Pop!

PreS-Gr 2—"You don't need a friend to blow bubbles." Dewey believes that—he likes to pop all of them himself. But the last one just slips away, and no matter how fast he runs or jumps, from trampoline or jungle gym, it's just inches out of reach. As his telescope tracks its flight toward a "really tall" building in town, Dewey heads upward, traveling first in a slow elevator—then catching a ride in a hot air balloon, a helicopter, plane, jet, and rocket. None reaches the bubble, but Dewey sees its final "pop" through a extraordinarily unusual communication. Drawn and painted digitally, an easily identifiable Dewey with glasses and backpack lives in a world suffused with a soft natural daylight. Images in various sizes with multiple perspectives propel the action of the tale, even a distant bubble seen through Dewey's telescope lens.