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Luke On The Loose (2009)

by Harry Bliss(Favorite Author)

3.28 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1935179004 (ISBN13: 9781935179009)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Toon Books

review 1: Text-to-Self: This book reminded myself of my younger cousin. She is now older but when she was about 2 and 3 years old, wherever I would take her in public, she thought she could run off and do whatever she wanted. She would get bored and want to explore new things just as Luke did in the book.Text-to-Text: I do not recall reading another book similar to this. I do remember counseling lessons in elementary school teaching us the importance of not talking to strangers when in public and staying with our parents, and I'm sure books about these subjects were read to us as well.Text-to-World: This issue is relevant in the real world. When kids are taken into public, whether it is because of poor parenting skills, or because kids want to explore, they take off. When in stores ... moreI have heard parents getting paged to the front of the store because their child has ran off for one reason or another. At certain events they have areas for "lost children."
review 2: Luke's dad runs into a friend in Central Park. The two dads talk, and Luke gets bored. So Luke takes off after the pigeons, eventually chasing them all over Manhattan and across the East River into Brooklyn. The comic book is the perfect medium for Luke's zany antics, and the sound effects they entail: EEK! AAAH! YAAAH!I also like that Luke and his dad are an African American family having a universal experience. Trust me when I say that black kids, and especially black boys, are underrepresented in children's literature. Mad props to TOON Books for taking a step in a more inclusive direction. less

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