Receiving the yearly birthday gift from his grandmother has become David’s living nightmare. The “surprise” she always has for him never varies. How can he stop this never-ending flow of stiff, white, scratchy shirts — “perfect gentlemen” shirts that make him squirm and pull and shift and twitch? David closes his eyes and imagines a long line of shirts — one for every year of his life — stretching on forever. Then suddenly, without really intending to, he has done the unthinkable.
“DAVID!” his mother screams. And when David opens his eyes, there are his mother, his father, and his bubbie staring at him. The shirt is no longer in his hands. He has thrown it out the window! Now it is out on the street, in the jaws of his dog, and the very merry chase is on.
Bitingly funny and keenly observed, My New Shirt is graphically presented as a photo album commemorating David’s desperate act of liberation from a family tradition badly in need of a change.
School Library Journal
Gr 1-2 Every year on his birthday, David receives the same present from his Bubbie-a starched white dress shirt. He can imagine himself hanging white shirts up in an endless row for the rest of his life. This year, in frustration, he flings the shirt out the window, and his dog, Pupik, chases after it. He drags the shirt through a muddy garden, past a restaurant diner eating borscht, and into a basket of bagels. And incredible as it may seem, the shirt flies out the window not once, but twice, in this far-fetched tale. Comic watercolor illustrations are framed to resemble photographs taped onto the beige pages of an album, adding to the nostalgic feel of the story. Birthday books are plentiful this year, and this one will appeal to a limited audience.-Blair Christolon, Prince William Public Library System, Manassas, VA
Categories:
- Children's Books
- Holidays & Celebrations
- Birthdays
- Holidays & Celebrations
Publisher : Tundra Books
Author : Fagan, Cary
Language : English
Edition : Illustrated
Published :2007-09-11
Number Of Pages : 32
Binding : Hardcover
ISBN-10 : 088776715X
ISBN-13 : 9780887767159
Item weight : 0.85 lb
Dimensions : 0.5 in x 8.1 in x 10.1 in
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