Rhymes with Claire
Rhymes with Claire
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Aladdin
Annotation: A parrot with a penchant for rhyming transforms one young girl’s day into an unexpectedly awesome adventure in this swee... more
 
Reviews: 1
Catalog Number: #181973
Format: Publisher's Hardcover
Publisher: Aladdin
Copyright Date: 2019
Edition Date: 2019 Release Date: 04/23/19
Pages: 1 volume (unpaged)
ISBN: 1-481-47097-3
ISBN 13: 978-1-481-47097-1
Dewey: E
LCCN: 2018955241
Dimensions: 26 cm
Language: English
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Kirkus Reviews

Claire has unwittingly adopted a magic bird whose rhymes transform things—for better or for worse—in this second installment by Thompson (Rhymes with Doug, 2016).Doug, a white, redheaded boy, rushes to school to warn his friend Claire, a black girl with small afro puffs, about Otto, a small green bird with a strange magical power. Otto likes to rhyme, and when he rhymes, things happen. "DOUG SLUG" turns Doug into a slug. Since Claire is now the object of Otto's rhyming frenzy, the two friends' adventures with the bird involve fun at a fair, a pair of baby bears, the bears' dangerous mommas in a lair, and escape on a mare. The digital illustrations are cartoonlike and brightly colored, with some close-ups, some vignettes, and some full spreads. Once Claire, Doug, and Otto return from their adventure, Otto elicits "care" from Claire and a "hug" from Doug. At the end of the book, an older boy named Dale asks to try the magic bird, and he is turned into a whale. The plot, such as it is, is structured around the haphazard sequence of rhymes, and although the premise is mildly intriguing, there is neither enough story nor enough humor to keep readers engaged.There are better books about rhyming, friendship, and magic to be found. (Picture book. 3-6)

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Reading Level: 2.0
Interest Level: K-3
Lexile: 310L

A parrot with a penchant for rhyming transforms one young girl’s day into an unexpectedly awesome adventure in this sweet and silly follow-up to Rhymes with Doug!

Otto, the rhyming parrot, is causing a little bit of trouble for Doug’s friend Claire. Claire brings Otto to school and the little feathered fellow, who rhymed Doug’s name with everything from mug to pug to bug, uses Claire’s moniker as a jumping off point. All starts off innocently enough: fair and share, but then takes a decidedly more dangerous turn from bear to flare! How can one little parrot cause so much trouble?


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