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Surfer Chick
illus. by Henry Cole. 32p. Abrams. May 2012. RTE $16.95. ISBN 978-1-4197-0188-7.
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PreS-Gr 3—A humorous story of a surfer chick coming into her own. Her dad rules the Roost Surf Shop and has radical skills, and now he's agreed to show the chick his best moves. After she wipes out, she must get the courage to try again. This is a sweet, spunky story about perseverance and gaining confidence. Acrylic paint and colored pencil with a hot press watercolor make the sunsets dynamic and bright. The lively art has a cartoon feel; the waves seem iridescent and jump off the pages. Fans of animation will like this style. The playful rhyming text incorporates plenty of surfer slang like "radical," "bummer," and "gnarly." Not only does this youngster learn to surf, but she also invents some moves of her own. Totally awesome!—Jess deCourcy Hinds, Bard H.S. Early College, Queens, NYWhen her surfing-star dad agrees to teach Chick how to ride the waves, she is stoked. She gets off to a rough start with a "colossal wipeout," but copying her dad's moves gives her confidence to hang ten and then some. Incorporating gnarly surfer lingo, the rhyming text is evenly metered and well matched to Cole's humorously expressive colored-pencil and acrylic illustrations of chickens catching the waves.
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