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Summary
When Peter, Archie, and Louie see the pile of wood, they think it's just a big mess. After all, it's just a pile of old junk sitting by a fence. But when Amy and Lily look at it, they see a clubhouse that's waiting to be built. Louie's father says that one man's trash is another man's treasure. Is he right?
Author Notes
Anastasia Suen is the author of over 160 books for children and adults. She is a former kindergarten, first, fifth, and sixth grade teacher, who continues to visit schools to teach students the six traits of writing.
Allan Eitzen is a renowned children's book illustrator and has done such books as Night Preacher and Italy ABC's .
Reviews (3)
School Library Journal Review
K-Gr 2-This beginning reader introduces children to a more modern and slightly more grown-up version of Ezra Jack Keats's neighborhood gang: Peter, Amy, Archie, Lily, and Louie. With nothing to do on a summer day, the youngsters put their heads together and come up with a plan to build a clubhouse. Out of a big pile of junk, they turn an ordinary day into something special, which is exactly what the original books were all about. Suen's narrative resembles Keats's rendering of long, slow days of childhood wonder found in things like snow, plain brown boxes, and stray kittens. And Eitzen does a fine job mimicking Keats's urban funkiness in watercolor and collage images. The illustrations are not little pieces of art and the story lacks the originality of Keats's award-winning work, but the goal of creating an easy-to-read vignette with characters that children may recognize and can relate to is sufficiently accomplished.-Holly T. Sneeringer, St. Mark School, Baltimore, MD (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Horn Book Review
In these books "based on the characters created by Ezra Jack Keats," collage effects that look sprayed-on are a pathetic nod to the originator. Otherwise, there's no resemblance between these plotless, lifeless, easy readers and Keats's vibrant picture books. It will be a snowy day in hell when the likes of "Arf! Arf! barked Willie. Meow! went the cat" convince a child that reading is worth learning. From HORN BOOK Fall 2002, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Booklist Review
Reviewed with Anastasia Suen' and Ezra Jack Keats' Loose Tooth. Gr. K-2. Like Willie's Birthday(2001) andHamster Chase(2001), these books in the Viking Easy-To-Read series are based on the characters created by the late Ezra Jack Keats, and the setting is Peter's multiracial, inner-city neighborhood. In The ClubhousePeter and his friends find a pile of old wood in a vacant lot, and, with the help of a kind store owner, they build a place to play. As in many of Keats' picture books, a game is at the center of Loose Tooth.Peter is trying to hold on to his loose tooth so that he won't have a hole in his smile for the school photo. He loses it in a game of basketball against the tough kids from Room 3, but he still finds good reason to smile. The combination of the wild action on the court and the personal story makes this a winner. In both books bright, active pictures, which blend watercolor with collage in Keats' style, will bringbeginning readers into the pages. Hazel Rochman.
