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Doodleday (2011)

by Ross Collins(Favorite Author)

3.84 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

080751683X (ISBN13: 9780807516836)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Albert Whitman & Company

review 1: Collins, R. (2011). Doodleday. Chicago, Illinois: Albert Whitman & Company. On Doodleday, The main character Harvey's mother told him he must not draw on Doodleday but did not tell him why. As soon as she left, he began to draw. He drew a fly. All of a sudden he went to the kitchen, and his drawing had came to life! So he began drawing different animals that he thought could eat the previous one but none of them did that. Eventually his mom comes to his rescue and draws a drawing of a mom that tells all the drawings to get back into the doodle pad. I rate this story 4/5. I thought it was a little predictable, and I did not find it very entertaining, though it was a well written story.
review 2: "Doodleday" is the opposite of what I was expecting! On t... morehe first page, the little boy Harvey's mother tells him that there is to be absolutely no drawing on Doodleday. From the title, I was expecting the book to be full of doodling on a day dedicated to doodling. It turns out that Harvey, instead of following his mother's instructions, doodles a fly on a pad of paper. This fly comes to life in giant bug form in his kitchen! Harvey creates a big spider to get rid of the fly, but the spider attacks his dad instead. Harvey creates more and more things to destroy what he has already drawn, but eventually the city is being overtaken by Harvey's doodles. Harvey needs his mom! He calls out to her and Harvey's mom knows just what to do. She creates a doodle mom that orders all of the doodles to return to the notebook. They do so quickly and Harvey's mother gently reminds Harvey that he cannot doodle on Doodleday. The ending is very abrupt and not very descriptive, but in a way it is funny. I think children can relate to the ending more than adults. After Harvey's mom gets rid of all the doodles, Harvey looks at his mom and asks "Is Doodleday every year?" This is funny because despite the mess that just happened due to Harvey's doodles, he is simply wondering if there is going to be other Doodledays in the future. This is how young children think. The illustrations are colorful, and the most descriptive part of the illustrations are the facial expressions of Harvey and his mother. The doodles are great because they resemble the rough sketches of children, but they have come to life with faces in this story. My favorite page is the page that just has a picture of Harvey in shear panic screaming "MOM" and his mother in the background running for him. This shows that no matter what happens, a mother can fix it! :) less

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