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Summary
"Louella Mae,she runs away!Look in the cornfields!Look in the hay!"Can you guess where Louella Mae might be? This playful interactive text invites the reader to participate in the search that takes place on a large family farm.The book is perfect for read-alouds as well as for beginning readers. And there's a surprise in store for whoever finds the elusive Louella Mae!
Author Notes
Karen Beaumont Alarcón has taught a whole range of ages. Her youngest student was in preschool and her oldest, so far, has been 109 1/2 years old. She lives on a ranch in San Martin, California, with her children and a variety of animals. This is her first picture book. Roseanne Litzinger illustrated and stapled together her first book when she was three years old. It was entitled A Day in the Life of My Uncle Fred B and started with his breakfast. She has subsequently illustrated several picture books. She lives in Santa Monica, California.
Reviews (2)
School Library Journal Review
K-Gr 2Everyone is looking for the missing Louella Mae. Men, women, and children all join in the search as they scour the cornfields, the barn, the woods, and the hillsides. The day passes, and when the dejected group returns home at nightfall, they find Louella Mae, a mama pig, sleeping in a tub with a litter of babies. This little escapade is engagingly written in verse, with the rhythm and rhyming scheme established in the first few pages. Thereafter, young audiences are prompted to supply the ending rhyme for each pair of couplets. The preschool set and kindergarteners love interactive poetry and are bound to ask for this book again and again. The simple text is also suitable for beginning readers. Litzinger combines watercolor and pencil for her cartoon illustrations. They are depicted in softly muted colors and convey a pleasingly warm and lighthearted mood.Ruth Semrau, formerly at Lovejoy School, Allen, TX (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
Where is Louella Mae? Everyone on the farm wants to know, so they launch a massive, rhyming search that builds in funny freneticism with every turn of the page. In fact, page-turning is an instrumental part of the book, since that's how each one of Louella Mae's possible hiding places is revealed; turning the penultimate page discloses not only where Louella Mae is, but what she is as well: a pig. First-time author Alarcón gleefully captures the cadences of country talk, which will prompt those reading aloud to put on their best hillbilly accent: "Run tell the neighbors/ and y'all give a yell/ 'fore she wanders off yonder/ and falls in the...[turning the page]...well." Litzinger (The Someday House) conjures up dumpling-shaped, totemic-looking figures who are dwarfed by rows of corn and seem only a head or two taller than their ducks and chickens. The stylized scale and the action-filled scenes gleefully evoke the feverish anxiety of the characters. The artist powerfully wields the deep earth tones and subtle gradations of her watercolor palette (a vignette depicting the sun setting behind a range of mountains is particularly striking), producing a sophisticated look that wittily complements the hill-folks setting. Ages 4-7. (Apr.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved