Lambslide - by Ann Patchett (School And Library)

About the Book

Award-winning author Patchett ("Bel Canto, Commonwealth") teams up with Glasser, illustrator of the "New York Times"-bestselling Fancy Nancy series, for her picture book debut about a flock of overly confident lambs that mishears the word "landslide" as "lambslide" and begins a campaign to have one built for them on the farm. Full color.

Book Synopsis

From the international bestselling author of Bel Canto and Commonwealth, Ann Patchett, and the bestselling illustrator of the Fancy Nancy series, Robin Preiss Glasser, comes a hilarious children's story about a slide made just for lambs.

Nicolette Farmer is running for class president, and the rest of the Farmer family tells her she'll win by a landslide. A pack of overconfident lambs mistakenly hear lambslide and can't believe there's a slide made just for them. But when they can't find one on the farm, there's only one thing left to do: take a vote!

They campaign. They bargain. They ask all the other animals if they, too, would like a lambslide.

Will the lambs ever get their special slide?

Find out in this epic collaboration between Patchett and Glasser, who create the perfect children's book.

From the Back Cover

On the farm there was a flock of lambs who believed that everything was done especially for them. The grass grew to please them and the rain fell to annoy them.

So when the lambs overhear the Farmer family say something about winning a school election by a landslide, of course they hear the word LAMBSLIDE.

Wait . . . there's a slide made just for lambs?!

"How do we get a lambslide?" they all wonder.

There's only one thing to do: Take a vote!

Review Quotes

"A good story about cooperation--and the democratic process."--Kirkus Reviews

"And what a slide it is! It's a stunning success..."--Booklist

"Award-winning adult author Patchett makes her picture-book
debut with this feel-good story, stuffed with tips on how to solve a problem and execute a plan."--Booklist

"Patchett's first children's book is pleasantly old-fashioned, with some modern touches..."--Kirkus Reviews

"A fun way to introduce the concepts of campaigning and voting to young readers."--School Library Journal

"[Glasser's] art amiably captures the daily milieu of farm life, from piglets cheerfully rolling in the muck to farmers chucking hay bales to Nicolette's daydreaming under dappled leaves and swaying branches."--Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

"[Patchett's] gentle humor [respects] the whimsy of childhood."--Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books