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Squish #2: Brave New Pond (2012)

by Jennifer L. Holm(Favorite Author)

4.1 of 5 Votes: 2

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Random House BFYR

series

Squish

review 1: Horn Book (Spring 2012)In his second adventure, amoeba Squish escapes into superhero dream sequences to help him deal with the start of a new school year. Varied panel sizes and informational asides let the authors (creators of Babymouse) take full advantage of their graphic novel format, complete with Day-Glo-green highlights in the entertaining illustrations. Kirkus Reviews starred (August 15, 2011)The single-celled everylad who oozed from the Babymouse series to start one of his own in Squish #1: Super Amoeba (2011) tries hanging with the cool crowd. Squish's efforts to turn over a new pseudopod on the first day of school look futile-until an invitation to sit at the lunch table with the six hyper-cool Algae brothers offers escape from both his nerdy moocher buddy Pod's... more obsession with asteroid disaster and classmate Peggy Paramecium's relentless optimism. He discovers the price, though, when one brother relieves him of his prized baseball cap and then orders him to dump nacho cheese all over Pod. Fortunately, Squish has beloved comic-book hero Super Amoeba to provide a moral compass. Mixing framed and unframed panels, the Holms alternate between Squish's dilemma, illustrated with green highlights, and black and white pages from Squish's comic, in which Super Amoeba has to make a parallel choice. In the end, both amoebae make the heroic decision. The authors tuck in some morsels of biology, end with instructions for making green slime and provide another sort-of closure for the main plot-as Peggy puts it: "Oh no! The algae just got wiped out by an Asteroid!! That's so sad!!! Gee, I wonder if tomorrow is pizza day!" Any day there's a new Squish (or Babymouse, for that matter) is Pizza Day. (Graphic novel. 7-9)
review 2: Ever searching for books to interest my eight and seven year old boys, I ordered this book on a whim. It has been a big hit with my eight year old, I've even caught him reading it when he could be watching television. I haven't read the book myself but anything that will keep my kid interested and buried in a story gets five stars from me! In addition, it has sparked an intensive research session which is super cool in and of itself. less

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