Huggy the Python hugs too hard

Ame Dyckman

Book - 2018

Hugs are Huggy the Python's favorite thing, but he needs help learning how to give a gentle hug.

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Genres
Board books
Published
New York : Little Simon, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2018.
Language
English
Main Author
Ame Dyckman (author)
Other Authors
Alex Griffiths (illustrator)
Edition
First Little Simon edition
Item Description
Cover title.
On board pages.
Physical Description
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 18 cm
ISBN
9781534410800
Contents unavailable.
Review by Kirkus Book Review

Readers teach Huggy the Python how to be gentle.True to his name, this green, top-hat-wearing, scarf-sporting snake "LOVES to hug the things he loves." However, disaster ensues when he hugs a balloon and then an oversized bowl of ice cream. "OOPS! You hugged too hard, Huggy." The unseen narrator stops the action before Huggy can do any damage to a "fuzzy little dog." Readers are instructed to give the impossibly cute, huge-eyed little pooch a model, "GENTLE" hug, and the dog's happy dance combines with exuberant confetti to underscore that it "was a GREAT gentle hug!" Huggy learns by this example and follows suit (though his enthusiastic, simultaneous embrace of a tube of toothpaste makes it clear just what the self-control costs him). Dyckman's jaunty, conversational narration and Griffiths' fluid and charming cartoons in cheery colors against white backgrounds are perfectly matched. Roary the Lion Roars Too Loud publishes simultaneously.Huggy is an adorable character, no mean feat for a python; here's hoping more of these tender life lessons in the Wee Beasties series are on the way. (Board book. 2-3) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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