{"id":41016,"date":"2022-05-02T20:02:22","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T01:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=41016"},"modified":"2022-05-02T20:02:22","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T01:02:22","slug":"review-of-otto-a-palindrama-jon-agee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=41016","title":{"rendered":"Review of Otto: A Palindrama, Jon Agee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/otto_large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/otto_large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"368\" height=\"499\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/otto_large.jpg 368w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/otto_large-221x300.jpg 221w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 368px) 100vw, 368px\" \/><\/a><em>Otto<\/p>\n<p>A Palindrama<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Jon Agee<\/p>\n<p>Dial Books for Young Readers, 2021.  144 pages.<br \/>\nReview written April 23, 2022, from a library book<br \/>\nStarred Review<\/p>\n<p>This book is just so silly.  But it&#8217;s irresistible if you like palindromes at all.  I was sitting and chuckling over it in my office, and had to bring it out and share, which got my coworkers laughing, too.<\/p>\n<p>This is a kid&#8217;s full-length graphic novel &#8212; in which the only printed text that appears are entirely palindromes.  The result is very silly &#8212; but it all actually makes sense!<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the 200 palindromes that appear:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Was it a rat I saw?<\/p>\n<p>No, Son.<\/p>\n<p>Nate Bittnagel, elegant Tibetan.<\/p>\n<p>[In a museum] Gustav Klimt milk vats?  Ug!<\/p>\n<p>[On a tombstone] Evil, atonal, racy Carla.  Not alive.<\/p>\n<p>Eva, can I stab bats in a cave?<\/p>\n<p>No, Don.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m Al, a slob.  My symbol: Salami!<\/p>\n<p>Too hot to hoot.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This all happens while Otto is looking for his dog, Pip.  And of course it&#8217;s the pictures that make it all make sense. It&#8217;s all extremely silly, but a whole lot of fun.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll have some more Palindrome Days in March 2023, so this may be the perfect book to pull out for a program.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jonagee.com\/\">JonAgee.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/\">penguinrandomhouse.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0147513499\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\">Sonderbooks<\/a> at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Fiction\/otto.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Fiction\/otto.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Disclosure: I am an Amazon Affiliate, and will earn a small percentage if you order a book on Amazon after clicking through from my site.<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer:  I am a professional librarian, but the views expressed are solely my own, and in no way represent the official views of my employer or of any committee or group of which I am part.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"none\" data-via=\"Sonderbooks\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>What did you think of this book?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Otto A Palindrama by Jon Agee Dial Books for Young Readers, 2021. 144 pages. Review written April 23, 2022, from a library book Starred Review This book is just so silly. But it&#8217;s irresistible if you like palindromes at all. I was sitting and chuckling over it in my office, and had to bring it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,14,9,37,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-fiction-review","category-delightfully-silly","category-fantasy","category-graphic-novel","category-starred-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41016"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41218,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41016\/revisions\/41218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}