Sugar and Snails
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Description
A novel twist to a classic rhyme.
Who says that little girls are made of 鈥渟ugar and spice and everything nice?鈥� Or that boys are made of 鈥渇rogs and snails and puppy dog tails?鈥� What if girls were made of 鈥渂oats and snails and dinosaur tails?鈥� And little boys of 鈥渇lowers and swings and bumblebee wings?鈥�
When the traditional rhyme just doesn鈥檛 seem to fit the boy and girl visiting their grandpa, he comes up with a list of unusual alternatives. Soon the children are coming up with their own versions that challenge the old stereotypes with a whimsical list of ingredients. To add to the new quirky version are lively illustrations that beautifully capture the children鈥檚 imaginative flights of fancy.
Young readers will delight in the small details of Sonja Wimmer鈥檚 vibrant art, and be inspired to think of their own silly examples of what ingredients they might be made of themselves.
Reviews
鈥淩eaders will sense that stereotypes and norms are dissolving with each page turn.鈥�
- Publishers Weekly, 01/08/18
鈥淎 celebration of imagination and the limitlessness of life.鈥�
- Kirkus Reviews, 02/03/18
鈥淎 menagerie of delights.鈥�
- CanLit for Little Canadians, 03/02/18
鈥淔illed with action and imagination.鈥�
- Sal鈥檚 Fiction Addiction, 09/10/18
鈥淩emix[es] traditional assumptions about gender, encouraging readers to think critically about what they鈥檝e been taught in a non-didactic way.鈥�
- The Globe and Mail, 09/20/18
鈥淢ixes clever and inventive rhyme with gorgeous illustrations to turn gender stereotypes upside down.鈥�
- Dear Author, 12/31/18