Written by Sheri Radford
Illustrated by Christine
Tripp
Published by Lobster
Press
Softcover $9.95,
ISBN 10:1897550243,
ISBN 13:9781897550243
Hardcover $19.95,
ISBN 10:1897550006,
ISBN 13:9781897550007
The latest book in the Penelope series is a comical
birthday celebration with hilarious illustrations and
uproarious text. Penelope is having a birthday party
and everyone is invited. But as her parents quickly
realize, Penelope really did invite everyone.
As ballerinas leap through the air, ponies meander through
the kitchen, soccer players kick penalty shots in the
living room, and an elephant makes himself at home,
Penelope's flabbergasted parents find increasingly dramatic
words (outrageous... ridiculous... preposterous) to
describe the growing chaos. Even though Penelope meant
well by not leaving anyone out, it's clear that this
birthday bash has gone berserk... bonkers... bananas!
Ring the doorbell and join Penelope's party—with
this birthday girl, it's bound to be a blast!
A review in Resource
Links magazine awards the new Penelope book its
highest rating, "E" for "Excellent, enduring,
everyone should see it!" Read the review.
In an April 2009 review
in CM Magazine, Suzanne Pierson gives the book 3.5
stars out of 4 and a rating of "Highly Recommended."
She says: "Author Sheri Radford has created a strong
character in Penelope, a girl with lots of energy, good
intentions, and at least a little understanding when
even she has to admit that next year’s party won’t
include the elephant. Radford plays with language in
the text, using repetition, alliteration and numbers."
Pierson adds: "Almost everyone will be able to
see someone like themselves in this story. Children
will also enjoy looking for Penelope’s long-suffering
dog in the illustrations."
A spring 2009 review in Canadian
Bookseller Magazine also praises the book: "Penelope
is having a party and you're invited. Why not? There'll
be magicians, soccer players, clowns, and even an elephant.
Sheri Radford and Christine Tripp have collaborated
again to create Penelope and the Preposterous Birthday
Party, a balloon-busting, cake-throwing tribute
to children's birthday parties gone wild. When Penelope
invites her whole soccer team and the clowns from the
circus they went to last week, her parents wonder if
the party can get any wilder. Youth readers will revel
in the out of control antics of Penelope's party guests.
Tripp's illustrations burst with life and detail, matching
Radford's zany story. Penelope and the Preposterous
Birthday Party is a great gift for any young birthday
boy or girl and a story that will definitely be read
again and again."
In a March 2009 review in Quill
& Quire, Ciabh McEvenue says: "While the
[Penelope] stories are set in straight prose, Penelope
is a character firmly in the tradition of the Eloises
and Jillian Jiggses of the more giddy, rhyming kidlit
landscape (with maybe more than a little Munsch thrown
in), with the added appeal and support of Christine
Tripp's kinetic and vividly drawn watercolour scenes."
McEvenue adds: "Young readers will enjoy and respond
to the familiarity of the incremental build of the narrative
and will anticipate upcoming scenes. The story is predictable
and very simply told; however, the accessibility and
familiarity of the whole package is conducive to inevitable
retelling."
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Written by Sheri Radford
Illustrated by Christine
Tripp
Published by Lobster
Press
Softcover $9.95 Cdn, $7.95 US,
ISBN 1897073496
Hardcover $21.95 Cdn, $15.95 US,
ISBN 1894222946
Penelope won't go to sleep. Never ever not in a million
trillion gazillion years.
Her father doesn't believe her, but Penelope knows
there are monsters lurking in the dark. How else can
she explain the dancing drawers, creeeeaking closet,
and bounce-bouncing bed? Will Penelope have the confidence
to turn on the lights and call out the things that go
bump in the night?
In this new Penelope misadventure, our spunky heroine
takes on gnomes and trolls and giants with the same
comic flair that brought down the house in Penelope
and the Humongous Burp.
CanWest Raise-A-Reader selection for September 2005.
Highlighted title for Independent Publisher Online
for July 2005.
According to a September 2005 write-up in the Midwest
Book Review: "Imaginatively written by Sheri
Radford, and featuring the lively illustrations of Christine
Tripp, Penelope and the Monsters is a charmingly
delightful picturebook which is ideal for family, school,
and community library picturebook collections. Also
very highly recommended is Radford and Tripp's first
title about this unusual and comic little heroine, Penelope
and the Humongous Burp."
In a June 24, 2005, review in CM:
Canadian Review of Materials, Patricia Fay says:
"Penelope and the Monsters is the second
book in the 'Penelope' series, and Sheri Radford and
Christine Tripp have created another hit!" Fay
adds: "This story will appeal to children who worry
about monsters and strange shadows at night. Penelope
is a strong character who can and does stand up to these
'monsters.'"
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Written by Sheri Radford
Illustrated by Christine
Tripp
Published by Lobster
Press
Softcover $10.95 Cdn, $6.95 US,
ISBN 189707333X
Hardcover $21.95 Cdn, $15.95 US,
ISBN 1894222830
The first book in the Penelope series features comic
mayhem when the heroine gulps her grape soda in a far-from-ladylike
manner.
Call the doctors! Phone the firefighters! Get the police!
Too thirsty to heed her mother's warnings not to drink
so quickly, Penelope soon learns what disastrous events
can come from drinking a simple glass of grape soda.
What will happen next when Penelope feels those funny
bubbles building up in her stomach?
Penelope and the Humongous Burp gives kids
the giggles with its adorable star, fast-paced story,
and lively illustrations.
In an April 2004 review in Quill
& Quire, Jessica Kelley calls the book "a
cautionary yet gleeful tale of the perils of too much
soda pop." She also says: "With its exuberant
pictures, slightly naughty subject matter, silly words
('glurble glooble'), and repetitive phrases, Penelope
and the Humongous Burp could lead to some comical
storytimes."
Lian
Goodall says in a Jan. 10, 2004, review in the St.
Catharines Standard:"Penelope
and the Humongous Burp by Sheri Radford reminds
me of Good Families Don’t by Robert Munsch.
This humorous treatment of body functions begins with
young Penelope hastily drinking so much soda that her
tummy beings to go 'glurble glooble.' The 'bbuurrp'
she emits shakes the walls, the next one knocks them
down and then the whole house tumbles! Kids will find
this story amusing, and be reminded to say 'excuse me.'"
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