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An unlikely friendship develops when a lumberjack meets a sasquatch. Follow along as they share Pacific Northwest adventures through the seasons and become close friends. After a tentative meeting one fall day, Sasquatch and Lumberjack develop a close friendship as they ski and sled, surf and swim, camp and hike, and forage and pick apples throughout the seasons. This delightful story of an unlikely friendship is told in spare text with endearing illustrations.
Author Notes
CRIX SHERIDAN is a creator, illustrator, and designer calling the great Pacific Northwest home. Born east of the Rockies and west of the island of Manhattan, Crix studied screenwriting, film, philosophy, and art in school and at university. He took second prize in a one-act play contest while living abroad in Dublin during his studies of theatre. After years traveling and trying his hand at various fields, he came back to study graphic design. His distinct visual style combines the energy of animation and the love of rich, detailed illustrations. In comics he has contributed to titles including Plants vs. Zombies and Yosagi Yojimbo. His own graphic novels include Motorcycle Samurai and the all-ages comic Spacebatand the Fugitives with Top Shelf. His latest work, The Trouble Makers, was developed with his niece and nephews about them as superheroes. He currently lives in Seattle with his wife and their two bikes.
Reviews (4)
School Library Journal Review
PreS-Gr 1-An amiable, photography-loving Sasquatch and a diminutive, bearded and plaid-shirted Lumberjack unexpectedly meet in a forest. Each spread follows their outdoor adventures through the seasons, accompanied by a single word. In "Spring" the pair stop and smell the roses, embark on an evening "hike" up a hill, and settle down in front of a campfire to "roast" marshmallows. Sheridan's colorful, animated cartoon illustrations are full of movement and funny details like a bandit raccoon sneaking a snack and a tiny mouse who appears in every scene. The meaning of most of the action words can be discerned from the illustrations ("slide" depicts the Lumberjack skiing down a snowy mountain, while the Sasquatch coasts on his hairy belly; the duo join forces to reach the highest tree branch and "pick" apples), but some of the words are more challenging to interpret ("forage" shows the Lumberjack tapping a toad stool with his boot and the Sasquatch looks like he is interested in the mouse, not the mushrooms). In the final spread, the "friends" watch the sunset arm-in-arm. VERDICT This additional purchase invites visual exploration and retelling. Kids will love to pore over the art and tell their own versions of the story.-Linda Ludke, London Public Library, Ont. © Copyright 2018. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Horn Book Review
Each of fifteen spreads uses one word to describe a year in the life of a sasquatch and a lumberjack, from "strangers" (they meet) to "winter" (they ice-skate together) to "friends" (they watch the sunset arm-in-arm). Too bad the chunky cartoonish art fights with the story's tenderness. Sharp-eyed readers can track a mouse and a camera from spread to spread. (c) Copyright 2019. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
Strangers in the woods become friends.A sasquatch who's wearing red high-tops and carrying a camera meets a gray-bearded, flannel-wearing lumberjack: "STRANGERS." That doesn't last long. In the "autumn" they "forage" for mushrooms and "pick" apples. In the "winter" they skate and go ice fishing, "climb" a mountain, and "slide" down the other side. In the "spring" they "hike" and "roast" marshmallows, and they ride a tandem "bike." And in the "summer" they "swim" and "float" lazily on a lakeand by the end, they are, of course, best "friends." This quietly adventurous tale of a growing friendship between two unlikely buddies begins on the front endpapers with the characters in photos by themselves. Over the course of 15 full-bleed, double-page spreads, each with only one word, set in all capital letters, the two build their friendship in the forest. Two tiny friends, a bumblebee and a mouse, go along for the ride. And the closing endpapers are graced with selfies of the duo having fun together. Graphic novelist Sheridan's simple tale of friendship is also a love note to the great outdoors. The colorfully muted illustrations are varied in perspective and full of humor (a surfing sasquatch in a wetsuit with an octopus on its back?!). The lumberjack is white; the sasquatch's fur is rust-colored. Emergent readers will quickly learn the text and tell their own tales of the duo's adventures. (Picture book. 2-7) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
In this almost wordless tale, an unlikely friendship blooms. In woodsy scenes captioned by single big words that are, as often as not, dispensable, an old lumberjack and a camera-toting, Wookiee-like Sasquatch greet each other genially as STRANGERS, then go on through passing seasons to FORAGE among the AUTUMN trees, CLIMB a snowy mountain, HIKE up a hill, ROAST marshmallows over a campfire, surf and SWIM in SUMMER, and, finally, sit arm in arm to watch the sun go down as FRIENDS. The illustrations, done in a muted, gentle palette, convey most of the action, and unlike other monster-centric stories, there's nothing for young readers to fear in this sweet narrative. An elementally simple, economically written iteration of the theme, free of even a moment of conflict, infused with lighthearted spirit thanks to the lumberjack's wildly flyaway white whiskers and his fun-loving companion's severe underbite and goofy grin.--Peters, John Copyright 2018 Booklist
