Free Kid to Good Home
$16.75
- Paperback
112 pages
- Release Date
1 July 2022
Summary
A comic-style chapter book about sibling rivalry and a child’s impulse to run away from home—and come back again!
“When my potato-faced baby brother arrived, I realized I needed a new family. No one seemed to mind when I packed my bag. I took a box and used my best handwriting to write ‘FREE KID’, then waited for some new parents to take me home.”
Waiting in a box like an abandoned pet and encountering the passersby changes the girl’s perspective. At the end o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781776574513 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1776574516 |
| Author: | Hiroshi Ito, Cathy Hirano |
| Publisher: | Gecko Press |
| Imprint: | Gecko Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 1 July 2022 |
| Weight: | 218g |
| Dimensions: | 144mm x 204mm |
| Audience Age: | 5-9 |
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Critics Review
“an instant classic.”
– Children’s Publishers Favorite Reads of 2022, Publishers Weekly, US“Ito uses words and pictures with equal skill to craft this hilariously willful little visionary.”
– The New York Times“a light, engaging tale that will appeal to comic book fans and all young readers who have secretly (or not so secretly) resented the arrival of a potato-faced baby to the family.”
– The School Reading List“young readers…will be rewarded by getting to know this can-do narrator.”
– The Horn BookHiroshi Ito
Hiroshi Ito was born in Tokyo, Japan, and graduated from Waseda University with a degree in education. He began creating picture books while still a student and has since published many award-winning books.
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