Daly, Niki Next
Stop-Zanzibar Road? Clarion Book, 2012. $16.99 PICTURE BOOK
Content: G.
Mama Jumbo is
an elephant in Africa she has a hard time getting her hat to fit on right, but
decides that she needs to get a mirror at the market. She leaves her child (a chicken) with the babysitter (a
lion) and goes to market. She
lucks out when she trades some people at the market and gets a mirror. On the return trip home the taxi gets a
flat and she uses her gum to patch the flat tire, and her trunk to put air into
it. When she returns home to
Little Chico her chicken they eat dinner.
When she looks into the mirror she is disappointed in what she sees of
herself, but Little Chico tells her she is a beautiful Mama and they both go to
bed happy.
This book is broken up
into five chapters which indicates it’s for beginner readers. Mama Jumbo is not a very endearing
character and the story line seems obvious and drawn out. This wasn’t my favorite book because it
was too long and it felt like there was a lot of filler that didn’t move the
story forward or make it interesting.
EL (K-3)-OPTIONAL.
Reviewer, C. Peterson.
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