Balloon Toons: Rick & Rack and the Great Outdoors - Hardcover

Long, Ethan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1609050347 ISBN 13: 9781609050344

Publisher: Blue Apple Books, 2010

Synopsis

With simple text and cartoon artwork, Balloon Toons are the the perfect way to engage and encourage new readers. Award-winning and up-and-coming cartoonists lend their inimitable and illustrative talents to entertaining stories kids will enjoy again and again.

Best-selling author/illustrator Ethan Long makes his Balloon Toons debut with the story of Rick & Rack, twofriends who embark on three hilarious (mis)adventures in the great outdoors.

About this title

About the Author

Ethan Long grew up in Pennsylvania and attended the Ringling School of Art and Design. His early list of prominent clients included Nickelodeon Studios, Scholastic, Barnes and Noble and Harcourt. Ethan's career then led him into children's books. He also decided to try his hand at an animated television series and created "Tasty Time With ZeFronk!", a short-form animated preschool series currently airing on Playhouse Disney. His work has earned many awards and has been included in the prestigious shows of the Society of Illustrators Los Angeles and the Society of Illustrators New York. Ethan lives in Florida with his wife and three children. The author lives in FL.

Reviews

This graphic novel takes beginning readers through three very short and humorous stories about a raccoon and a moose who explore the fine art of fishing, try to puzzle out mysterious paw prints in the woods, and stay dry in a canoe. These anthropomorphic buddies have cartoony builds of similar size and speak in simple and accessible words that are printed with clarity in generously sized speech balloons. Rick is a worrier, while Rack is more confident and (usually) more skilled at whichever pastime they undertake, allowing the intended audience to see themselves, very likely, in one or the other character. This entry in the new Balloon Toons series (with a hefty build similar to the successful TOON Books line) puts the comics medium to good use: tracking the visual elements of the story will help emerging readers decode the text with ease. The full-color palette is simple, and the large panels will make access even easier for inexperienced comics readers. Grades 1-3. --Francisca Goldsmith

Edition details

• Publisher: Blue Apple Books
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1609050347
• ISBN 13: 9781609050344
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 40