Overview
Bob's tricycle is broken and he needs a wrench to fix it. He ventures out to buy one at the Megamart, where slick salesman, Mr. Mart, convinces Bob that it's not a wrench he needs, but a fridge hat...singing pajamas...a screaming machine! Bob spends all his money on things that he really doesn't need and before he knows it has no money and no wrench. Lively illustrations and quirky hand-lettering make The Wrench a delight to read while also conveying an important message about consumerism and excess.
Full Product Details
Author: Elise Gravel ,
Charles Simard
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Imprint: Orca Book Publishers
Dimensions:
Width: 22.40cm
, Height: 1.00cm
, Length: 27.20cm
Weight: 0.476kg
ISBN: 9781459824492
ISBN 10: 1459824490
Pages: 32
Publication Date: 13 October 2020
Recommended Age: From 3 to 5 years
Audience:
Children/juvenile
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Children / Juvenile
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Language: French
Reviews
Colorful and comical. --Kirkus Reviews Parents and teachers hoping to teach their children to be less acquisitive now have another tool in their belt (a new one, yes, but a good one). Recommended. --CM: Canadian Review of Materials
Although Bob gets bonked on the noggin, Gravel does not do so to her young readers. The gentle anticonsumerism message is embedded in an entertaining story...An excellent primer on the value of time and money before the allowance years hit. -- Quill & Quire Colorful and comical. -- Kirkus Reviews Lighthearted...Hip [and] colorful. -- Publishers Weekly Parents and teachers hoping to teach their children to be less acquisitive now have another tool in their belt (a new one, yes, but a good one). Recommended. -- CM: Canadian Review of Materials
Lighthearted...Hip [and] colorful. --Publishers Weekly Colorful and comical. --Kirkus Reviews Parents and teachers hoping to teach their children to be less acquisitive now have another tool in their belt (a new one, yes, but a good one). Recommended. --CM: Canadian Review of Materials
Colorful and comical. -- Kirkus Reviews Lighthearted...Hip [and] colorful. -- Publishers Weekly Parents and teachers hoping to teach their children to be less acquisitive now have another tool in their belt (a new one, yes, but a good one). Recommended. -- CM: Canadian Review of Materials
Author Information
Elise Gravel is an award-winning author and illustrator. Well known for her odd critters and unusual drawing style, Elise creates books that are popular with adults and children alike. In 2012 she won the Governor General's Award for French-language illustration for La clé à molette, the original French version of The Wrench. This is her third book with Orca, following A Potato on a Bike and I am Scary. Elise lives in Montreal with her husband, two daughters and two cranky cats. Charles Simard is a Québécois editor and translator from Tiohtià꞉ke / Montréal. He works as poetry, fiction, and nonfiction editor for Talonbooks in Vancouver on Coast Salish Territory. His published work includes the essay Littérature, analyse et forme: Herbert, Tolkien, Borges, Eco (EUE, 2010) and a number of translations for Orca Book Publishers, including Elise Gravel's The Wrench and Myriam Daguzan Bernier's dictionary of sexuality, Naked!. As a lexicographer, he has collaborated on the making of the popular linguistic suite Antidote in its bilingual editions. He holds a PhD in literature from Université de Montréal and was a postdoctoral fellow at the City University of New York's Graduate Center.
