Lucy Fell Down the Mountain

PreS-Gr 2–The title sums up this exciting plummet into weirdness. Lucy, while falling, meets an also-falling mountain man with a rope and a (not) bungee-jumping duck and a cave full of bears, none of whom prove to be helpful. It seems the only thing she can do about her cold bum, headache, and the fact that she's falling down a mountain is to roll with it. There's plenty of evocative language—"Down the mountain Lucy zoomed like a tiny kid comet, gathering globs of sticky white snow." Readers are sure to love several mentions of the word butt as well as a nice barf at the end. The illustrations are full of movement, allowing readers to fall right alongside Lucy and her crew. Cornell's signature cartoon style will be familiar to fans of his "The Terrible Two" series with Mac Barnett, and the facial expressions of Lucy and her companions are bound to get kids falling down with laughter.