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Rhyme Crime

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From the creator of Splat! comes more playful, irreverent, kid-empowering fun—with a rhyming twist.
In this buoyant rhyming romp, words have gone mysteriously missing: Who stole Marlow's happy smile, and replaced it with a crocodile? Who swiped Dingle's sneeze—aaaaachooo!—and left a stinky cheese? The thief took Tumble's orange, and switched it with a . . . with a . . . Hey, does anything rhyme with orange? No? Aha! Could this be the rhyming robber's undoing? Guided by bright, clever artwork, kids are empowered to put the final clues together for themselves to solve this silly rhyme crime, then guess at the name-nabber's next sneaky move. Splendid, satisfying, inspiring.
"Rhyming wordplay. . . [and] even more hysterical laughter." Kirkus
"The creator of Splat! offers more page-turn-based tomfoolery"Booklist
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    • Kirkus

      February 15, 2018
      Robbery here comes with rhyming wordplay. "Once upon a time, / a thief committed a crime. / Everything he stole was replaced with a rhyme." The thief takes pink, fuzzy Hammy's hat and swaps it with a cat. The Silly Putty-like Marlow's smile is replaced with a crocodile. As each new heist is announced on recto, the following verso reveals a new rhyming substitute that makes little sense, resulting in ridiculous fun. Matte colors in primary hues against a complementary solid background feature a motley assortment of black-outlined, googly-eyed, monsterlike characters from which various items are stolen by an equally strange-looking bandit dressed in jailbird black-and-white stripes. Tootle, a blue creature with green nose and limbs set against a pink backdrop, loses its dog, which is replaced by a barking log. Blue, birdlike Gertie's pretty rainbow house, set against a sunny yellow background, is replaced by a giant gray mouse. The unexpected silliness of each larcenous conclusion will have kids stealing giggles and groans as this crook pilfers the normal order of sensible language on the way to an absurd, rhyming finale. Unable to find any match for Tumble's orange ("Borange? Dorange? Porange?"), the burglar, momentarily stumped, is finally arrested and taken to jail--but an escape leaves readers to anticipate a new series of rhyming offenses. Multiple readings might encourage new illogical rhyming sequences for even more hysterical laughter. (Picture book. 4-8)

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 16, 2018
      As he did in Splat!, Burgerman takes a wacky premise and dashes with itâwith panache. The rhyming ruckus gets rolling when, "Once upon a time, a thief committed a crime./ Everything he stole was replaced with a rhyme." Initially pictured only as a spindly hand in silhouette reaching into vividly colored pages, the villain targets a gaggle of cockeyed characters, first replacing Hammy's brand-new hat with a cat (revealed by a flip of the page). Burgerman ratchets up the visual absurdity in subsequent page turns, as Gumpop's head becomes a slice of bread, Moomoo's fancy clogs are exchanged for a pair of frogs, Dingle's sneeze morphs into a wedge of stinky cheese, and a crocodile appears on Marlow's face in place of his smile. The author playfully derails the rhyming guessing game when the bandit attempts to swap out an orange forâ¦? The culprit's futile efforts to find a rhyming replacement produce a string of fun-to-say nonsense words, which likely will inspire kids to chime in with their own variations. Another spontaneous, wryly subversive offering from Burgerman. Ages 3â5. Agent: Steven Malk, Writers House.

    • Booklist

      March 1, 2018
      Grades K-2 The creator of Splat! (2017) offers more page-turn-based tomfoolery, but this time with a more literary bent. Visible only as shadowy hands in most of the loudly colored, simply drawn scenes, a thief swaps a series of items for others that, it turns out, rhyme?a hat is replaced by a cat, a pair of clogs by frogs, a happy smile by a crocodile. Occasional hints ( Gumpop's lovely head / became a slice of . . . ) help the more rhyme-challenged readers get into the swing of things. After finding an appropriate replacement for orange forces the puzzled thief to pause so long that the police catch up, readers will have to fill in the wordless jailbreak's absent narrative themselves. Clues abound: there's a sock on the open cell door. Young versifiers who are, like the thief, stymied by the lack of a ready rhyme for orange will find one solution at least in Adam Rex's more or less deceptively titled Nothing Rhymes with Orange (2017).(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2018, American Library Association.)

    • The Horn Book

      July 1, 2018
      "Once upon a time, a thief committed a crime. / Everything he stole was replaced with a rhyme." Readers will find pleasure in guessing the rhymes ("Hammy's brand-new hat / was swapped for a...")--easy enough until the thief steals someone's orange and replaces it with "ummm...splorange?" The billboard-bright cartoonish illustrations of goggle-eyed blob-creatures are droll but have a hastily executed look.

      (Copyright 2018 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)

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  • ATOS Level:1.5
  • Lexile® Measure:400
  • Interest Level:K-3(LG)
  • Text Difficulty:0-2

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