Review by Booklist Review
The froggy fly chaser introduced in Green Wilma (1993) takes an unexpected ride when she and her buzzing prey are snatched up in error by a pair of similarly pop-eyed alien parents. After a wild interstellar flight, the spacecraft returns to earth, where the relieved purple aliens are reunited with their stranded offspring and Wilma clambers back onto her accustomed log wondering if it was all a dream. The cast members look more like blobby, shell-less M&Ms than frogs in the cartoon illustrations, but budding astronauts will enjoy both the quick and silly trip and the dedicated way Wilma keeps her eye on the fly.--Peters, John Copyright 2009 Booklist
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Review by School Library Journal Review
K-Gr 1-In perfect rhyme, a pop-eyed frog on a log (Wilma) embarks on her favorite adventure: chasing a plump fly. In hot pursuit, she fails to notice the purple spaceship that lands at her pond. The alien child who drops out of the ship looks a lot like Wilma, only blue. So when Wilma is robotically grabbed and stuffed into a space suit for takeoff, nobody realizes that she's not little Blooger. Her wild enthusiasm for chasing flies is what sets the resolution, and the spaceship, in raucous motion. When Wilma's greenness is discovered, "Robot doctors tried to find out/what the problem was./And only Wilma noticed a/familiar little buzz./She chased it all around the room/and out into the ship./She hopped across the flight controls/and things began to tip." The illustrations explode across the pages with frantic innocence. The only characters that don't look 100 percent sweet are the alien robots. Even the flies are adorable. Onboard, the robot waiter offers cool glasses of pond water while aliens munch Martian bugs that look like large crustaceans. There's a deliciously scary close-up as Wilma is examined by the robot MDs. To say that the pictures complement the text is like declaring that the Sun complements the Earth. Children will adore Wilma.-Susan Weitz, formerly at Spencer-Van Etten School District, Spencer, NY (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Review by Horn Book Review
Wilma, a frog, is mistakenly taken aboard an alien spaceship. All is set right when Wilma's instinctual fly-chasing antics cause some crazy spaceship maneuvering, taking them back to Earth where frog is swapped for the missing alien child. This rhyming cosmic outing is given a boost by comic illustrations. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.
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Review by Kirkus Book Review
More than 15 years ago, Green Wilma made a splashy, absurdist debut (Green Wilma, 1993), and now Arnold has splendidly resurrected the young frog. The rhymed narration is as light as bubbles"One morning Wilma woke to hear a buzzing in the sky. / She hopped into the air to catch a tasty little fly"gently pushing along the story of Wilma's accidental hoisting into an alien spacecraft and her subsequent returnposthaste, after she shoots her tongue at that same fly, which has worked its way aboard with Wilma. In contrast, however, the artwork has wonderful heft and presence. The wealth of panels holds evocative colors: dim in the innards of the spaceship, soft summer light at the frog pond. It is not surprising that there is a high degree of humor, from the bug eyes on the fly to Wilma being mashed into the spacesuit. What gives Wilma a touch of the special is her equanimity; after all, she finds herself in some pretty strange precincts, but she keeps her cool and her focus, even though she never gets the fly. (Picture book. 3-5) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
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