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Jasper & Ollie Build a Fort

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Celebrate the wonderful (and hilarious) ways in which friends can be different in this laugh-out-loud odd-couple story.
Best friends Jasper, a quick and feisty fox, and Ollie, a slow and deliberate sloth, decide to build forts in the yard. While Jasper's enormous fort goes up in minutes (complete with a rock climbing wall, bouncy, castle, and moat), it's Ollie's humble fort that has what the pair need most . . . a place that they can share.
This highly visual story allows young readers to easily recognize the differences between the two pals, as Jasper's increasingly frenzied building contrasts with Ollie's more reserved and planned approach. It's a smartly paced, hugely funny celebration of our differences. Kids AND grown-ups will giggle as they decide if they're more of a "Jasper" or an "Ollie." Which one are you?
Parents will also appreciate the subtle lesson of mindfulness, told with humor, as impatient Jasper comes to understand that being first and fastest isn't always best.
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    • Kirkus

      March 1, 2020
      The mismatched pals from Jasper & Ollie (2019) are back. Jasper, an impulsive, know-it-all fox, and chum Ollie, a deliberate sloth, decide to hold a fort-building contest. Or, rather, Jasper decides. The duo gets down to it. Jasper speedily and haphazardly slaps together a messy, precarious, dangerous-looking structure, adding to it an extra story, duct tape, and outlandish embellishments, including a moat and a self-aggrandizing statue. In contrast, Ollie gathers proper tools, consults a blueprint, then builds a fort slowly, carefully, and logically. Surprise! When Jasper's masterpiece is revealed, it thunders to the ground, a casualty of overweight and faulty construction. Jasper's disconsolate. The very embodiment of a great friend, Ollie consoles Jasper with an invitation into an impeccably built treehouse that, as a curtain reveals, has cozy "room for two." In a most satisfying conclusion--and with an uncharacteristic admission--Jasper concedes that Ollie's fort is best, though not without adding a "Jasper" to it. This is a rollicking story of two endearing friends pitted against each other in a comical non-competition, and readers, having recognized all along that this was never really a contest, will chuckle over Jasper's raucous antics. The delightful, energetic illustrations depict Jasper's riotous efforts on spreads and recto pages; Ollie's labors appear on verso pages. Capitalized letters and onomatopoeic sound effects incorporated into the text heighten comedic appeal. Friends build a fort and an even stronger relationship. (Picture book. 3-7)

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    • Booklist

      April 1, 2020
      Grades K-3 The fable of The Tortoise and the Hare gets a lively new spin in Willan's second Jasper & Ollie adventure. Two friends?Jasper, a fox, and Ollie, a sloth?decide to build a fort. But Jasper suggests that they should improve on their original idea: they should each build a fort and see whose is better. As Jasper races around at warp speed on the right-hand pages, adding to his increasingly elaborate fort (it needs a second story! a moat to keep out intruders! A ROCK-CLIMBING WALL!), Ollie, on the left-hand side of the book, slowly gathers his tools, finds a tree, and begins construction on a simple, cozy treehouse. When Jasper's imagination gets the best of him and disaster ensues, Ollie's comfortable vision?and, of course, friendship!?save the day. The story is told, graphic novel-style, through speech bubbles and sound effects, amusingly drawn in bold, energetic lines. The odd-couple friendship and the cozy conclusion will leave readers feeling just right.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2020, American Library Association.)

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  • OverDrive Read

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  • English

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  • ATOS Level:1.4
  • Lexile® Measure:440
  • Interest Level:K-3(LG)
  • Text Difficulty:0-2

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