Me Tarzan
When Dorothy gets the part of Tarzan in the class play, her tremendous yell attracts the attention of increasingly larger and wilder animals.
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Betsy Byars is a widely read and loved author of many award-winning middle-grade books for children, including Summer Of The Swans (Viking), a 1971 Newbery Medal winner. The Pinballs was an ALA Notable Children's Book in 1977 as well as the basis for an ABC Afterschool Special. Other books she has written for HarperCollins are Good-bye, Chicken Little; The Seven Treasure Hunts, illustrated by Jennifer Barrett; and three I Can Read Books, the popular The Golly Sisters Go West, Hooray For The Golly Sisters!, and The Golly Sisters Ride Again, all illustrated by Sue Truesdell. Ms. Byars lives in Clemson, South Carolina, with her husband.
"Me Tarzan, you Dwayne," gloats Dorothy when she out-screams her nemesis to land the starring role in the class play. Similarly glib, frequently funny lines surface throughout this light-as-cotton-candy, fast-paced novel by Newbery Medalist Byars (Summer of the Swans). A primal urge washes over the feisty girl just before she belts out her Tarzan yell: "She felt power, a primitive power. It was such a strong sensation that it made her feel she was not only in the jungle, she was master of it." Each time she howls, the sound attracts a menagerie of animals, ranging from neighborhood cats and dogs to the horses from a nearby riding academy to the four-legged performers in a visiting circus. Like the jungle hero Dorothy imitates, the tale is largerAand louderAthan life, but Byars successfully juggles the ingredients of her narrative, including credible characters and dialogue, and humor that at times approaches slapstick. As playful as the plot, the book's design features Cigliano's images of vines and animals that emerge from the gutter and run off the pages, as well as a recurrent reproduction of Dorothy's yell ("AHHHHHH-AHH-AHH...") that swings across the page and grows in type size with each subsequent utterance. This smooth if wild ride should attract readers of both gendersAand perhaps, if read aloud, even a pet or two. Ages 7-10.
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- PublisherDemco Media
- ISBN 10 0606257268
- ISBN 13 9780606257268
- BindingLibrary Binding
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