Louise Trapeze Is Totally 100% Fearless by Micol Ostow
2015; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 69; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/bcc.2015.0766
ISSN1558-6766
Autores ResumoReviewed by: Louise Trapeze Is Totally 100% Fearless by Micol Ostow Jeannette Hulick Ostow, Micol Louise Trapeze Is Totally 100% Fearless; illus. by Brigette Barrager. Random House, 2015 106p Library ed. ISBN 978-0-553-49740-3 $17.99 Trade ed. ISBN 978-0-553-49739-7 $14.99 E-book ed. ISBN 978-0-553-49741-0 $9.99 R Gr. 2-3 As she approaches her seventh birthday, Louise Trapeze (part of the Sweet Potato Traveling Circus Troupe) looks forward to finally being allowed to do some performing on the high trapeze with her parents. When the opportunity is offered, however, she realizes that she’s actually (one of her favorite words) afraid of heights, a discovery she tries to hide from everyone in the circus. Reasoning that if she can’t [End Page 106] find her fancy new costume she won’t be able to perform, she hides the outfit in a props trailer; the snake tamer’s cobra finds it, though, and somehow manages to carry it up to a treetop, necessitating the rescue of both the snake and the costume. With the help of Clementine, the circus elephant, Louise retrieves the reptile and the clothes and finally comes clean about her fears. The breezy, humorous narrative paints a surprisingly sympathetic and credible picture of the way a fear can get a grip on a kid, and while the solution to Louise’s anxiety ends up being a tad contrived, her mom’s comforting response is not. Louise’s slightly sassy voice is reminiscent of Junie B. Jones or an older Lola from Child’s Charlie and Lola series, and her frequent interchanges about vocabulary and love for sparkles and ruffles will appeal to the Fancy Nancy crowd as well. While the length and complexity of the text makes it more suitable for older primary-graders as a read-alone title, younger students would likely enjoy it as a readaloud as well. Two-color illustrations (black with pink accents) add to the fun, and Louise’s tangled mess of hair suits her frenetic energy. Copyright © 2015 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
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