Staff Pick
With whimsical, masterful black-and-white art accented with flashes of color, Steve Light draws a lively follow-up to Have You Seen My Dragon? Kids will love looking for the lost monster — and while they may not notice, they'll be learning all about shapes along the way. Recommended By Gigi L., Powells.com
Synopses & Reviews
In a follow-up to Steve Light's highly praised
Have You Seen My Dragon?, the county fair is filled with shapes — and somewhere among them a monster is waiting to be found.
A little girl gallivants through a county fair, searching for her furry friend. Readers will surely spot the friendly monster as well as twenty shapes, identified here by their proper names — trapezoids, ellipses, kites, and more — hidden among iconic fair attractions from the fun house to the Ferris wheel. Maybe the monster is judging the pies? Or perhaps he's at the monster-truck rally? Youngsters will be so mesmerized by Steve Light's masterful pen-and-ink illustrations, decorated with vivid splashes of color, they won't even realize they've learned how to spot a nonagon while looking for a monster.
Review
"Young readers will be happily engaged in searching for the monster, and finding and identifying the shapes, all the while enjoying the excitement and fun of the fair. Gently educational and greatly entertaining."
Kirkus Reviews
Review
"A fun-filled interactive outing with an unintrusive math lesson to boot."
School Library Journal
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"Frolicsome fun with some sneaky education thrown in."
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About the Author
Steve Light is the author-illustrator of The Christmas Giant, Zephyr Takes Flight, and Have You Seen My Dragon? He lives with his wife and cat in Manhattan, where the closest fair is in Queens.