"The textured mixed-media art paired with the flowing text elevates this title above most missing-mama fare. "Marino's breathtaking panoramas make an already powerful story sing." -Publishers Weekly, starred review PRAISE FOR GIANNA'S FIRST BOOK, MEET ME AT THE MOON (Sept.) Copyright 2012 Publishers Weekly, LLC Used with permission. Agent: Deborah Warren, East West Literary Agency. It's a story with universal appeal and a very particular sense of place. Wind blows the houses from side to side, and vegetables and twigs go flying fortunately, although the animals are falling from miles up, both land safely-and, of course, discover that cooperation is better than competition. I can't see the forest!" Owl adds another story to his dwelling while "Rabbit watched and chittered his teeth." Rabbit retaliates, building still higher, and they're off, each outdoing the other until a spread shows two impossibly tall structures teetering far above Earth's surface, the rabbit and owl barely hanging on at the very top. The two animals have been friends for ages, but now there's a conflict: "Rabbit!" cries Owl. Rabbit's flat-topped brick house looks like a small pueblo, while his neighbor Owl's dwelling is an intricately woven covered nest. Marino's (Meet Me at the Moon) gouache and pencil spreads feature sun-baked color, lots of movement, and wide Southwestern vistas they provide most of the story's kick. This story about friendship and togetherness contains a great lesson without being didactic or moralizing and should be welcome in most collections.- Yelena Alekseyeva-Popova, formerly at Chappaqua Library, NY Copyright 2012 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
Marino interjects a few humorous details throughout the story-the expressions of grumpy Owl getting watered by Rabbit or flying with a squashed tomato on his head are priceless. The animals are full of heartfelt emotions, from anger and frustration to happy contentment. Laid out in spreads, the illustrations feature impeccably detailed pencil drawings combined with sumptuously colored gouache backgrounds.
With their dwellings in ruins, the former friends wisely decide that it is much better to join forces and build one small house, where they settle in harmony. When the houses become impossibly sky-high, cartoonishly looming over continents, a formidable wind blows them down. Angry Owl makes his abode taller, Rabbit follows suit, and a construction race ensues. Trouble starts when Rabbit's plants grow too tall, blocking Owl's vista. Rabbit tends to his vegetable garden and Owl perches on the roof, gazing at the forest. K-Gr 2-Owl and Rabbit live side by side in two small huts.
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