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Gus and Gertie arrive at the Animals' Winter Olympics with dreams of winning gold as Antarctica's first synchronized swimming team, but the missing event is the least of their worries when athletes' lucky charms--including Gertie's--turn up missing. 10,000 first printing.
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Joan Lowery Nixon is the author of more than 100 books, including The Other Side of Dark and the Orphan Train Adventures series. She is also the four-time winner of the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Allan Poe Best Juvenile Mystery Award. She lives in Houston, Texas. Diane deGroat, illustrator of nearly 100 books for children, is also the author-illustrator of the Annie Pitts books and the popular stories about Gilbert the opossum. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.
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Grade 2-3-In this entry in the beginning chapter-book series, the penguin pals are Winter Olympic hopefuls in the synchronized swimming event. Upon learning that this event is a Summer Olympic sport, Gus and Gertie use the Polaroid pictures they've been taking to detect the thieves who have been stealing athletes' lucky charms, and then use their sliding and swimming skills to apprehend the malefactors after a madcap chase. Language arts teachers will appreciate Nixon's use of alliterative adjectives to describe the multitude of characters in her anthropomorphic cast, from the "gangly goose," "splendid swan," and "raggedy rabbit" to the "downright daffy dingoes." While the characters mimic human life, they retain some natural traits, from the prickly hedgehog official to the tiny information mouse. This story is fun and offers a challenge to sift through many details. DeGroat's bright watercolor illustrations reflect the bustling winter scenes, with animals that convey lots of emotion as they mimic human activity, reinforcing the text with charm and pizzazz. Let Gus and Gertie join the ranks of Pinky and Rex and Cam Jansen as a bridge from easy-readers to chapter books.
Laura Scott, Baldwin Public Library, Birmingham, MI
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- PublisherChronicle Books
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 158717099X
- ISBN 13 9781587170997
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages48
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