Reviews for Green Wilma
Horn Book
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Fiction: PB Wilma wakes up one morning and finds herself to be green and very froglike. She relishes the role as she hops about, catching flies with her long tongue. The offbeat humor in the artwork adds to the exaggerated tone of the story in rhyme. Horn Rating: Recommended, satisfactory in style, content, and/or illustration. Reviewed by: bc (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
School Library Journal
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PreS-Gr 2-- When little Wilma awakens one morning, she discovers that she has turned green and developed a fondness for eating flies. Her horrified parents don't know how to deal with her, so she hops to school. There she demonstrates her dodgeball skills, but gets in trouble after flicking her tongue on the teacher's nose and chasing flies through the lunchroom. Of course the adventure turns out to be a dream--but the dreamer, as it turns out, is a frog, not a girl. Arnold's breezy humor shines through in the illustrations, especially in his goggle-eyed people who must be the stuff of amphibian nightmares. The rhymed narration is adequate, but the amusing tale's success derives from the unexpected twist and the slapstick comedy embodied in the pictures. --Kathy Piehl, Mankato State University, MN (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Ages 4-8. "One morning Wilma woke up green, and much to her surprise / She sat up on her bed and croaked and started eating flies." So begins this rhythmic, rollicking story about the chaos that is caused at school by a green student with a distinct hop in her step and a yen for that tasty little fly atop her teacher's nose. Full of goggle-eyed characters bouncing off the walls, the illustrations are as silly and outrageous as the story. Fast, funny, and froggy, Green Wilma is guaranteed to be a hit with the story hour silly set. (Reviewed Mar. 1, 1993)0803713134Annie Ayres
Publishers Weekly
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There's something decidedly odd about Wilma: at breakfast, her parents are startled by their offspring's request to ``Pass the bugs''; later, she shocks her teacher by snagging a ``tasty little fly'' with her long pink tongue. Most noticeably, however, Wilma's skin has turned a deep, froggy green, a fact that her polka-dot T-shirt and beribboned blond hair cannot conceal. In this strange and gleeful story, it's surprisingly easy being green--the extraordinary heroine is the envy of her elementary-school class. Arnold's rhyming text is as buoyant as his leaf-colored, rubbery-limbed protagonist; his roly-poly, bug-eyed characters perfectly suit the story's quirky theme and manic action. Squiggly, threadlike lines--suggestive of handmade paper--cover every surface in the richly colored illustrations, subtly adding an unusual softness and depth. Though some youngsters may be puzzled by the book's conclusion, this gifted picture book creator ( No Jumping on the Bed! ; The Signpainter's Assistant ) has taken his talents in a quirky, unconventional direction with this tale, which takes daydreaming to new and zany heights. Ages 4-8. A Children's BOMC selection. (Mar.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Book list
From Booklist, Copyright © American Library Association. Used with permission.
Ages 4-8. "One morning Wilma woke up green, and much to her surprise / She sat up on her bed and croaked and started eating flies." So begins this rhythmic, rollicking story about the chaos that is caused at school by a green student with a distinct hop in her step and a yen for that tasty little fly atop her teacher's nose. Full of goggle-eyed characters bouncing off the walls, the illustrations are as silly and outrageous as the story. Fast, funny, and froggy, Green Wilma is guaranteed to be a hit with the story hour silly set. ~--Annie Ayres
