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Even a Queen sometimes has trouble getting a good night's sleep -- especially when her mattress is either too hard or too soft. And when the Queen is unhappy, you can bet she makes the King and the citizens of Trouble miserable, too. While the King tries one absurd thing after another in hopes of finding a suitable bed for his hard-to-please Queen -- from the gardener's wheelbarrow to an enormous wicker basket (not too wide, but not too narrow) -- nothing works to solve the problem, not even his Mister Tickle Dream Machine. Finally, a young servant girl, Isabella Abnormella Pinkerton McPugh, steps forth to say what SHE would do: "Queen Angeline might well prefer a bed that's cool and wavy, Like bubble baths or like the seas that float the Royal Navy..".And voila! Thanks to Isabella, the Queen's insomnia is cured once and for all with the invention of -- the Queen-sized waterbed!
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《学校图书馆杂志》(School Library Journal)书评
Gr 1-4-In the first few lines, Lewis sets the stage for this tongue-in-cheek rhyming ramble. "The town of Trouble lay between/Good-Grief! and Who's-to-Blame?-/Three villages exactly almost/Opposite the same." The trouble in Trouble is the petulant, pouting Queen Angeline, who is unable to find a suitable mattress. Brooker's comic scenes of the kingdom in turmoil smoothly blend paper, fabric, and paint into energetic views of the worried folks trying to please the sniffy queen. The royal costumes, in jewel tones of rust, maroon, and blue, make cunning use of jewelry and sequins. Humorous details abound, punctuating and expanding the goofy verse, and many of the actions of the wide-eyed, large-nosed courtiers are laugh-out-loud funny. Everywhere, the grouchy queen is attended by an eager, smiling girl, Keeper of the Royal Cat. Isabella Abnormella Pinkerton McPugh finally introduces herself after the king has posed a long list of impractical possibilities to give Her Royal Highness a comfortable sleeping place. While readers may think Isabella's solution has a flaw, it works in the book and the story races along to a corny conclusion and a splendid double-page view of the smiling queen in her new queen-sized water bed. Lewis and Brooker make a fine match to tell a well-paced silly story that begs to be read aloud.-Margaret Bush, Simmons College, Boston (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
出版社周刊评论
Could the Princess (and the Pea) have grown up to be the Queen of Trouble? Though this silly ramble is not Lewis's (Riddle-icious) best, he includes some clever turns of phrase and provides Brooker (Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street) with a jumping-off point for some high hilarity. The town of Trouble blames a sleepless queen for their countless problems, and the overtired monarch blames her staff: "My Royal Mattress/ is too hard, or else... / too soft!/ Is it too much to requestÄ/ After all, I am the QueenÄ/ That I'd like a little rest/ On a bed that's... in between?" Brooker comically depicts the ruler in her "knickerbocker nightgown" tiptoeing past a waiting bubble bath on her way to attempt a nap and later bug-eyed with a scroll's worth of tally marks for counting sheep. The collage and oil paint illustrations lend a tactile, nearly three-dimensional quality to the pile of pillows and mattresses the castle minions have assembled for the queen's slumber. And if the text itself focuses primarily on the adult protagonist, Brooker expands the scenery to include young Isabella Abnormella ("Keeper of the Royal Cat") in nearly every spread. So that by the time Isabella pipes up with a solution to the queen's problem (a waterbed), readers will feel affirmed in their growing affection for her, which likely began with page one. Ages 4-8. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
《儿童读物杂志》(Horn Book)书评
In this rollicking picture book, the Queen of Trouble can't sleep a wink. After a series of silly suggestions by the king, young Isabella Abnormella Pinkerton McPugh comes up with a solution--the very first queen-sized waterbed. The quirky collages, a mix of oil paint and photographic images, are energetic and funny, and the rhyming text rolls easily off the tongue. From HORN BOOK Spring 2001, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus评论
The nabob of nonsense verse brings readers to the town of Trouble, situated between Good-Grief! and Who's-to-Blame? ("Three villages exactly almost / Opposite the same . . ."), whose pouting Queen just can't find a comfortable mattress. Brooker (Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street, 1997) uses oil paint, found materials, pieces of cloth, clipped photos, and cut paper to create a sumptuous medieval setting with flattened perspectives, populated with gesticulating figures topped by large, expressive faces. After the King proposes several silly solutions, sprightly young Isabella Abnormella Pinkerton McPugh, Keeper of the Royal Cat, brings peace to the royal household at last (and earns herself Princessdom) by inventing the (wait for it) Queen-Sized Water Bed. A natural for reading aloud, this ballad makes a grin-inducing follow-up to any version of "The Princess and the Pea." (Picture book. 7-10) Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.