Graphic Novel # 3

Author: Scott Morse
Title: Magic Pickle
Publisher: Scholastic Inc Date: 2008

Age level: Primary (K-2) Elementary (3-4)

Summary:
What happens when a science experience goes wrong and produce is accidentally turned into good and evil? Magic pickles happen! Weapon Kosher has been awaken and is trying to round out the bad vegetables before they cause trouble in the city. In the process he makes friends with a young girl, Jo Jo, who has her own problems with a bully at school. Maybe they can help each other at the same time…

Strengths:
The storyline of this book is priceless. It is well thought out and definitely something children would love. The girl is really sassy and the pickle tries to be somewhat of an gentleman. The story weaves together nicely and everything is explained really well. The illustrations in this book are very well done and greatly enhance the story. It is a truly entertaining graphic novel which uses a lot of play-on-words and pokes fun at stereotypes.

Concerns:
The only real concern is that the pickle does not really look that much like a pickle…

Classroom use/Other comments:
This is just a fun book to have around the classroom for children to read when they have free time. It can also be used to talk about safety when conducting science experiments.