No Dessert Forever! - Hardcover

Lyon, George Ella

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1416903852 ISBN 13: 9781416903857

Publisher: Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books, 2006

Synopsis

Have you ever been blamed for mischief your brother has caused? Did you get mad?

Well, so does the girl in this book about a brother who pesters, and a sister who objects -- big time.

In their spirited words and pictures, favorite friends George Ella Lyon and Peter Catalanotto have a fine time righting the wrong of this familiar family injustice.

About this title

About the Author:

George Ella Lyon is the author of Trucks Roll!, Planes Fly!, and Boats Float!, cowritten with her son Benn. Among George Ella’s other books are the ALA Notable All the Water in the World and What Forest Knows. A novelist and poet, she lives with her family in Lexington, Kentucky. Visit her online at GeorgeEllaLyon.com.

Peter Catalanotto has written seventeen books for children, including Monkey & Robot, More of Monkey & Robot, The Newbies, Question Boy Meets Little Miss Know-It-All, Ivan the Terrier, Matthew A.B.C., and Emily’s Art, of which School Library Journal said in a starred review, “whether viewed from afar or up close, this creative and heartfelt book is a masterpiece.” In 2008, First Lady Laura Bush commissioned Peter to illustrate the White House holiday brochure. He currently teaches the first children’s book writing course offered by both Columbia University and Pratt Institute. Peter has illustrated more than thirty books for other writers including George Ella Lyon, Cynthia Rylant, Mary Pope Osborne, Joanne Ryder, Robert Burleigh, and Megan McDonald. 

From School Library Journal:

PreS–Frustrated with her busy mother, a little girl acts out various scenarios with herself as the adult and a doll as her child. With humor and warmth, Lyon offers a poignant picture of the parent-child relationship from a child's viewpoint, without denigrating the girl's very real feelings. The sophisticated realism of Catalanotto's painterly illustrations may not be instantly appealing to preschoolers, but the vivid expression of emotion through movement and facial expression does a wonderful job of expanding the brief text. This book is just right for older preschoolers who are struggling with issues of independence, anger, frustration, and especially being little in a big world. It would be an excellent accompaniment to Jamie Lee Curtis's It's Hard to Be Five: Learning How to Work My Control Panel (HarperCollins, 2004) or Rachel Vail's Sometimes I'm Bombaloo (Scholastic, 2002). No Dessert Forever! ruefully acknowledges that being little isn't always fair but models the natural technique of displacement as an excellent way of working through feelings of resentment and aggravation.–Tamara E. Richman, Somerset County Library System, Bridgewater, NJ
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About this edition

• Publisher: Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1416903852
• ISBN 13: 9781416903857
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 40
• Illustrator: Catalanotto Peter