Extra! Extra! fairy-tale news from Hidden Forest

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Title:

Extra! Extra! fairy-tale news from Hidden Forest

Author:

Ada, Alma Flor, author.

Tryon, Leslie, illustrator.

Summary:

Presents articles, editorials and ads from the "Hidden Forest Times" that retell many well-known stories, including Jack and the beanstalk, Pinocchio, and the Tortoise and the Hare. When the residents of Hidden Forest wake up and open their morning papers, they are in for a surprise. An enormous beanstalk has mysteriously sprouted outside of Jack Blake's house, and Jack is nowhere to be found. Meanwhile, Pinocchio and Half-Chicken have set out on adventures of their own, and Tortoise and Hare are off to the races. Will they all find their happy endings? Hidden Forest News has got the scoops. Written and laid out in newspaper format, this installment in the enchanting Hidden Forest series has received a new twist from Alma Flor Ada and Leslie Tryon.

Edition:

1st ed.

Physical Description:

1 v. (unpaged) : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.

Genre:

Picture books.

Subject Term:

Newspapers -- Juvenile fiction.

Fairy tales -- Juvenile fiction.

Animals -- Juvenile fiction.

Author(s):

Tryon, Leslie,

Publisher:

Atheneum Books for Young Readers,

Electronic Access:

Publisher description

Publication Date:

2007

ISBN:

9780689825828

9781428747470

Publication Information:

New York, N.Y. : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2007.

Call Number:

P ADA

Holds: Copies:

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Item Barcode	Collection	Call Number	Status	Item Holds
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Summary

When the residents of Hidden Forest wake up and open their morning papers, they are in for a surprise.

An enormous beanstalk has mysteriously sprouted outside of Jack Blake's house, and Jack is nowhere to be found. Meanwhile, Pinocchio and Half-Chicken have set out on adventures of their own, and Tortoise and Hare are off to the races. Will they all find their happy endings? Hidden Forest News has got the scoops.

Written and laid out in newspaper format, this installment in the enchanting Hidden Forest series has received a new twist from Alma Flor Ada and Leslie Tryon. All of your favorite fairy-tale characters from Dear Peter Rabbit ; Yours Truly, Goldilocks ; and With Love, Little Red Hen are back, but this time they are hitting the presses and making headlines!

Author Notes

Alma Flor Ada, an authority on multicultural and bilingual education, is the recipient of the 2012 Virginia Hamilton Literary Award, and in 2014 she was honored by the Mexican government with the prestigious OHTLI Award. She is the author of numerous award-winning books for young readers, including Dancing Home with Gabriel Zubizarreta, My Name Is María Isabel , Under the Royal Palms (Pura Belpré Medal), Where the Flame Trees Bloom , and The Gold Coin (Christopher Award Medal). She lives in California, and you can visit her at AlmaFlorAda.com.

Leslie Tryon is the author of the Albert books and several others for young readers. She is also the illustrator of Alma Flor Ada's Dear Peter Rabbit and With Love, Little Red Hen. She lives in Carmel Valley, California.

Reviews (2)

School Library Journal Review

Gr 1-4-Unlike previous books about the Hidden Forest, which retold traditional fairy tales through a series of letters, this fourth installment uses a newspaper format. Through articles, opinion pieces, and even sports and international pages, several issues of the Hidden Forest News provide the scoop on Jack and the Beanstalk and report on an Italian toymaker who has gone missing while searching for his puppet/son and a race between a hare and a tortoise. Headlines, columns, and black-and-white spot art tell Jack's tale from a variety of viewpoints. Things are livened up by occasional full-color pages painted in bright watercolors that show Hidden Forest residents producing, delivering, and reading the paper. Fans of the series will find their favorite characters in the articles, editorial bylines, and even the advertisements (Mr. Wolfy Lupus is running a summer camp for children). While there is much fun here, the format does make the plot considerably more complicated. Readers unfamiliar with the featured stories may struggle to follow along, while older children who would enjoy the humor may be put off by art with such a young tone. Purchase where the other books are popular.-Julie Roach, Cambridge Public Library, MA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Publisher's Weekly Review

Abandoning the epistolary style of their first three books about the denizens of the Hidden Forest (Dear Peter Rabbit), Ada and Tryon use a newspaper format to tell several stories at once. Tryon alternates black-and-white newspaper pages with watercolors of fairy tale characters to good effect, but the chopped-up tales and scattered extraneous material seem too complex in both narration and vocabulary for the book?s target audience. In addition to a tale about Pinocchio and Geppetto, the story of Jack and the Beanstalk appears on news, op-ed and interview pages. Although the paper features some international news, it largely maintains a folksy small-town tone that often feels didactic. The sports pages cover the race between the Hare and the Tortoise, while the Mexican folktale about the Half-chicken makes international news. Some of the funniest bits appear on the newspaper?s "Back Page": Mr. Fer O?Cious and Mr. Wolfy Lupus, villains from previous books, offer such enticements as Cooking Lessons where "You provide the ingredients." Ages 5-8. (July) Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information.