Gumshoe Goose, PrivateEeye (Easy-to-Read, Puffin) - Softcover

Kwitz, Mary DeBall; Ernst, Lisa Campbell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803709234 ISBN 13: 9780803709232

Publisher: Puffin, 1991

Synopsis

Detective Ellery Goose helps his father Inspector Goose solve the case of the hungry kidnapper.

About this title

From School Library Journal

Kindergarten-Grade 2 A seemingly hapless private eye named Gumshoe Goose manages to solve the case of the hungry kidnapper. Nabbing Fat Fox before he eats Baby Chick-Chick and the chick's stolen birthday cake is all in a day's work for the likable, although bumbling, goose. This animal yarn will attract beginning readers who are not quite ready for Quackenbush's ``Miss Mallard'' books (Prentice-Hall). The familiar story is enlivened by amusing, colorful illustrations. The controlled vocabulary does limit the story in terms of interesting or exciting dialogue, as can be found in a similarly plotted picture book, Kasza's The Wolf's Chicken Stew (Putnam, 1987), but the short chapters and predictability of the events should make it a popular item on the beginning reader shelves. Martha Rosen, Edgewood School, Scarsdale, N.Y.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Puffin
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0803709234
• ISBN 13: 9780803709232
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 48