Working Mummies
by Joan Horton
illustrated by Drazen Kozjan
Get ready for giggles and ghouls in this celebration of hard-working mommies who also happen to be mummies. Here you'll find a doctor mum curing raspy spooks with coffin syrup and a fang-filling dentist completely wrapped up in her dangerous work. You'll also meet a librarian mummy who has her hands full with book worms, a writer mum conjuring spells for readers, and many others. With visual and verbal puns galore, this scream of a book helps illuminate the mysterious world where so many mommies disappear every day - and may also explain why some of them come home slightly unravelled.
close this panelJOAN HORTON's Math Attack! was praised as "ingenious" by Family Fun magazine . She lives in Glastonbury, Connecticut.
DRAZEN KOZJAN has illustrated several books, including Diary of A Fairy Godmother by Esme Raji Codell, Julia Gillian (and the Art of Knowing) by Alison McGhee, and Robert Kinerk's Oh, How Sylvester Can Pester! He lives in Toronto, Ontario.
close this panelMATH ATTACK (2009)
"Author Joan Horton's rhyming narrative sets a hilariously hyperbolic scene . . . . An ingenious riff on the rigors of multiplication, the text gains even more energy from Kyrsten Brooker's dynamic oil paint and collage illustrations." - Family Fun Magazine
"The high-energy artwork will entertain." - Publishers Weekly
"The rhyming text is well cadenced, with carefully chosen words that flow easily. Rich paint and collage illustrations combine textures and colors with numbers spilling over the pages." - School Library Journal
"The creative juxtaposition of different textures and off-kilter picture components gives a vivid sense of the story's chaotic events. Absurd and amusing." - Booklist
HALLOWEEN HOOTS AND HOWLS (2008)
"Zesty, candy-corny poems . . . The mixed-media cartoons . . . anticipate but never upstage the inventive punch lines." - Publishers Weekly
"A deliciously silly collection of Halloween poems, rhymes, and jokes. . . . A festive addition to any collection serving young trick-or-treaters." - School Library Journal
"Sassy and chantable." - The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
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