Picnic - Hardcover

McCully, Emily Arnold

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060240997 ISBN 13: 9780060240998

Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books, 1984

Synopsis

A little mouse gets lost on the way to a family picnic.

About this title

About the Author:

Distinguished author and illustrator Emily Arnold McCully has won many of children's books highest honors, including the Christopher Medal and the National Book Award, as well as the Caldecott Medal, which she received in 1993 for Mirette on the High Wire.

She is also the creator of the popular I Can Rad Books about Pip and her Grandmas Sal and Nan: The Grandma Mix-Up, Grandmas at the Lake, Grandmas at Bat, and Grandmas Trick-Or-Treat.

Ms. McCully divides her time between New York City and Chatham, New York.

From Booklist:

PreS-K. In this slightly expanded version of a 1984 book, with enlarged illustrations, a merry, chaotic family of mice set out for a picnic in their red pickup. As they bounce along the bumpy dirt road, Little Bitty falls off the back of the truck. Accompanied only by a pink stuffed animal, Bitty cries a little, forages a little, and waits a little. Meanwhile, the parents discover that Bitty is missing, and all the mice search the picnic site frantically, pile into the truck, and then head back down the road, where they find her waiting. Every child who has felt lost, even for a moment, will savor the happy reunion. Page layout varies from broad, double-page paintings of a single scene to several smaller pictures on a white page. Defined by McCully's precise, energetic line drawings and brightened with washes in warm, rich colors, the ink-and-watercolor artwork will appeal to children and adults alike. With a short text and sun-dappled illustrations, this book captures the feeling of the best summer days: so joyful, so splendid that even the sad tale of a little lost mouse is sure to end happily. Carolyn Phelan
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About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0060240997
• ISBN 13: 9780060240998
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32