Snowed Under: The Bobblesberg Winter Games (Bob the Builder

by Wendy Wax, Hot Animation

Bob and his dream machine team travel across the ocean to Bobblesberg, where they will help set up for the Winter Games! But what happens when Scoop decides he can do all the work by himself?

Genres: Picture Books

24 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2004

About the author

The Wendy Wax who wrote 'The Accidental Bestseller' and other romance comedies is my cousin. She’s at authorwendywax.com. See the PW Article about the 2 Wendy Waxes.

Wendy Wax is a children’s book author and a collage artist. She grew up in Michigan where she read lots of children’s books. Her favorite authors were Astrid Lindgren, Beverly Cleary, Roald Dahl, Jean Little, and E. B. White. Wendy has always liked to draw, and she kept a journal from third grade on.

After earning a BFA in graphic design from the University of Michigan, Wendy moved to New York City, where she was a children’s book editor for several years.

During that time, she began creating photo-collages for advertising, editorial, and children’s books. Her clients include: American Express, HBO, Bloomberg, UTNE Reader, HarperCollins, Penguin USA, Gold Digest, Good Housekeeping, and The New York Times.

Wendy currently divides her time between Remsenburg, New York and New York City. She likes to swim, sing, paint, and spend time with her photographer husband Jon (whose photos are often in Wendy’s collages) and her amazing 6-year-old son, Jonah.

Reviews

[Stephanie Chiaro · Rating 5 out of 5]

As a college student born in the nineties, I have a soft spot for Bob the Builder and this book was no disappointment. It teaches young children about the importance of teamwork. In the book, Scooter, the "team leader" gets a little pushy about wanting to do everything himself to be the apple of Bob's eye, but when the workload piles on, he realizes he must accept help from his team. The only negative I saw from the book was the amount of characters readers are expected to know before reading the book. There seems to be a lot of names and I was a little confused, trying to remember who did or said what.

[Rosa Cline · Rating 3 out of 5]

This Bob the Builder story the team is building a project but is called in an emergency to help with the winter games, without them the games can't go on. But Bob puts one of the engines as 'leader' and it goes to their head. They learn a hard lesson the hard way when they want to be boss and not work together as a team. But in the end they all work together and save the day.