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[ 책 소개 ]
A New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year로 선정된 "Martha Speaks"의 연작입니다.
알파벳 스프를 먹은 후 갑자기 말문이 트인 마사는 동네에서 유명한 개가 되었지요. 하지만 알파벳 스프를 만드는 회사에서 더 많은 이익을 얻기 위해 알파벳 26자 중에서 13자를 뺀 스프를 만들게 되자, 이 스프를 먹은 마사는 도무지 알아들을 수 없는 발음을 하기 시작했어요. 과연 마사는 온전한 발음을 다시 할 수 있게 될까요?
보는 즐거움과 읽는 즐거움이 가득한 책입니다.
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Edition: Paperback: 32 pages
ISBN-10: 0395901189
ISBN-13: 9780395901182
책 크기: 25.2cm x 20.5cm
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Book Description
Something's wrong with Martha, the talking dog! She has eaten her daily bowl of alphabet soup, but when she opens her mouth to speak, strange sounds come out instead of words. Fortunately her nose still works, and she follows it to the source of the mystery.
Review
"Martha becomes a victim of corporate downsizing in the most inspired book yet about this talking dog. . . . This latest entry is a superb blend of humor, pathos, and Martha's brave panache."
From the Publisher
When the current owner of the soup company breaks the founder's promise to have every letter of the alphabet in every can of soup, Martha, the talking dog, takes action.
Publisher's Weekly
While Meddaugh's Martha Calling essentially reprised the hilarious Martha Speaks, this third volume teaches the talking dog new tricks. And, without losing entertainment value, it puts corporate strategies and deceptive ads in perspective for young audiencesno mean feat. After reminding readers that Martha requires daily helpings of alphabet soup to be able to speak, Meddaugh introduces a dilemma. Granny's Soup Company has fired 13 letter-crafters to cut costs ("Why do we need all those letters? This is soup, not school!"), and the resulting broth includes only half the alphabet. Suddenly Martha begins speaking gibberish, and when she tries to use the phone or order burgers at a drive-through, humans regard her with amusement, not amazement. Shocked, the chatty canine realizes that she's about to become "just another dog, scratching on the door to go out." Meddaugh appends asterisks to Martha's attempts to talk, helpfully translating "Wogo!" as "My words are gone!" Then, after building suspense with a careful balance of text, cartoons and voice-bubbles, the author-illustrator solves the predicament in a shrewd, witty way. The workers return to their jobs, the missing letters are restored and Martha learns that her family loves her, voice or no voice.
School Library Journal
Fans of Martha Speaks (1992) and Martha Calling (1994, both Houghton) will be delighted by this third adventure of the talking canine. When Granny Flo inherits the company that makes the alphabet soup that enables Martha to speak, the woman immediately fires 13 of the 26 pasta letter makers for the sake of bigger profits. The elimination of these letters from the soup makes Martha's speech hilariously unintelligible. When the quick-thinking dog learns of the cuts from Alf Abbot (unemployed pasta man "A"), she uses her smarts to convince Granny Flo to put the missing letters back in the cans. Each brightly colored page is filled with the zaniness and dialogue balloons of the previous books. Older children will enjoy all the alphabetic wordplay and figuring out the missing letters with the help of the author's footnotes. Great fun!
Booklist
Who can forget Martha, the dog that talks as a result of eating alphabet soup? Martha is still slurping soup in this third offering, but she's having a little trouble articulating. Unbeknownst to Martha and her family, the new owner of Granny's Soup Company is cutting costs by eliminating some of the letters in each can. Thus, when Martha says, "Good soup today," it comes out, "Goo oup o." The family thinks she is losing her talent to talk, but Martha knows better. She noses around Granny's Soup Company until she learns how the company is shortchanging its customers and does something about it. As usual, this Martha book is marked by sly humor, but it's not quite as accessible as the previous stories. Martha still speaks in balloons, but now an asterisk directs readers to the bottom of the page, where her utterances are translated, interrupting the flow of the story. And even in Martha's wacky world, corporate downsizing isn't all that funny. All's well that ends well, though, and kids will agree a middling Martha is better than no Martha at all. |
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