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Billy Twitters and His Blue Whale Problem Hardback - 2009

by Mac Barnett; Adam Rex (Illustrator)

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When Billy Twitters fails to clean his room (again), his mom makes good on a threat to buy him a pet. However, the pet he gets is a blue whale. Luckily, Billy knows just what to do with it, in this hilarious tale of a boy and his whale. Full color.

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An uproariously funny cautionary tale from bestselling picture book phenoms Mac Barnett--the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature--and Adam Rex!

Some interesting facts about blue whales: A blue whale is longer than thirty dogs lined up nose to tail. Its tongue weighs as much as four hundred cats. Consequently, blue whales make terrible pets...just ask Billy Twitters. When his parents threaten to teach him responsibility by giving him a whale, Billy isn't worried: 'It's not like you can just have one delivered to your house overnight.' But he's wrong. It arrives via FedUp (motto: 'Delivering Punishment Worldwide'), and it's up to Billy to take care of it!

"Tons of fun."--Publishers Weekly

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  • Title Billy Twitters and His Blue Whale Problem
  • Author Mac Barnett; Adam Rex (Illustrator)
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 48
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, New York
  • Publication date 2009-06
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Dust Cover, Illustrated, Price on Product - Canadian
  • ISBN 9780786849581 / 0786849584
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.1 x 11 x 0.4 in (25.65 x 27.94 x 1.02 cm)
  • Age range 04 to 08 years
  • Grade levels P - 3
  • Reading level 550
  • Category Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Fiction
  • Library of Congress subjects Humorous stories, Conduct of life
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2009011203
  • Dewey Decimal Code E

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Citations

  • Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks, 09/01/2009, Page 0
  • Hornbook Guide to Children, 07/01/2009, Page 320
  • Kirkus Review - Children, 05/01/2009, Page 0
  • New York Times Book Review, 08/16/2009, Page 13
  • Publishers Weekly, 05/18/2009, Page 52
  • School Library Journal, 08/01/2009, Page 69

About the author

Mac Barnett is the author of many books for children, including Extra Yarn, illustrated by Jon Klassen, a Caldecott Honor Book and winner of a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award; The Wolf, the Duck, and the Mouse, a New York Times bestseller; Sam and Dave Dig a Hole, a Caldecott Honor Book and winner of the E. B. White Read Aloud Award. Other titles include The Important Thing About Margaret Wise Brown, Chloe and the Lion, How This Book Was Made, Count the Monkeys, and Billy Twitters and His Blue Whale Problem. He is the co-author, with Jory John, of the New York Times bestselling series The Terrible Two. Mac lives in California.

Adam Rex is the multi-talented author of books for children, middle readers and young adults, as well as an accomplished illustrator. He has written such beloved picture books as School's First Day of School (illustrated by Christian Robinson), has created both pictures and words for favorites like Are You Scared, Darth Vader?, Nothing Rhymes with Orange, and Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich; and he has illustrated books by bestselling authors like The Legend of Rock Scissors Paper by Drew Daywalt, Chloe and the Lion by Mac Barnett, and Chu's Day by Neil Gaiman. The True Meaning of Smekday was his first novel, followed by Smek for President! and other books for middle and teen readers. He grew up in Phoenix, got a BFA from the University of Arizona, and now lives in Tucson.

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