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[ 책 소개 ]
* An ALA Notable Book
* Horn Book Fanfare 수상작
* Smithsonian Magazine Notable Children’s Book of the Year
8명의 고아들을 입양해서 혼자 키우느라 고생하는 보안관을 보다 못해 아빠에게 새엄마를 얻어주기 위해 노력하는 아이들의 이야기가 코믹하게 펼쳐집니다.
[ 서지 정보 ]
Edition: Paperback: 32 pages
ISBN-10: 0698119622
ISBN-13: 978-0698119628
책 크기: 25.3 cm x 20.3 cm
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Book Description
The lovable heroine of Saving Sweetness is back, and she's spunkier than ever! Fed up with the kindhearted sheriff's bumbling attempts to make a home for them, Sweetness and the other orphans decide that it's time to find the sheriff a wife. And when a mysterious letter arrives one day, Sweetness thinks it might hold the solution to their problems. Only problem is, none of them can read the letter to find out! So once again, it's up to Sweetness to save the day. With a rollicking rhythm and hilarious illustrations that capture the spirit of story, this is a sequel that's just as satisfying as the first book.
Horn Book Magazine
"Long as I got a biscuit, they got half." When it comes to raising the eight orphans he rescued (with more than a li'l help from Sweetness) from the evil Mrs. Sump, the sheriff clearly has his heart in the right place. Even if his homemaking skills are a little shaky: "Timmy's pants had a great big tear in 'em and I forgot to buy tape three days runnin'." He's also liable to rustle up tuna fish soup or spaghetti with peanut butter for dinner. And he can't read, neither, which poses a particular problem when a letter arrives for him. But a covert raid on literacy skills by Sweetness brings home contentment-not to mention an improvement on the sheriff's cooking. This sequel to Saving Sweetness (rev. 9/96) answers Diane Stanley's pitch-perfect narrative drawl with G. Brian Karas's homespun-on-the-range pictures, a cozy m,lange of media that warms the comedy with affection. The round-headed, dot-eyed characters have the aplomb of children's drawing, but there's plenty of sophistication in the dramatic placement of the figures and the effective page-turns; funny details, such as the tied-back trousers that serve as window treatments, reward close attention.
Publishers Weekly
In the amiable Saving Sweetness, Stanley and Karas introduced a clumsy and golden-hearted sheriff who adopts little Sweetness and her seven fellow orphans. In this equally charming sequel, the unmarried sheriff labors to be a good parent. "Every dang day I sweep their little beds and hang their clothes out on the line to get clean!" he boasts, unaware that his cleaning methods are dubious at best. The orphans urge him to find a mate, and one day a letter arrives, foreshadowing better times. But the happy ending is postponed, for the sheriff cannot read. It's up to Sweetness to learn her ABCs in a hurry. As readers will suspect, the message comes from the sheriff's "long lost love, Lucy Locket," a New York City teacher who must be lured back to rural Possum Trot to become a happily married working mother of eight. Karas contributes witty pencil portraits of angelic Lucy, the ingenuous sheriff and keen-minded Sweetness. His multimedia collages, which include torn handmade paper, scraps of wallpaper and pasty washes of rosy-hued paint, convey homespun warmth. Stanley, an expert at folksy first-person dialogue, sprinkles the sheriff's amusing narration with Texas vernacular (e.g., he claims to have loved Lucy "since God made dirt"). This comic tale offers almost enough humor to make up for Lucy's getting the lion's share of the chores. If only Part Three could find the sheriff a housecleaning whiz and a decent chef to boot.
Children's Literature
In this sequel to Saving Sweetness the eight orphans are tiring of their adopted sheriff-father's cooking-raisins in the mashed potatoes, avocado ice cream, and other awful victuals. They think he should marry. School is terrible, too, as the teacher is now the evil Mrs. Sump, formerly proprietress of the orphanage. When Sweetness bravely volunteers to learn to read so she can decipher a letter they've received, she discovers it's from the sheriff's long lost sweetheart, Miss Lucy Lockett. Sweetness writes back: "Kum kwik." All turns out well-and the sheriff even tolerates his lovely wife's vagaries such as using soap when she does the laundry and washing windows without using butter. The sheriff's western lingo is fun to read aloud, the silly story is perfect for first graders (and up) who will get the jokes, and the book stands on its own even if it is funnier when you know the first book. Karas' illustrations get the dried-up, dusty look of hardscrabble prairie life just right and the palette subtly lightens up when Miss Lucy Lockett arrives on the scene. |
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