Uh-Oh Sick!

Adventure of Meno, Elf of Space #4

by Tony DiTerlizzi, Angela DiTerlizzi

Meno be sick! Yamagoo, make Meno better!

I have hot head.
I have drip nose.
I have hurt esophagus.
UH-OH!
You sick! Meno.
Stay in cloud bed under cover.

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens

52 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

#1 New York Times bestselling author and illustrator, Tony DiTerlizzi, has been creating children’s books for twenty years. From fanciful picture books like The Broken Ornament and The Spider & The Fly (a Caldecott Honor book), to chapter books like Kenny and The Dragon and The Search for WondLa, DiTerlizzi imbues his stories with rich imagination. With Holly Black, he created the middle-grade series, The Spiderwick Chronicles, which has sold over 20 million copies, been adapted into a feature film, and translated in over thirty countries. He teamed up with Lucasfilm to retell the original Star Wars trilogy as a picture book and his collaboration with celebrated author Mo Willems created the bestseller The Story of Diva & Flea. The Norman Rockwell museum’s retrospective, “Never Abandon Imagination”, featured artwork from the beginning of DiTerlizzi’s career as a contributing artist for Dungeons & Dragons and broke attendance records. He has been featured in Time magazine, USA Today, CNN, PBS, NPR the BBC and The Today Show.

Reviews

[Jon Nakapalau · Rating 5 out of 5]

Meno is sick! Help Meno get better - read!

[Katherine Cowley · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have mixed feelings on this picture book. On the one hand, there is not a grammatically correct sentence in the entire book. It is unclear to me if that is because the authors are imitating children just learning to speak, or imitating foreigners who don't speak English very well. Neither choice does very much for me. So every time I read the book aloud, I fixed the sentences, making them proper English.

My children did love this book. My 18 month old had a cold, and seeing Meno with a cold get better just made her happy. It's also quite funny how the wish-granter has an earache and keeps granting the wrong wish--instead of making Meno better she brings a sweater, an Irish setter, and other things before she finally solves the problem.

[Christopher Louis · Rating 4 out of 5]

The fourth book in the series - another hilarious read presented in Feverish Meno-Color. Best line of the book "Try bowl of liquid chicken".

[Tara · Rating 4 out of 5]

Meno is so cute and you have to love when Eddie Vedder appears in a picture book!

[Rick · Rating 4 out of 5]

Oh no! Little Meno is sick. What will we do?!

How about some ... liquid chicken? Say what?

Just bizarre enough to be enchantingly endearing. Wonderful! :D

[Rose Rosetree · Rating 5 out of 5]

Welcome to a specialized world, where characters speak their own language. And to the rest of us, the words may not make much sense..

For example:

I drink.
I still not better.

Try bowl of liquid chicken.

Or later:

No, Wishi.
Make Meno better!

CLEARLY, THIS BOOK IS FOR A VERY SPECIALIZED READERSHIP

Ones who speak a way more sophisticated version of English than this Goodreads Book Reviewer.

Perhaps it's meant for readers who consider this book satirical in some way, a way that's way over my head. (Personally, I love satirical books, but not ones where the characters speak their own clever brand of baby talk.)

Giving a rating in honor of the intended readership, how about FIVE STARS?

[Steven R. McEvoy · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the 4th book in the Adventure of Meno series, written about a boy who lives in a house in the clouds. The series is presented in bright, feverish, meno-color. The illustrations are fun, the story is written often as a child would speak with slightly off speech or syntax, but that is part of the fun. In this volume Meno is sick and Wishi his friend is sick also, and she is not hearing the wish to make Meno better correctly - to hilarious results. The story is wonderful and entertaining; the illustrations are fun bright and vibrant.

[Jim Dewald · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book is not a good book. Mt 4 year old and I both hated it. Meno and friends talk like babies, or bad stereotypes. This cannot be good for anyone hoping to help their children acquire language skills.

[MissInformation · Rating 1 out of 5]

ok-ish story, but with very poor grammar.

[Sharper1 · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like the Japanese/old school vibe of this one. I'd like to read more of them.