Platypus and the Lucky Day - Softcover

Chris Riddell

3.93

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9780140567786: Platypus and the Lucky Day

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014056778X ISBN 13: 9780140567786

Publisher: Puffin Books, 2003

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About the Author:

Chris Riddell was a student of Raymond Briggs at Brighton. He now works in many areas of illustration, including political cartoons for The Observer. He has illustrated many children's books, texts by other writers as well as his own. SOMETHING ELSE (by Kathryn Cave), won the 1997 UNESCO Prize and was shortlisted for the Greenaway Medal and the Smarties Prize. CASTLE DIARY (by Richard Platt), was shortlisted for the Greenaway Medal in 2000. Chris lives in Brighton.

From School Library Journal:

PreSchool-Grade 1-"Today is my lucky day," the duck-billed hero declares just before his kite gets stuck in a tree. Then, attempts to paint pictures are ruined by wind and rain. When he trips and falls on his way home, he decides to go back to bed where he finds a banana and his favorite stuffed animal. Cheered on by these discoveries, Platypus tackles his closet, a veritable treasure trove of beloved toys. A ride on his go-cart brings the story full circle; he crashes into a tree, causing the kite to fall and land in his lap, and he realizes that, "Today is my lucky day, after all!" Riddell's clean and clear ink-and-watercolor pictures perfectly depict the madcap adventures of this lovable hero who will always see the glass as half full. Pair this story with Judith Viorst's Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (Atheneum, 1972) for a different way of handling a day when everything goes wrong. Platypus gets an A+ for attitude.
Bina Williams, Bridgeport Public Library, CT
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