Kelley, Jane The
Escapades of Clint McCool: Sol-Ray Man and the Freaky Flood, 90 pages. Illustrated by Jessika Von Innerebner CHAPTER BOOK Grosset and Dunlap (Penguin
Random House), 2017. $9. Content: G.
Clint McCool has an amazing imagination. He believes that his hat helps him to be a superhero
and he is especially excited to go to school because he’s going to meet his
hero Sol-Ray Man at an assembly. On his way to school, he decides to take the button off his
hat that makes him speedy because he can’t wear his hat in school and Clint has to show Sol-Ray man his powers. The button flies out of his hands and down the
sewer grate. Clint McCool thinks that the alligators who he imagines live under the street
are now going to have superpowers, so when the water line breaks during school
he starts to think of ways he can save everyone.
The cover of this chapter book looks like Clint
McCool is going to have an adventure, but really it’s a picture of him imagining
his adventure. I don’t know if kids will buy into this story because it’s
sometimes confusing what is real and what is his imagination. This is the second book, so maybe I’m missing
something about his character. The
illustrations are cute and fun, but Clint doesn’t treat others well and the
story was kind of boring.
EL (K-3) –
OPTIONAL. Reviewer, C. Peterson.
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