Awards

• Short-listed for Garden State Children's Book Awards (Easy Readers) 2016

Overview

"Matilda teaches her little sister Clemmie all the delights of a wet Saturday. Also available in Spanish as El globo grande y mojado A Parents Magazine Best Book of the Year. When her sister, Clemmie, refuses to play in the rain, Matilda wants to teach her the delights of a wet Saturday. They end up learning an unforgettable lesson. Kirkus Reviews declared, ""This warm and accessible story is sure to be a favorite."""

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9781935179320

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[A] tender, accurate depiction of sister dynamics, including the lessons they invariably learn from each other, and Liniers's cartoon drawings capture the siblings' distinct, expressive personalities.--The Horn Book (starred review)Celebrated Argentine cartoonist Liniers offers a warm visual welcome to early readers in this graphic novel; lively watercolors in comic format provide plenty of memorable images and details to examine and savor. The gentle humor and mild suspense will quickly draw readers in, while brief sentences and appropriately challenging vocabulary, flawlessly interwoven with pictures that provide visual cues, leave room for readers to decipher, consider and comprehend. ... An excellent example of how well comics can work for early readers, this warm and accessible story is sure to be a favorite.--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Author Information

Ricardo Liniers Siri lives in Buenos Aires with his wife and two daughters, Matilda and Clementina, who inspired The Big Wet Balloon. For more than ten years, he has published a hugely popular daily strip, Macanudo, in the Argentine newspaper La Nación. He also tours the world drawing on stage with musician Kevin Johansen. His work has been published in nine countries from Brazil to the Czech Republic, but The Big Wet Balloon is his first book in the United States.

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