean, old-school illustrations work just right with the story, making the overall buttons look like eyes and the straps become arms. Move over, Gingerbread Boy. (Picture book. 4-7)
The Horn Book Review
Grandpa's Overall
The Horn Book
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Grandpa's overalls get a mind of their own and hightail it out the kitchen door. Grandma raises such a ruckus that she wakes the whole farmhouse, and soon everyone--including the neighbors--is chasing the overalls, because, as Grandpa puts it, A man can't work in nothin' but his long-handled drawers. Nash's watercolor illustrations are full of motion and enhance the playful text. From HORN BOOK Fall 2001, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
School Library Journal Review
Grandpa's Overall
School Library Journal
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PreS-Gr 3-Grandpa's overalls have a mind of their own. Early one morning, they "hop down off their nail on the kitchen wall, slip out the door, and sneak away across the back porch." Grandpa laments, "a man can't work in nothin' but his long-handled drawers." Just like the gingerbread boy, the frisky overalls lead everyone in the family and the neighborhood on a good old-fashioned wild-goose chase. After they disappear from sight, everyone (except for Grandpa) chips in to do the chores. Just when things appear to have simmered down, Grandma sees her nightgown "slipping through the kitchen door and sneaking away across the yard" and once again everyone takes off in hot pursuit. Crunk's folksy text begs to be read aloud. Nash's wacky watercolors are populated by dogs of all sorts (and some other critters that defy classification). In fact, the overalls themselves look positively devilish as they run wild in the chicken coop and ride piggyback across the fields. Young readers will gladly join "Grandma, Grandpa, me, and the rest of us-chasing along behind!"-Bina Williams, Bridgeport Public Library, CT (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publishers Weekly Review
Grandpa's Overall
Publishers Weekly
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In this ebullient tall tale, work clothes take a holiday and let their owner do the same. One morning, Grandpa's denims come alive, with their two top buttons as eyes, their undone suspenders as arms and the bottoms of their stumpy legs like elephant feet. When they "hop down off their nail on the kitchen wall... and sneak away across the back porch," a Gingerbread Man-style chase ensues. Their chest pocket forming a broad smile, the agile overalls bound across a lettuce patch and hide behind a hay bale. Grandpa, clad only in red long johns, shakes his fists and protests that "a man can't work in nothin' but his long-handled drawers." At last, he modestly sits in the smokehouse while his cheerful neighbors do his plowing and weeding. Nash (Over the Moon) styles the farmers as crotchety dogs and smiling puppies. He uses a supple line to draw the galloping overalls, which perform balletic leaps and juggle potatoes like a vaudevillian. Set in a font that resembles handwriting, Crunk's (Big Mama) limber sentences are equally light-footed, his dialogue pitch perfect and twangy (Grandpa, who's "about ready to pop a stitch," yells, "Come back here, you rapscallions!"). Crunk and Nash maintain a zippy momentum as they follow the footloose drawers which end up eloping with Grandma's "long-tailed nightie." Ages 4-7. (June) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved