{"id":732,"date":"2009-09-08T21:25:58","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T01:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=732"},"modified":"2010-02-11T20:22:39","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T00:22:39","slug":"review-of-bubble-trouble-by-margaret-mahy-and-polly-dunbar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=732","title":{"rendered":"Review of Bubble Trouble, by Margaret Mahy and Polly Dunbar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/bubble_trouble.jpg\" alt=\"bubble_trouble\" title=\"bubble_trouble\" width=\"210\" height=\"239\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-733\" \/><em>Bubble Trouble<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Margaret Mahy<\/p>\n<p>illustrated by Polly Dunbar<\/p>\n<p>Clarion Books, New York, 2009.  37 pages.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Standouts2010.html\">Sonderbooks Stand-out 2010<\/a>: #5 Picture Books<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a silly story that&#8217;s simply good fun to read.  It&#8217;s a mild tongue twister with a nice rhythm that makes a lovely read-aloud.  In fact, the day after I first read it, I used the book as an opener for a baby program.  I half-expected the babies to lose interest, since the words were mostly over their heads.  However, the whole room &#8212; parents and babies &#8212; seemed to enjoy the book.  The sounds of the words were enough for the babies, and the parents seemed to enjoy it, too.  I&#8217;m going to use it again this week in a storytime for preschoolers.<\/p>\n<p>The story is simple.  Mabel blows a bubble, and her baby brother gets trapped inside and floats away.  Various people with melodious names and activities see the bubble and follow, to the dramatic conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>This book should not be read silently!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0547074212\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\">Sonderbooks<\/a> at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Picture_Books\/bubble_trouble.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Picture_Books\/bubble_trouble.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bubble Trouble by Margaret Mahy illustrated by Polly Dunbar Clarion Books, New York, 2009. 37 pages. Sonderbooks Stand-out 2010: #5 Picture Books Here&#8217;s a silly story that&#8217;s simply good fun to read. It&#8217;s a mild tongue twister with a nice rhythm that makes a lovely read-aloud. In fact, the day after I first read 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":[14,15,59,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delightfully-silly","category-picture-book-review","category-readalouds","category-stand-outs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732","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=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}