Have I got a book for you!

Mélanie Watt, 1975-

Book - 2009

Mr. Al Foxword is one persistent salesman! He will do just about anything to sell you this book. Al tries every trick of the trade. But just when you're ready to close the book on him, he comes up with a clever tactic you simply can't refuse!

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Genres
Picture books
Published
Toronto, ON ; Tonawanda, NY : Kids Can Press c2009.
Language
English
Main Author
Mélanie Watt, 1975- (-)
Physical Description
unpaged : col. ill. ; 24 cm
ISBN
9781554532896
Contents unavailable.
Review by Booklist Review

The offer stated in this book's title is issued by a huckster of a fox in a clashing plaid suit. I can sell anything! boasts Mr. Al Foxword, and on each spread, he slyly tries to wheel and deal readers into buying the book that they already hold in their hands. Similar in format to Watt's Scaredy Squirrel titles, the pages mix text and pictures in creative, unconventional layouts that amplify the goofy humor, as Foxword works himself into a nervous, sweaty frenzy, trotting out every sales cliche along the way. Jokes and interactive fun are the point here, not a solid story, and Watt embeds lots of wordplay into the slapstick scenes filled with Foxword's body language and verbal manipulations. A closing gimmick will bring even more laughs, though underneath the layers of jokes, kids may very well recognize in Foxword's wheedling a greatly exaggerated version of their own frustrated negotiations with grown-ups. Give this to Mo Willems' legions of Pigeon fans.--Engberg, Gillian Copyright 2009 Booklist

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Review by School Library Journal Review

Gr 2-4-Al Foxword is such a good salesman that he can sell an umbrella to a fish. In his clashing plaid suit and carrying a briefcase, the toothy rodent is smooth, persuasive, and, well, cheesy. He tries to sell readers a book called Have I Got a Book for You! Charcoal pencil illustrations are digitally assembled and feature bright orange, yellow, and green. Foxword's clever sales techniques make this book funny to the hilt. It is going to be well loved by older readers who will laugh out loud at the jokes. If you think you'll pass on this title, he has one more sales technique-"You break it, you buy it!!!" The book concludes with a ripped page.-Susan E. Murray, Glendale Public Library, AZ (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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Review by Kirkus Book Review

Children with a taste for TV infomercials now have a literary equivalent to savor any time. Watt, creator of Scaredy Squirrel, dishes up toothy, toupee-topped super-hawker Al Foxword who, fresh from selling iceboxes to penguins and umbrellas to fish ("Al's the best! The AQUA UMBRELLA changed my life!" exclaims a finned customer), delivers a high-pressure sales pitch for this very titlehis "#1 BESTSELLER!" Are you a tough sell? Al is willing to work for your dollars, offering personal compliments, compelling rationales ("Say GOOD-BYE to boring books. You know the ones I'm talking about"), an enticing premium, even ideas for what to do with multiple copies. And if all that doesn't reel you in, he has one final trick up his sleeve. Looking like some sort of rodent and dressed in loud plaids, Al projects a personality as big as the emphatic exhortations plastered across the simply drawn, brightly colored scenes. Driven by a particularly artful use of page turns, this makes compelling reading. Have your credit card ready. (Picture book. 6-8) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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