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Meet Livingstone Columbus Magellan Crouse, a curious boy who loves to explore!
You'd expect boy with a name like Livingstone Columbus Magellan Crouse to explore. But Livingstone Columbus Magellan Crouse doesn't stop there. He comes home with specimens from his travels! First a bug, and then a moose-what will Livingstone Columbus Magellan Crouse show up with next? Curious readers are in for a fun adventure.
Author Notes
Kevin Lewis has always been a bit of an explorer, and as a kid, he was known to bring home a criter or two. Luckily for him, he grew up on a farm where there was always room for one more. The author of The Runaway Pumpkin , Dinosaur Dinosaur , My Truck Is Stuck! , and Chugga-Chugga Choo-Choo , he left behind the green acres of his childhood for the hustle and bustle of New York City, where he edits books for children.
David Ercolini was inspired to illustrate children's books while teaching elementary school art classes. He won the Grand Prize at the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators 2009 Winter Conference. This is his first picture book. He lives in New York City.
Reviews (2)
School Library Journal Review
K-Gr 2-Always curious, Livingstone Columbus Magellan Crouse loves to explore the great outdoors. Every day, he forsakes the toys in his bedroom to search and spy outside, collecting whatever natural treasures he comes across. His mother complains when he brings home a pocketful of bugs; undeterred, he goes out to find something to replace the unappreciated insects. In the spirit of Laura Numeroff's If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (Harper & Row, 1985), the situation snowballs, becoming more and more ridiculous. Livingstone Columbus Magellan tracks down successively larger animals, moving on to a mouse and then a pig, sneaking in a moose from the forest and graduating to a circus elephant and then a whale. Poor Mrs. Crouse becomes increasingly perturbed, reprimanding her son in irate rhyme. "Livingstone Columbus Magellan Crouse,/please get that hog out of my house!/I told you twice, but I won't shout./For the third time, just show it out!" Finally, the woman sighs with relief when her little boy takes the whale and leaves the house. When once again he comes home with a bug, she simply shrugs and hugs him. The precisely composed ink drawing, painting, and Photoshop illustrations, which set the tale in the halcyon age when men wore hats and women donned aprons, add an old-fashioned charm and much humor to the story. Pair this one with Jane O'Connor's Fancy Nancy: Explorer Extraordinaire (HarperCollins, 2009) to delight young nature lovers during storyhour.-Linda L. Walkins, Mount Saint Joseph Academy, Brighton, MA (c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
"Livingstone Columbus Magellan Crouse,/ I'll have no bugs inside this house!/ I'll say it once. Won't say it twice./ Repeating myself will not suffice!" The overall-wearing boy who's the object of this tirade doesn't look like a troublemaker-his expression is thoughtful, and he moves deliberately-but the animals he brings home progress from bugs to small mammals and, eventually, larger ones. After he floods the house in an attempt to accommodate a whale, his mother realizes that bugs might not be so bad: "His mother thought. She made a shrug,/ then gave her son a great big hug." Newcomer Ercolini's mild-looking mother and son seem out of step with Lewis's over-the-top rants, but he shines in the imagining of megafauna lodged in a suburban house: the elephant falling through the floor into the mother's bathroom; the moose antler-shaped gashes on either side of the boy's bedroom door; the submerged first floor with houseplants afloat. While Lewis's (My Truck Is Stuck!) verse lacks metric integrity, its comic bombast more than compensates, and children will appreciate the plight of the story's misunderstood hero. Ages 3-8. (Aug.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.