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easmith29's review against another edition
3.0
Really cute kid's book. I was hooked from the first page:
"I was working the robbery detail out of the Pinecone Division. My name's Binky. I'm a cop."
The art is detailed and beautiful. It definitely reads like a noir, and I kind of wished the illustrations matched the tone.
"I was working the robbery detail out of the Pinecone Division. My name's Binky. I'm a cop."
The art is detailed and beautiful. It definitely reads like a noir, and I kind of wished the illustrations matched the tone.
engpunk77's review against another edition
3.0
Reads like "Guy Noir, Private Eye," which parodies the film noir genre and the conventions of hardboiled fiction. This frog cop handles a bunch of fairy tales and nursery rhymes as crime investigations in which the perpetrators are locked up for good. For example, the last line of the Three Bears section: "Down at the station, [Goldilocks] confessed. 'I was hungry and tired,' she said. They'll feed her three meals a day where she's going, and she'll have plenty of time to rest" along with an illustration of poor little Goldilocks behind bars with a "Case Closed" stamp across it. Cute.
I'd use this as a prompt for creative writing (mimicking tone, style, voice, etc. of a favorite piece), a read-aloud or center activity in a unit on perspective, tone, point of view, voice, conventions of genre, etc.
I'd use this as a prompt for creative writing (mimicking tone, style, voice, etc. of a favorite piece), a read-aloud or center activity in a unit on perspective, tone, point of view, voice, conventions of genre, etc.
msmecarr's review against another edition
4.0
This was another super fun book. The best part was that the narrator was a noir type detective who was trying to solve all the cases. My students loved it when I read it in an old 1940s private eye type voice. Now they want to see some old detective movies from the 40s. How cool is that!
hermione617's review against another edition
4.0
Cool. Reminded me a little of Hoodwinked, but it was nowhere close to as funny in comparison. LoL. Mini stories with the detective. Good illustrations. Good for teaching cause & effect, drawing conclusions, and main idea & supporting details.
bdietrich's review
2.0
Read for 5420 class
I wasn't too impressed with Who Pushed Humpty Dumpty. The idea of a police investigator solving nursery rhyme and fairytale mysteries, but Levinthal and Nickle try to push too much text on one page. Additionally, the illustrations are not very impressive. I like the use of color vs. sepia tones when victims tell what happened, but, the actual artistic style is quite upsetting and doesn't seem very appropriate for the intended audience.
I wasn't too impressed with Who Pushed Humpty Dumpty. The idea of a police investigator solving nursery rhyme and fairytale mysteries, but Levinthal and Nickle try to push too much text on one page. Additionally, the illustrations are not very impressive. I like the use of color vs. sepia tones when victims tell what happened, but, the actual artistic style is quite upsetting and doesn't seem very appropriate for the intended audience.
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