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Oops!
In a distinctive oversize package and illustrated with Joëlle Jolivet’s signature retro, eye-catching style, Oops! follows a family through the streets of Paris as they try to get to the airport for their vacation. Back at their apartment, their house-sitting aunt slips on some soap, setting off a chain reaction of events that create some extreme roadblocks for the family’s trip. A movie shoot, a parade, policemen, rampaging bears, aliens, and much more collide in this remarkable new picture book adventure. The book includes a gatefold page at the end that explains in detail the train of chaos on the previous pages. Praise for 365 Penguins
Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor Award
New York Times bestseller
Publishers Weekly bestseller
Seen on Martha TV
Heard on NPR
“Pièce de résistance . . . a real treat.” —Daniel Pinkwater
“Integrates challenging math concepts and environmental concerns into a clever narrative . . . Units on penguins and global warming will never be the same.” —School Library Journal
“It’s the fun of the rapidly multiplying penguin horde that carries the book” —Chicago Tribune
Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor Award
New York Times bestseller
Publishers Weekly bestseller
Seen on Martha TV
Heard on NPR
“Pièce de résistance . . . a real treat.” —Daniel Pinkwater
“Integrates challenging math concepts and environmental concerns into a clever narrative . . . Units on penguins and global warming will never be the same.” —School Library Journal
“It’s the fun of the rapidly multiplying penguin horde that carries the book” —Chicago Tribune
- GenresPicture BooksChildrens
42 pages, Hardcover
First published April 6, 2009
33 people want to read
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September 17, 2013
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this book is manic and visually overwhelming
too much pop culture that a small child can't relate to
terrible layout and terrible "story" if it can be called that
this book is manic and visually overwhelming
too much pop culture that a small child can't relate to
terrible layout and terrible "story" if it can be called that
April 3, 2016
International Book
Fromental, Jean-Luc and Joelle Jolivet. Oops! New York: Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2009. Print.
A French family is going on vacation but having difficulty getting to the airport. This is an oversized picture book that highlights a series of cause and effect relationships as a family tries many ways to make it across the city of Paris to make their plane. Children will enjoy seeing the chain of catastrophes continue on each page. It begins as a mailman slips on the soap that was thrown out the window by Aunt Roberta and continues with a taxi crash, a bike upsetting a music video shoot and an elephant crashing into the president’s car. A funny ending includes aliens saving the day and taking the family to their beach destination. This book has been translated from French.
USBBY Outstanding International Books,2011 USBBY Organization
Themes: traveling turmoil, France, cause and effect, family
This would be a great book to read aloud to a small group. The book has very detailed illustrations similar to a “Where’s Waldo” format. A teacher could read it aloud first so the students could hear the story and read it a second time for students to enjoy looking through the pictures to better interact with the story. This would be a great story to help students make and revise predictions. It could also be used to introduce the concept of cause and effect as a reading strategy.
After reading the story, students could write a personal narrative of a time they went on vacation and something unusual happened. The book covers many forms of transportation so it could also be used as an introduction on a unit on transportation.
Students could also be assigned a children’s engineering project and work in pairs to design a new mode of transportation to help this family make their vacation destination. They could use recycled boxes, tp rolls, straws, tape, etc to create their new invention. A design brief could be prepared before the pair of students begin to create it.
Fromental, Jean-Luc and Joelle Jolivet. Oops! New York: Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2009. Print.
A French family is going on vacation but having difficulty getting to the airport. This is an oversized picture book that highlights a series of cause and effect relationships as a family tries many ways to make it across the city of Paris to make their plane. Children will enjoy seeing the chain of catastrophes continue on each page. It begins as a mailman slips on the soap that was thrown out the window by Aunt Roberta and continues with a taxi crash, a bike upsetting a music video shoot and an elephant crashing into the president’s car. A funny ending includes aliens saving the day and taking the family to their beach destination. This book has been translated from French.
USBBY Outstanding International Books,2011 USBBY Organization
Themes: traveling turmoil, France, cause and effect, family
This would be a great book to read aloud to a small group. The book has very detailed illustrations similar to a “Where’s Waldo” format. A teacher could read it aloud first so the students could hear the story and read it a second time for students to enjoy looking through the pictures to better interact with the story. This would be a great story to help students make and revise predictions. It could also be used to introduce the concept of cause and effect as a reading strategy.
After reading the story, students could write a personal narrative of a time they went on vacation and something unusual happened. The book covers many forms of transportation so it could also be used as an introduction on a unit on transportation.
Students could also be assigned a children’s engineering project and work in pairs to design a new mode of transportation to help this family make their vacation destination. They could use recycled boxes, tp rolls, straws, tape, etc to create their new invention. A design brief could be prepared before the pair of students begin to create it.
July 18, 2011
Illustrator: Joelle Jolivet
Publisher: Abrams Books for Young Readers
Year: 2009
Interest Level: 1-3
Reading Level: 2-4
Oops is an oversized picture book that describes a series of funny events that lead to new events that detain a family from making it to the airport on time. While some of the events are not plausible, especially not all in one day, this text gives a more “realistic” set of cause and effect events to move beyond using If you Give a Mouse a Cookie type books that are for a younger audience. The text structure also supports the events with occasional bold and bigger fonts. The illustrations have fantastic details that tell more than the story in the text. Children can practice reading the pictures for predictions and inferences, which allows this book to be used in many ways and reach many levels of readers. In a read aloud, students can learn something at their level, whether it is from the picture clues or periodic challenging vocabulary, such as autograph, recovered, blundered, gasped, lunatics, etc.
Publisher: Abrams Books for Young Readers
Year: 2009
Interest Level: 1-3
Reading Level: 2-4
Oops is an oversized picture book that describes a series of funny events that lead to new events that detain a family from making it to the airport on time. While some of the events are not plausible, especially not all in one day, this text gives a more “realistic” set of cause and effect events to move beyond using If you Give a Mouse a Cookie type books that are for a younger audience. The text structure also supports the events with occasional bold and bigger fonts. The illustrations have fantastic details that tell more than the story in the text. Children can practice reading the pictures for predictions and inferences, which allows this book to be used in many ways and reach many levels of readers. In a read aloud, students can learn something at their level, whether it is from the picture clues or periodic challenging vocabulary, such as autograph, recovered, blundered, gasped, lunatics, etc.
May 16, 2010
This book gets bumped up to 4 stars because of the artwork and because it is dedicated to Rube Goldberg. (Also because our toddler has been wandering around saying, "Awadersah pink, skwamed Amy." ["'The water's all pink', exclaimed Amy." Despite the fact that the text reads, "Amy exclaimed".:])
There's a long chain of catastrophes preventing a family from getting to the airport, and most of it is pretty absurd and funny. It was a relief to realize one wasn't supposed to get all the necessary information from the pictures and text; there is a chain of events listed in the back. I got most of it, but not all, without the list.
The ending is rather abrupt, but I think it fits the kind of logic little kids like. Finding the bears in all the pictures is fun. I can't decide whether I like this or "365 Penguins" better, but the family is the same.
There's a long chain of catastrophes preventing a family from getting to the airport, and most of it is pretty absurd and funny. It was a relief to realize one wasn't supposed to get all the necessary information from the pictures and text; there is a chain of events listed in the back. I got most of it, but not all, without the list.
The ending is rather abrupt, but I think it fits the kind of logic little kids like. Finding the bears in all the pictures is fun. I can't decide whether I like this or "365 Penguins" better, but the family is the same.
April 7, 2011
I anticipated this book ALMOST as much as I waited for Queen of the Falls, and I am so thoroughly disappointed! The art is nowhere near as crisp as it was in 365 Penguins, and the plot line is muddled. The book is dedicated to Rube Goldberg, but I think he would have found some grave flaws in the design.
April 11, 2011
A wild romp through the streets of Paris, all caused by a slippery bar of soap. Liked the Paris scenery and the concept; wish the chain of events had been a little more obvious from the pictures (but I like that they are explained in the end -- I think kids will enjoy going back and forth and looking more closely.)
January 22, 2015
i can only assume something is lost in translation with this french author. the trail of clues at the end of the book could have been the story. the text and attempted storyline was manic, disjointed and nonsensical - and not in way that works for a children's book.
July 20, 2010
an oversize chain of events book, very humorous, but the chain isn't always obvious, city life
March 10, 2011
From the author of "365 Penguins" with more of a "Where's Waldo?" sort of feel. Fun!
July 8, 2011
Huge picture book that is excellent for teaching cause and effect in a very silly way.
December 30, 2016
Nice book about cause and effect
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