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Ordinary Oscar
Hardcover, 24 pages
Published
September 1st 2010
by Tiger Tales
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Oscar Slimeglider wants to be famous. He is tired of being ordinary Oscar. He's bored with a snails diet and greenish-grayish-brownish color. He expresses this to his parents and they simply reply, “Your 25 brothers and sisters never complain.”
Oscar ventures out to get advice from the Wise Old Snail. He asks Oscar if he can paint, dance or play the guitar and Oscar shakes head. He can't. So desperate to become famous Oscar cries out to Fairy Godsnail. He is granted 3 wishes. You will have to re...more
Oscar ventures out to get advice from the Wise Old Snail. He asks Oscar if he can paint, dance or play the guitar and Oscar shakes head. He can't. So desperate to become famous Oscar cries out to Fairy Godsnail. He is granted 3 wishes. You will have to re...more
Oscar Slimeglider wants to be famous. He is tired of being ordinary Oscar. He's bored with a snails diet and greenish-grayish-brownish color. He expresses this to his parents and they simply reply, “Your 25 brothers and sisters never complain.”
Oscar ventures out to get advice from the Wise Old Snail. He asks Oscar if he can paint, dance or play the guitar and Oscar shakes head. He can't. So desperate to become famous Oscar cries out to Fairy Godsnail. He is granted 3 wishes. You will have to re...more
Oscar ventures out to get advice from the Wise Old Snail. He asks Oscar if he can paint, dance or play the guitar and Oscar shakes head. He can't. So desperate to become famous Oscar cries out to Fairy Godsnail. He is granted 3 wishes. You will have to re...more
The details are hilarious--the titles on the Wise Old Snail's bookshelves alone will make school age kids giggle.However,the story's pacing is not what it could have been. The three wishes sequence is too hurried, and though the addendum makes for a satisfying conclusion, I'd have liked more action in the middle. Still, this is enjoyable and I hope that Adkins and Hearn will do more work together, they make a good team.
The pacing felt off in this book, and the idea of a snail wanting to be spectacular reminded me of another book that dealt with this same themeThe Biggest House in the World. It just really didn't work for me. The illustrations are hysterical and probably the best part of the whole thing.
Jun 19, 2012
Library Quine
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Shelves:
junior-picture-books,
british-books-challenge
A fun tale of a snail who wants to be different, but finds being ordinary is better. The story and the illustrations are fabulous (especially the illustrations). I would be a fun readloud in storytimes, I found the newspaper item a little long, and feel I'd need to just read selected highlights in a stoytime situation.
Oscar tires of his boring life until he meets his Fairy Godsnail. When she grants him 3 wishes, his resulting adventure causes him to question if life is so terrible after all. Good for early elementary (perhaps PreK Preschool)...and a nice starting point for a discussion on being happy with who we are as individuals.
This book could definitely be used to tell children to love who they are and they do not have to be anything more or anything like someone else. The book could also teach children about the genres of fairytales different from the usual stories like Cinderella.
I agree with another reviewer on here that the pacing is a little strange with this book, but it was very cute. Might be better for young, elementary kids than preschool storytime.
Another cute story that celebrates being yourself... yet a little bit like Lauren Child.
Jun 19, 2012
Melissa
marked it as to-read
May 31, 2012
Maddypictures
marked it as to-read
Mar 20, 2012
Erica
marked it as to-read
Nov 17, 2011
Hilary
rated it
2 of 5 stars
Shelves:
snails,
bugs,
birds,
size-scale,
being-different,
picture-book,
storytime,
elementary-grades
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