Books by Michael Slack and Complete Book Reviews

Michael Slack, Holt/Ottaviano, $12.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-8878-6
An absurd but kid-pleasing amalgam of a primate and a flatbed truck (complete with four wheels and ears-as-side-mirrors) is the troubleshooting hero of Slack's (Knuckleheads) boisterous first solo effort. Garish digital art drives the action, as...
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Michael Slack. Holt/Ottaviano, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-62779-194-6
Slack’s animal-vehicle heroes have vigilantly patrolled from the air (Elecopter) and on land (Monkey Truck). Now, the author-illustrator takes to the seas with a turtle that has a tugboat’s hull and wheelhouse for a shell, and a jaunty blue...
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Michael Slack. Little Simon, $7.99 (36p) ISBN 978-1-5344-0567-7
Two robots—Standroid, who is pink and tall with shovel-shaped legs and a long neck, and Dandroid, who is stocky and yellow—are charged up with “Positron Juice” and ready to go: “All Systems Activating. Initiating play sequence.” As the title...
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Michael Slack. Holt/Ottaviano, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-62779-271-4
A boy receives a plush purple dragon for his birthday, and the two become inseparable. Digital vignettes by Slack (Sharing Does Not Compute), rendered in warm, muted tones and soft, mottled textures, show the dragon supporting the child in tough...
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Michael Slack. Dial, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-593-10838-3
A rascally trio—one pink, one striped yellow, and one patchy gray feline—who live on cat-shaped Kitty Island have “climbed everything there is to climb” and now have a lofty new goal: scaling the three dinosaurs they’ve spotted on nearby Dinosaur...
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Dean Hale, illus. by Michael Slack. Bloomsbury, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-59990-468-9
Whenever anything suspicious happens in the Choat home, young Jimmy Choat pins it on "the family's spare goat, Patsy Petunia Oat." (It's unclear why the goat is "spare," since she is the only pet.) The goggle-eyed, pink-nosed goat always objects,...
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