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Meet Sticky Burr, his unshakable friends, and his prickly foes! A beguiling graphic storybook guaranteed to grab young readers.
Welcome to Burrwood Forest, where a village of seed pods leads a busy life gathering food, building stick houses, and having extraordinary adventures. There are good friends like Sticky Burr and Mossy Burr, who stick together, and bad seeds like Scurvy Burr, who likes to irritate them every chance he gets. Watch out for wild dogs and maze trees, loyal insects and escapes on the fly in a gently quirky, delightfully detailed graphic storybook that middle-graders and ambitious younger readers are bound to get stuck on.
Author Notes
John Lechner is an artist, animator, multimedia designer, puppeteer, and author-illustrator of the picture book A FROGGY FABLE. He lives in Needham, Massachusetts.
Reviews (5)
School Library Journal Review
Gr 2-4-Sticky Burr is a quiet little burr, interested in the creative arts. He writes, paints, and plays the ukulele. He's not at all prickly like Scurvy Burr and Spiny Burr. As one might expect, Scurvy and his buddies tease and taunt him, and chase him out of the forest. With the help of several friends, Sticky gets away from the gang, and his escape leads to more adven-tures. He arrives back home to save Burrwood Forest from wild dogs. The burrs are very grateful, at least most of them. Scurvy is not so enamored of the hero, and there are hints of more adventures to come. Written in graphic-novel style, the lively and sometimes punny dialogue leads young readers through Sticky's exciting escapades. There are occasional pauses with a page to identify "Insects I Have Known," "Dangers in the Forest," and "Sticky Situations." The illustrations are simple, colorful, and easy to follow. A little reminiscent of the Smurfs, Sticky Burr and his friends will appeal to younger graphic-novel fans.-Carolyn Janssen, Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, OH (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
One might think burrs don't have adventures-or affable personalities, for that matter-but this hardcover color comic sets the record straight. According to title character Sticky Burr, "We are very small and covered with tiny hooks, so we stick to things. Sometimes this can be very inconvenient!" To prove his point, assorted images show burrs attached to a rabbit's ear, a soccer ball and a shoelace. Sticky himself temporarily gets attached to a bird's tail ("I hung on as tight as I could") and to a tree trunk, where, while awaiting rescue, he strums his ukulele and invents a Pooh-like song, "Stuck on a tree,/ Won't somebody help me?" until a dragonfly friend tugs him loose. Lechner's (A Froggy Fable) prickly burrs are all face: a roundish shaggy shape, two wide-open eyes, a long line for a mouth and two spindly stick-figure arms. Sticky's close friend, Mossy Burr (identifiable by the red bow on her head), defends Sticky against local bully, Scurvy, and his sidekick Spiny. Lechner has a talent for Burr names (although there is no Raymond) and the burrs' treehouse community even has a newspaper, The Burrwood Gazette. Using an outdoorsy palette, he intersperses conventional panel layout with torn pages from Sticky's journal, set against leafy backdrops. Lechner creates an engaging nature-oriented story, alternating drolly comic moments with a surprising amount of information about life in the forest. Ages 6-10. (June) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Horn Book Review
Seedpod Sticky Burr would rather paint or play his ukulele than do ""prickly things."" His fellow burrs think he's an oddball and are about to kick him out of the community. When wild dogs attack, however, Sticky Burr saves the day. Though the story arc is nothing new, the cartoon-panel treatment and unique protagonist will entice readers. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.
Kirkus Review
Illustrated in a mix of cartoon panels and illustrated pages of hand-lettered text, this woodsy tale is just the ticket for budding graphic-novel fans. Despite the hostility of bad seed Scurvy Burr, Sticky Burr earns the adulation of his spine-covered but gregarious community after he and his best buddy Draffle the dragonfly escape a quick succession of hazards to rescue lightning-bug Princess Oralee from the twisting tunnels of the swamp's legendary Maze Tree. Then they save the burr village from a pack of wild dogs. Small, green, covered with prickles and usually found painting or playing his ukulele when he's not telling stories or editing the Burrwood Gazette (an issue of which occupies the final spread), Sticky Burr makes a decidedly uncommon hero. Aside from occasional excursions into the forest's only half-fanciful natural history, the pace never falters. Will Sticky Burr stick around for more adventures? Very possibly. (Graphic fiction. 7-10) Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
"Part graphic novel, part fantasy nature journal, this small, inventive title introduces Sticky Burr, a tiny, spiny, unlikely hero. Like the other burrs in Burrwood Forest, young Sticky is small and covered with tiny hooks, but he feels different, too; he prefers art and music to the more prickly pursuits that the other burrs enjoy. While fleeing a pack of bullies, Sticky inadvertently begins a dangerous adventure that brings new friendships and transforms him from an outsider into a hero. With clear lines and understated, woodsy browns and greens, Lechner's cartoon artwork mixes multiframe spreads of Sticky on the run with pages that are meant to resemble Sticky's journal, offering background explanations about the burr way of life. Dialogue bubbles briskly move the story along, but the whimsical details will encourage kids to linger and enjoy the richly realized world on each page. The messages about triumphing over bullies are overt, but children will eagerly rally behind the small hero and look for future adventures in Burrwood Forest."--"Engberg, Gillian" Copyright 2007 Booklist