Over-Scheduled Andrew
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Publisher Description
Debate. French film club. Bagpipes. Can Andrew do it all? From the award-winning creator of The Most Magnificent Thing comes a book about an charming chickadee who learns – with the help of a “deer” friend - that busy isn’t always better.
Andrew loves putting on plays so he decides to join the drama club at school. Determined to make his performance the best it can be, he joins the debate club to practice his public speaking. He signs up for dance and karate to help with his coordination. Then he's asked to play for the tennis team and edit the school newspaper. Before long he's learning to play the bagpipes, attending Spanish classes and joining the French film club. Suddenly Andrew doesn't have time for anything or anyone else, not even his best friend Edie. And he definitely doesn't have time to sleep. Will Andrew figure out how to balance all his favorite activities and his best friend at the same time? A hilarious look at over-scheduling, a common issue many kids today face.
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Andrew, a school-going chickadee, has developed a problem common to many kids (and adults) too many commitments are leading to burnout. It starts innocently: surely joining the debate club would help his drama performances. And why not karate and ballet to improve his dancing? Luckily, Andrew's friend Edie (previously seen in 2014's Edie's Ensembles) helps him get back to a better place and to bed to catch up on sleep. Working in digital media, Spires gives her animal cast the polished look of Plasticine figurines. While the premise of the overcommitted child has been explored before in books like Roz Chast's Too Busy Marco and Peter H. Reynolds's Too Few Of Me, Spires makes it her own, bringing a playful touch to her writing and artwork. In fact, insofar as this is a message book, the real takeaway is less "know your limits" than "nothing ventured, nothing gained." By book's end, Andrew has returned to his love of acting and cleared his schedule, but he's also become a cinephile something he might never have discovered without a stint in French film club. Ages 4 8.
