Pop!

by Jason Carter Eaton, Matt Rockefeller (Illustrator)

Overview

A quiet afternoon of blowing bubbles and popping them turns into a Planes, Trains, & Automobiles, (and Helicopters, and Fighter Jets, and Moon Shuttles)-style adventure, as our young protagonist Dewey struggles to pop that one bubble...The Bubble That Got Away.

With luminous, breathtaking art from Matt Rockefeller that evokes both epic adventure and the pleasure of a lazy summer day; and a lively, wry, and suspenseful text from veteran picture book writer Jason Carter Eaton, Pop! is a picture book that will delight readers from cover to cover.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781250210524
Publisher:	First Second
Publication date:	07/03/2018
Sold by:	Macmillan
Format:	eBook
Pages:	40
File size:	23 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Jason Carter Eaton is the bestselling author of numerous children’s books, including Great, Now We’ve Got Barbarians!, The Catawampus Cat, How to Train a Train, How to Track a Truck, and the middle grade novel The Facttracker. Jason currently lives with his family in Westchester, NY where they have popped may awesome bubbles together.

Matt Rockefeller is an illustrator and comic artist from Tucson, AZ who loves to depict places and tell stories through pictures. His work has appeared in a variety of formats, including book covers, picture books, and animation. Recent books include TRAIN from Workman Publishing and the 5 Worlds graphic novel series from Random House, and Pop! with First Second.

Editorial Reviews

06/04/2018
Bespectacled, bubble-blowing Dewey tries to catch and pop all the bubbles he’s blown, and when one gets away from him, his quest progresses from balloon to helicopter to F-16. Eaton doesn’t waste space establishing the situation. “But in almost no time at all it was out of reach again. He’d need to jump higher.” Jumping doesn’t cut it, though, and Dewey comes up with new schemes as fast as the bubble rises—getting his telescope on it, resorting to a nearby elevator, then convincing a (female) pilot to allow him to commandeer her helicopter: “And after some explaining and thanking, it was all his.” Polished artwork by Rockefeller (an illustrator of 5 Worlds 2: The Cobalt Prince) follows the high-altitude pursuit with sunlit clouds, aerial views of the landscape, and sweeping views of the gleaming aircraft themselves. Though Eaton’s (The Catawampus Cat) narration perks right along, with bonus factoids along the way (“He knew F-16s could only go up to 50,000 feet…”), Rockefeller’s images carry the story’s action forward with such force and clarity that nonreaders who admire skyborne transportation can narrate the story themselves—and may want to do it more than once. Ages 4–8. (July)

Publishers Weekly

"Eaton and Rockefeller introduce readers to various forms of transportation with Dewey's mad dash." –Kirkus

"Though Eaton’s...narration perks right along, with bonus factoids along the way...Rockefeller’s images carry the story’s action forward with such force and clarity that nonreaders...can narrate the story themselves..."—Publishers Weekly

From the Publisher

07/01/2018
PreS-Gr 2—"You don't need a friend to blow bubbles." Dewey believes that—he likes to pop all of them himself. But the last one just slips away, and no matter how fast he runs or jumps, from trampoline or jungle gym, it's just inches out of reach. As his telescope tracks its flight toward a "really tall" building in town, Dewey heads upward, traveling first in a slow elevator—then catching a ride in a hot air balloon, a helicopter, plane, jet, and rocket. None reaches the bubble, but Dewey sees its final "pop" through a extraordinarily unusual communication. Drawn and painted digitally, an easily identifiable Dewey with glasses and backpack lives in a world suffused with a soft natural daylight. Images in various sizes with multiple perspectives propel the action of the tale, even a distant bubble seen through Dewey's telescope lens. VERDICT A far-fetched adventure of perseverance and discovery, this book celebrates the joy of sharing new revelations and successes in a suggested general purchase for all libraries.—Mary Elam, Learning Media Services, Plano ISD, TX

School Library Journal

2018-05-14
On a beautiful day, Dewey sits under a shady tree, blowing bubbles by himself. "The best part of blowing bubbles is popping them," he declares. One bubble gets away, and Dewey decides to give chase. As the bubble floats away, Dewey first jumps, then clambers to the top of a jungle gym and then to the rooftop in an effort to catch the errant bubble. His quest takes him to the top of a skyscraper, then into a hot air balloon, and then onto a helicopter, then a biplane, then a zooming F-16; not high enough! He'll never be able to catch it, unless…yes! It's the day of the moon launch, and Dewey hitches a ride on a rocket, landing on the moon. In his spacesuit, the lack of gravity allows him to reach high, but the bubble remains just out of reach. Defeated, he returns home. It's bedtime, but Dewey can't resist one last look through his telescope—which yields a big surprise. Eaton and Rockefeller introduce readers to various forms of transportation with Dewey's mad dash. Graphic panels speed readers through the story, but, rather like a bubble, it's ultimately insubstantial. Dewey has olive skin and black hair, and among the aviators he encounters are a confident older black man and a young white woman.A swift and breathless tour. (Picture book. 3-6)

Kirkus Reviews