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Academy Award-winning actress and New York Times bestselling author Julianne Moore brings us more adventures from Freckleface Strawberry! Everyone's favorite red-haired seven-year-old has a loose tooth! And if it comes out at school, she gets a special prize from the nurse. But what if it doesn't budge before the bell rings? Kids who are at the stage of wiggly teeth will laugh along as they read this light and funny story about Freckleface's pursuit of the ultimate loose-tooth prize.
With predictable sentence patterns, simple words, frequent repetition, and bright, colorful illustrations, this is a new Freckleface Strawberry book that young readers can read all by themselves!
Author Notes
JULIANNE MOORE is an Academy Award-winning actress and the author of the New York Times bestselling Freckleface Strawberry series and My Mom Is a Foreigner, But Not to Me , illustrated by Meilo So. She lives in New York City with her family.
LeUYEN PHAM is the prolific illustrator of many books for children, including the New York Times bestselling Freckleface Strawberry series and Grace for President by Kelly DiPucchio. Her own works include The Twelve Days of Christmas , All the Things I Love About You, and Big Sister, Little Sister . She lives with her husband and two sons in San Francisco.
Reviews (2)
School Library Journal Review
PreS-Gr 2-A seven-year-old Pippi Longstocking look-alike is "just like everybody else," except that she is covered from top to toe in freckles. In attempts to rid herself of the oft-commented-upon affliction, she tries scrubbing, bleaching with lemons, and using "make-up." When these efforts fail, she dons a ski mask, long sleeves, and pants to hide her body completely. After an adult mentions that the freckles may fade as the girl gets older, she decides to accept them-for now. The humorous illustrations, using a Japanese brush pen, are digitally colored in browns, golds, olives, and rusty reds, giving the pictures a retro look. The child, with her gap-toothed grin and determined antics, makes for an appealing character. Her energetic and inquisitive friends provide entertainment, as well. Read this title along with Judy Blume's Freckle Juice (Random, 1978) for a look at both sides of this "spotty" subject.-Maryann H. Owen, Racine Public Library, WI (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
In the third early reader featuring Moore's redheaded heroine (following Backpacks! and Lunch, or What's That?), Freckleface Strawberry is eager to lose her first loose tooth-so long as it happens at school, where the nurse will give her a tooth necklace like the ones her classmates have. Moore stages the action over four brief chapters, employing simple sentences and repeated phrases ("She did not want to lose it in her room. She did not want to lose it in the kitchen"). But while Freckleface's eventual decision to take matters into her own hands provides a needed jolt of fun, the story and characters' personalities feel quite muted. Ages 4-6. Author's agent: Brenda Bowen, Sanford J. Greenburger Associates. Illustrator's agent: Linda Pratt, Wernick & Pratt Agency. (Jan.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
