Krumwiede, Lana Just
Itzy Illustrated by Greg Pizzoli Candlewick Press, 2015. $15.99
PICTURE BOOK Content: G.
Itzy the spider is going off to school and
wants to feel like a big boy. He wants
people to stop calling him Itzy Bitzy and he wants to be able to catch his own
flies for lunch (and not eat the pre-packed lunch from his mom). While at school he tries to catch a fly and
stumbles across three different situations where his is the spider in the story:
Miss Muffet eating her curds and whey, the old lady who swallowed a fly and of
course Itzy Bitzy Spider. He eventually
catches two flies and feels like a big kid.
The illustrations are cute and the cover attracted my kids’ attention,
but the story is all over the place. The
story is aimed towards a younger audience, but not many kids have a foundation of
the stories that are cross referenced throughout this book making it feel like
a big jumbled mess. All three of my kids
(during two different readings) said at the end of the book—“that was stupid”-not
eloquent, but it says it all.
EL
(K-3)-OPTIONAL. Reviewer, C. Peterson.
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