Hughes, Susan Maggie
McGillicuddy’s Eye for Trouble
Illustrated by Brooke Kerrigan
PICTURE BOOK Kids Can Press,
2016. $16.95 Content: G.
Elderly Maggie McGillicuddy sits on her front porch and watches over her
neighborhood. She mixes her imagination
with the real world and sees trouble lurking (snakes in the grass, stampeding
elephants), but one day she sees real trouble when her little neighbor,
Charlie, runs after his ball towards the street and an oncoming car. Maggie yells the danger to Charlie and saves
him. Now together they sit on the porch
swing and imagine trouble.
This book is
a bit confusing it took me and my kids half the book to figure out that the trouble
Maggie saw wasn’t real. The author also
has a running dialogue in parentheses with the reader which interrupts the flow
of the story. The illustrations are cute
but are in muted pastels.
EL (K-3) –
OPTIONAL. Reviewer, C. Peterson.
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