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A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever

by Marla Frazee

In this moving and funny celebration of young boys, childhood friendships, and the power of the imagination, Frazee captures the very essence of summer vacation and what it means to be a kid. Full color.

FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New

Publisher Description

When James and Eamon go to a week of Nature Camp and stay at Eamon's grandparents' house, it turns out that their free time spent staying inside, eating waffles, and playing video games is "way" more interesting than nature. But sometimes things work out best when they "don't" go exactly as planned. In this moving and hilarious celebration of young boys, childhood friendships, and the power of the imagination, Marla Frazee captures the very essence of summer vacation and what it means to be a kid.

Author Biography

Marla Frazee has illustrated many acclaimed picture books, including "All the World "by Liz Garton Scanlon, which received a 2010 Caldecott Honor, ?"Everywhere Babies" by Susan Meyers and "Harriet, You'll Drive Me Wild!" by Mem Fox, as well as her own "The Boss Baby, Walk On!", "Roller Coaster", and "Santa Claus the World's Number One Toy Expert A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever", which received a 2009 Caldecott Honor. She is also the illustrator of the bestselling Clementine chapter book series by Sara Pennypacker. She lives with her family in Pasadena, California. Visit her at www.mar

Review

* "Frazee (Roller Coaster) salutes grandparents and slyly notes children's diversions in this breezy tale of "the best week ever." After Eamon enrolls in nature camp, he spends nights with his grandparents, Bill and Pam, at their beach cottage. Eamon's friend James joins the sleepover, and although the text describes James as "very sad" when his mother drives away, a cartoon shows him exuberantly waving "Bye!" Humorous contradictions arise between the hand-lettered account ("Bill handed them each a pair of binoculars and a list of birds to look for. On the way home, the boys reported their findings") and voice-bubble exchanges between the boys (Eamon, training the lenses on James: "His freckles are huge." James: "Yeah, and his tongue is gross"). Bill tries to interest the boys in a museum exhibit on penguins; the inseparable friends ("To save time, Bill began calling them Jamon") show no enthusiasm yet energetically build "penguins" from mussel shells. Frazee's narrative resembles a tongue-in-cheek travel journal, with plenty of enticing pencil and gouache illustrations of the characters knocking about the shoreline. Like The Hello Goodbye Window, Frazee's story celebrates casual extended-family affection, with a knowing wink at the friends' dismissal of their elders' best-laid plans." (starred review) -- (02/18/2008) * "Summer can seem a long time away during the colder portions of the year, and summer books can hold a special promise and poignancy in the long run-up until the months of freedom. Truly stellar summer books, such as Lynne Rae Perkins' Pictures from Our Vacation can evoke the weirdness and unexpected magic of summer's free-form experiences even in the darkest season. Add in some snarky and boisterous grade-school humor, and you've got A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever. . . . This sweetly captures the pleasures of youthful time-wasting in the company of your best friend with a keen understanding that those pleasures are best when they're unsentimental. The result is just realistic enough to be perfect, a grade-schooler's idyllic summer with limited demands for learning and bettering and a whole lot of reveling in kid priorities. A wonderful late-winter reminder that summer is coming, this will cheer up audiences by encouraging them to reflect on glorious summers past and even more glorious summers to anticipate." (starred review) -- (03/01/2008) * "Frazee's hilarious round-headed cartoons romp across the page in snort-inducing counterpoint, abetted by the occasional speech balloon. . . . The genius here is not that the boys finally get outside in the end; it's that their joy in being together is celebrated equally whether they're annihilating each other in a video game or building a replica of Antarctica on Bill and Pam's dock. As respectful of kid sensibilities and priorities as it's possible for an adult to achieve." (starred review)-- (02/01/2008) * "Frazee brings out the typical energy of a couple of boys who may scoff at nature and seem to prefer watching TV, but it is through her artful illustrations that readers catch glimpses of just how savvy and creative these kids can be. . . . This intergenerational story will elicit howls of laughter and requests for repeated readings." (starred review) -- (03/01/2008)

Prizes

Winner of Delaware Diamonds Award (Grades K-2) 2009 Commended for Caldecott Medal 2009 Commended for Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards (Picture) 2008 Commended for Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens (Seven to Ten) 2009 Short-listed for Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award (Grades K-3) 2010 Short-listed for South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award (Picture Book) 2009 Short-listed for Red Clover Award 2010 Short-listed for Monarch Award 2011 Short-listed for Buckaroo Book Award 2009

Review Quote

* Summer can seem a long time away during the colder portions of the year, and summer books can hold a special promise and poignancy in the long run-up until the months of freedom. Truly stellar summer books, such as Lynne Rae Perkins' Pictures from Our Vacation can evoke the weirdness and unexpected magic of summer's free-form experiences even in the darkest season. Add in some snarky and boisterous grade-school humor, and you've got A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever. . . . This sweetly captures the pleasures of youthful time-wasting in the company of your best friend with a keen understanding that those pleasures are best when they're unsentimental. The result is just realistic enough to be perfect, a grade-schooler's idyllic summer with limited demands for learning and bettering and a whole lot of reveling in kid priorities. A wonderful late-winter reminder that summer is coming, this will cheer up audiences by encouraging them to reflect on glorious summers past and even more glorious summers to anticipate. (starred review)

Description for Library

Friends James and Eamon enjoy a wonderful week at the home of Eamon's grandparents during summer vacation.

Details ISBN0152060200 Author Marla Frazee Short Title COUPLE OF BOYS HAVE THE BE Pages 40 Publisher Harcourt Children's Books Language English ISBN-10 0152060200 ISBN-13 9780152060206 Media Book Format Hardcover DEWEY E Illustrations Yes Year 2008 Publication Date 2008-03-31 Imprint Harcourt Children's Books Country of Publication United States Residence CA, US Audience Age 6-9 DOI 10.1604/9780152060206 Audience Children/Juvenile

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• Condition: Neu
• ISBN-13: 9780152060206
• Type: NA
• Publication Name: NA
• ISBN: 9780152060206
• Publication Year: 2008
• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Book Title: Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever
• Item Height: 254mm
• Author: Marla Frazee
• Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books
• Genre: Children & Young Adults
• Item Width: 203mm
• Number of Pages: 40 Pages

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