Review by Publisher's Weekly Review
Lucky Days with Mr. and Mrs. Green by Keith Baker finds the gator couple solving the mystery of the Missus' missing pearls and accurately guessing the gumball sum in a giant jar, and Mrs. Green rescues her husband from humiliation in a talent show. What a pair! (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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Review by School Library Journal Review
K-Gr 2-A welcome addition to the series, this early chapter book presents the alligator couple in three new adventures. In "Lost and Found," Mr. Green can't wait to apply his detective skills to solving the mystery of his wife's missing jewelry. "Gumballs" shows him applying his estimation skills to try and win a gumball contest and the much-desired grand prize. Mrs. Green's stroke of genius saves her husband from embarrassment in "The Talent Show" and enables him to be a singing sensation. In this title, Mrs. Green seems a bit stereotypical, always calm and clever but satisfied to be the wind beneath Mr. Green's wings as he places himself in the center of the action. Plenty of playful illustrations accompany the action, and Baker's artwork captures the essence of his likable characters. Mrs. Green in her pearls and silly Mr. Green in his necktie are shown "floating through a gumball galaxy-without gravity" on one vibrant full-page spread as he dreams of winning the gumball contest. Another shows the pair sliding into a pool with their typical zest for life. Both characters are endearing and hopefully here to stay.-Gloria Koster, West School, New Canaan, CT (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
(Primary) While the days described here may be lucky for Mr. and Mrs. Green (the pair of alligators introduced in Meet Mr. and Mrs. Green), they're even more fortuitous for beginning readers, who are treated to three stories with fully developed plots and characters and steady pacing, emphasized by jaunty acrylic illustrations. The reptilian duo engages in detective work (Mrs. Green loses her jewelry); enters a contest (Mr. Green uses math, and his lucky number, to guess the correct number of gumballs in a jar); and performs in a talent show (Mr. Green sings -- with some help from Mrs. Green). Each story contains a refrain (e.g., ""They looked in the slippers. No pearls...They looked in the toolbox. No pearls..."") that allows new readers a respite from all that decoding. Baker signals his use of a potentially unfamiliar literary device -- a dream sequence in ""Gumballs"" -- through an illustration that employs a black nighttime background different from any other art in the book, which gives children a clue that something different is going on and retains that now-expected measure of sophistication that marks this series. (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
Three more happy tales along the lines of those in More Mr. and Mrs. Green (2004) and its preceding volume. Here, the close-knit couple Sherlock their way to Mrs. Green's missing pearls (stolen by crows while she was in the bath), win both a goldfish and a swimming pool full of jellybeans in a contest and, thanks to a bit of quick thinking on Mrs. Green's part (plus a handy hose), triumph at a Talent Show. Baker is terrific at sliding funny little asides into the telling: At the talent show, the couple enjoy "the storyteller (a little Shakespeare, a lot of Dr. Seuss!)." The effervescent personalities of the all-alligator cast come through clearly in Baker's small, bright green-and-purple scenes; those ready to move on to something slightly beyond the basic easy reader will enjoy all the energy and joie de vivre on display. (Fiction. 7-9) Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
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