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| Two Bad Ants Contributor(s): Van Allsburg, Chris |
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ISBN: 0395486688 ISBN-13: 9780395486689 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Retail: $18.95 OUR PRICE: $13.17 You Save Over 30% Buy 100 or more: OUR PRICE: $12.70 Save More! Buy 200 or more: OUR PRICE: $12.13 Save Even More!! Binding Type: School And Library Published: October 1988 Annotation: The tale of two ants who decide to leave the safety of the others to venture into a danger-laden kitchen. "Children will be fascinated by the ant-eye view thatVan Allsburg provides of common everyday items . . ".--Booklist. Full color. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Animals | Insects, Spiders, Etc. |
| LC Subject: - Ants; Fiction. |
| Dewey: [E] |
| LCCN: 88012988 |
| Lexile Level: 780 |
| Academic/Grade Level: Grade 3-4, Age 8-9 |
| Book type: Juvenile Fiction |
| Physical Information: 12.00" H x 8.50" W x 0.35" (0.95 lbs) 31 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 5548 Reading Level: 4.7 Interest Level: Lower Grades Point Value: 0.5 |
| Scholastic Reading Counts Info |
| Quiz #: Q11930 Reading Level: 3.9 Interest Level: Grades K-2 Point Value: 2.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The three-time Caldecott medalist tells the tale of two ants who decide to leave the safety of the others to venture into a danger-laden kitchen. |
Contributor Bio(s): IV>Chris Van Allsburg is the winner of two Caldecott Medals, for Jumanji and The Polar Express, as well as the recipient of a Caldecott Honor Book for The Garden of Abdul Gasazi. The author and illustrator of numerous picture books for children, he has also been awarded the Regina Medal for lifetime achievement in children’s literature. In 1982, Jumanji won the National Book Award and in 1996, it was made into a popular feature film. Chris Van Allsburg was formerly an instructor at the Rhode Island School of Design. He lives in Rhode Island with his wife and two children. |
Reviewed by Publishers Weekly Reviews (PW Reviews 1988 September #5) In this new book by Van Allsburg, twice a winner of the Caldecott Medal, the theme of an outsider's point-of-view (touched upon most recently in his The Stranger ) is expanded. Accustomed to the orderly and uneventful life in the ant hole, all the ants enter the bizarre world of a kitchen in the search for sugar crystals for the queen. Two greedy ants stay behind in the sugar bowl, eating their fill and then falling asleep. Their slumbers end when a giant scoop drops them into a sea of boiling brown coffee. Further mishaps include a heated stay in the toaster, a hazardous swirl in the garbage disposal and a zap in an electrical outlet. When the ant troops return, the two bad ants gladly rejoin their friends and head for the safety of home. In this work, the hazards of nonconformity are clear. The narration has the feel of early newsreels where the broadcaster described unknown phenomena in clipped, clinical language: ``A strange force passed through the wet ants. They were stunned senseless and blown out of the holes like bullets from a gun.'' The resilient ants and the eerie landscapes are portrayed in strong black-and-white images, enriched by deep brown, purple, slate, gold and steely blue colors; Van Allsburg, playing with perspective, creates marvelous contrasts and images. But although Two Bad Ants is visually different from its predecessors, it shares the same strong style, dazzling artwork and whimsy that characterizes all of the artist's work. Ages 3-8. (Oct.) Copyright 1988 Cahners Business Information. |
Reviewed by School Library Journal Reviews (SLJ Reviews 1988 November) Gr 1-5 In this brief tale of the adventures of two runaway ants, Van Allsburg once again gives children a visual puzzle to solvein this case identifying common household appliances from an ant's point of view. When a troop of ants are sent to retrieve sugar crystals from a kitchen, two ants stay behind to feast and go to sleep in the sugar bowl. When morning comes they are successively stirred into a cup of coffee, almost swallowed, toasted with an english muffin, whirled through a garbage disposal, and stunned senseless in an electrical outlet. While some children will enjoy identifying the highly magnified objects, others will wonder how the ants have managed to survive any one of these disasters. The truants return home in one piece, and the last few lines supply a pallid and oddly moralistic conclusion to the story. The book is a visual tour-de-force. The highly linear, hard-edged drawings look like fine etchings which have been magnifieda technique which enhances the sense of being reduced to ant size. The colors applied in flat fields are primarily limited to earth tones and gray, combined with touches of pure white and black in lines and fields of almost luminous intensity. The intensity of the visual experience overpowers the story, which is a flat, rather cold vehicle, an excuse for a visual game which will appeal to the intellect of children older than typical picture book readers. Eleanor K. MacDonald, Beverly Hills Public Lib . Copyright 1988 Cahners Business Information. |
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