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Summary
Adèle and her younger brother, Simon, have just arrived in New York City to visit their Aunt Cécile and prepare for a grand train trip around America. " Please try not to lose anything on our trip," Adèle tells her brother with a sigh. But how can Simon remember to keep an eye on his belongings when there are so many wonderful distractions and astounding sights to take in? The endearing team from
Adèle & Simon returns in a crosscontinental adventure that reflects the vitality of early twentieth-century America, from the Boston Public Garden to San Francisco's Chinatown. Stunning pen-and-ink-andwatercolor illustrations are filled with innumerable hidden treasures, and endpapers featuring a period map of America extend the fun.
Adèle & Simon in America is a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
Author Notes
Children's book author and illustrator Barbara McClintock was born in Clinton, New Jersey on May 6, 1955. She attended Jamestown College in North Dakota before moving to New York City on the recommendation of Maurice Sendak, whom she called to ask advice about how to become a children's book illustrator. She briefly studied at The Art Students League of New York.
Before meeting Jim Henson and illustrating books for his television series Fraggle Rock, she designed characters for television commercials for an animation studio and illustrated textbooks. Her first book, The Heartaches of a French Cat, won the New York Times Best Books Award. She won this award three more times as well as a Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor award for Dahlia. Her other works include Animal Fables from Aesop, The Fantastic Drawings of Danielle, The Gingerbread Man, Adele and Simon, Mary and the Mouse, the Mouse and Mary, and The Battle of Luke and Longnose.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (5)
School Library Journal Review
K-Gr 3-The French youngsters introduced in Adele & Simon (Farrar, 2006) return in this early-20th-century adventure with their Aunt Cecile. This book follows the same format and look as its predecessor, complete with McClintock's signature pen-and-ink and watercolor illustrations, off-white paper, vintage font, and endpaper maps following the siblings' travel route. As the children pack for their train trip across America, Adele reminds Simon to try not to lose anything, while Aunt Cecile reassures them that she has labeled all of his belongings with his name and her address. This is a necessary precaution, because as soon as they arrive at the train station, Simon's journal goes missing. And in typical fashion, he continues to lose an item at each of their destinations, from San Francisco's Chinatown to Washington, DC. Fans of Where's Waldo? will enjoy searching for Simon's lost items amid all of the action-filled scenes, while adults will appreciate the great detail and line work. Readers of all ages will delight in the variety of facial and bodily expressions found in both the main and background characters. Also, while the colors remain muted, they are ever so slightly brighter than those in Adele & Simon, creating a more open and airy feel to the scenes. Like the first book, McClintock includes endnotes detailing each location that the children visit. This is a feast for the eyes and a wonderful way to incorporate geographic information into a child's frame of knowledge.-Kim T. Ha, Elkridge Branch Library, MD (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
Starred Review. The young Parisian siblings from McClintock's well-loved Adèle & Simon embark on a second highly successful adventure, this time on a train journey through the United States with their Aunt Cécile. Sepia-colored endpapers trace their cross-country route on an old railway map, creating an early-20th-century setting, and the artist's characteristic ink-and-watercolor work depicts each of 12 destinations in impeccable period detail. Once again Simon loses one of his belongings at each stop; the hide-and-seek game that supports this skimpy storyline is enticing, although so subtly presented that inexperienced readers may miss it. Astute readers will also enjoy the well-researched endnotes, which provide historical and geographical background for each place the trio visits and indicate the presence of historical figures, too, in many illustrations. This bonus element encourages even closer attention and may be the start of a child's own journey out of the book, toward further exploration of the people and places so magnificently rendered here. Ages 4-8. (Aug.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved All rights reserved.
Horn Book Review
(Preschool, Primary) Reiterating the pattern she used in Adele & Simon (rev. 9/06), McClintock takes the young Parisian and her absent-minded little brother on an American tour. Having survived the ocean voyage on the new ship Lusitania, Simon's dozen possessions will soon be redistributed on the ensuing cross-country train journey. The concluding notes contribute significantly to appreciating the elaborate visual content, and though many of the notable figures depicted (Edith Wharton, Theodore Dreiser) are beyond young readers' ken, there's plenty else for them to spot: animals concealed in what will soon become Rocky Mountain National Park, plus a newly missing item -- and our three travelers -- at each new site. These, too, are beguiling (Lewis and Clark's farthest point, a Pacific beach; a Texas ranch), culminating with the U.S. Capitol (and President Theodore Roosevelt's family and pets). Rounding out the story, Simon's stuff has all been mailed back to New York and gets there before him. Once again, the carefully researched illustrations are invitingly detailed and touched with humor, while a historical endpaper map recapitulates the journey.From HORN BOOK, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
Still channeling Kate Greenaway in the art, though adding her own vein of sly humor, McClintock recycles the plot of her award-winning Ad'le and Simon (2006) across a much larger stage. To the vast annoyance of big sister Ad'le, absent-minded young Simon proceeds to strew his gear--from journal and pencil box to buckskin jacket and cowboy hat--across the turn-of-the-20th-century United States as indulgent Aunt Ccile conducts the two on a coast-to-coast--and back--tour. The broad, very finely drawn American scenes reward close study; not only are the small tourists and their lost items there to be picked out, but each spread is stocked with bustling figures and business, along with accurately rendered architectural and historical detail. The repetitive narrative may pall on adult readers of the well-heeled pair's previous outing, but children have more tolerance for that sort of thing, and the elegant period visuals supply plenty of eye candy. (Picture book. 6-8) Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
French siblings Adéle and her younger brother, Simon, last seen in Paris, are now in America, visiting their aunt. They are looking forward to their cross-country train journey, but once more, Simon is being less than careful with his belongings. He starts the trip with a journal, pencil box, cowboy hat, drinking cup, and several other items, but alas, they're soon strewn across the states. It is this thread that keeps the narrative going, but what will entice readers most is McClintock's meticulous artwork, which brings to life a time gone by. Re-creating the early days of the last century, she uses soft colorings and plenty of cross-hatching to show readers all manner of sights: a North Dakota farm; the Pacific Ocean, south of Seattle; a dusty ranch in Texas, complete with cowboys and a chuck wagon. The absorbing artwork will sustain many viewings, perhaps even enough for eagle-eyed readers to spot Simon's (tiny) lost objects in the spreads. Those who want to know more will enjoy illustrated endnotes that offer facts about the destinations.--Cooper, Ilene Copyright 2008 Booklist