Zig and Wikki in the Cow (Toon Books Level 3)

by Nadja Spiegelman (Author) Trade Loeffler (Illustrator)

Zig and Wikki in the Cow (Toon Books Level 3)
Reading Level: K − 1st Grade
This funny, science-based early reader is packed with fast-paced adventure and facts about poop. What more could a young reader want? Booklist declares that this book, like Zig and Wikki in Something Ate My Homework, "again strikes an effective balance between hijinks and education."
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Gr 2-3--Zig and Wikki are back in a new adventure. While in space, Zig discovers that his pet fly is sick. With the help of Wikki's information screen, he figures out that the fly misses Earth and would be happiest living on a farm. The two pals travel to Earth and look for the perfect dung patty to make his new home. Somewhere along the way, a cow eats their spaceship, so the pair must travel inside the animal to retrieve it, and when the cow burps it out, they're off. The panels of this eye-catching graphic novel are interspersed with boxes that give information about the digestive system of a cow, as well as how things like dung beetles and soil factor into the planet's ecology. A concluding page with "Wikki's Fun Facts" explains, among other things, that "each day, a cow burps out about 400 times more gas than a human does." Zig and Wikki's familiar odd-couple friendship serves as the framework for this science book in disguise. A humorously educational spin on subject matter that is scientifically important, if slightly gross.--Rita Meade, Brooklyn Public Library, NY

Copyright 2012 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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Spiegelman again strikes an effective balance between hijinks and education, giving the aliens straightforward but distinct personalities that play well off each other and incorporating an array of ecological facts in a way that flows with the narrative rather than intrudes upon it. Loeffler's art captures animals with a simple realism and aliens with gentle humor, and gives the whole enterprise a breezy zing.
—Booklist
Nadja Spiegelman
Nadja Spiegelman is the Eisner Award-nominated author of the Zig and Wikki series of science comics for young children and the editor-in-chief of an international literary magazine. Her memoir, I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This, was published by Riverhead. She is a contributing editor at The Paris Review and the co-editor of the 2016- 2017 project Resist!, a magazine of women's political comics and graphics.
Sergio García Sánchez, a professor of comics in Angoulême, France, and at the University of Granada, Spain, is one of Europe's most celebrated experimental cartoonists. His work has been published in over forty-five books and translated into nine languages. He lives in Granada with his wife and collaborator, Lola Moral, who colored the art for this book.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781935179153
Lexile Measure
450
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Toon Books
Publication date
February 14, 2012
Series
Toon Books Level Three
BISAC categories
JUV019000 - Juvenile Fiction | Humorous Stories
JUV053000 - Juvenile Fiction | Science Fiction
JUV008000 - Juvenile Fiction | Comics & Graphic Novels | General
JUV043000 - Juvenile Fiction | Readers | Beginner
JUV002310 - Juvenile Fiction | Animals | Cows
Library of Congress categories
Extraterrestrial beings
United States
Flies
Graphic novels
Comic books, strips, etc
Farms

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