Flooded

Mariajo Ilustrajo

Book - 2023

"Flooded is the funny and beautifully illustrated tale of animals who live in a city that is ever so slowly flooding. The flood comes gradually at first. A business lion reads about it in the paper over his breakfast and absent-mindedly says 'hmm!', but does nothing about it. All the animals ignore the obvious and go about their busy lives, disjointed from one another and preoccupied by their own problems. Eventually, the flood water reaches a height that they can no longer ignore and they have to work together to save their city. All the animals join together in a line and pull out the plug that is drowning the city. This is an exceptionally illustrated story that teaches a message not to let problems fester and with a littl...e team work and community spirit, no problem is insurmountable."--Provided by publisher.

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Subjects
Genres
Children's stories
Children's stories Pictorial works
Ecofiction
Animal fiction
Picture books
Published
London : First Editions 2023.
Language
English
Main Author
Mariajo Ilustrajo (author)
Physical Description
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
ISBN
9780711276789
9780711276765
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Review by Kirkus Book Review

A busy urban animal populace, initially oblivious to an observant monkey, grapples with the problem of rising water. Like a lost-in-the-shuffle Lorax, the monkey (a tamarin or patas monkey, perhaps), spying the problem and its solution on the title page, tries repeatedly to alert the preoccupied citizens. Giraffes and other large animals can ignore the rising water at first, but smaller ones struggle. (Ever-clever rats are quick to commandeer all manner of tiny watercraft: They crew through a restaurant and take a museum audio tour in a raft.) At the museum, the monkey rescues a low-hanging, Vermeer-esque painting as the water rises ever higher. Street vendors sell oxygen bottles and goggles, and animals stage underwater demonstrations. "Everyone needed it sorted out. But no one knew what to do…" The monkey is finally successful in engaging everyone, tug-of-war fashion, to work together for a solution. Ilustrajo's simple plotting permits interpretation of the text either as a celebration of community cooperation or an allegorical warning of climate change--or both. Either way, she cautions that such environmental calamities bring consequences. "Nothing was quite the same as before. There were lots of new problems. But now they knew the only way to fix a problem…was together." The muted, gray-blue palette, punctuated only by the monkey's golden tail, brings to life often amusing scenes in this bad news--good news fable. Impressively deep--even after the water recedes. (Picture book. 3-7) Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.