<i>The Boss Baby</i> (review)
2010; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 64; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/bcc.2010.0032
ISSN1558-6766
Autores Tópico(s)Themes in Literature Analysis
ResumoReviewed by: The Boss Baby Deborah Stevenson Frazee, Marla. The Boss Baby; written and illus. by Marla Frazee. Beach Lane/Simon, 2010. 32p. ISBN 978-1-4424-0167-9 $16.99 R 5-8 yrs. Look out, parents—the boss baby has arrived. This tyrannical manager "set up his office right smack-dab in the middle of the house," and "if things weren't done to his immediate satisfaction, he had a fit." After wearing his parents out with a multitude of meetings and demand after demand for perks, he finds a different approach to the staff (saying "Ma-ma? Da-da?") that elicits the kind of administrative adoration he's been seeking all along. Both adults and kids will giggle at the wry truth of the "boss" notion, but it's the playing out of the conceit in the illustrations against the poker-faced text that really lands the joke. Frazee makes her baby the boss of a retro '50s household, where the young dad (Hawaiian shirt and saddle shoes) and mom (high ponytail and full skirt) are suitably awed by the diminutive boss in his sharp black suit (a onesie with a trap door in back) and striped tie who carries a briefcase larger than he is. The art, in the illustrator's familiar teals and peaches (particularly era-appropriate here), fully maximizes the comic potential of a fireplug-sized baby executive making boardroom-bully gestures from his desk-shaped baby walker. This is going to be a real hit as a gift baby book, but kids, especially those reeling from the impact of a tyrannical new sibling, will also find plenty of humor in the brutish management of Old Man Baby. Copyright © 2010 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
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