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kidscanpress.com presents ...
	Big City Otto written and illustrated by Bill Slavin For information - including sample spreads, free downloadables and more - go to www.kidscanpress.com/US/product.aspx?productid=3220

Hardcover USD $16.95 978-1-55453-476-0 Paperback USD $7.95 978-1-55453-477-7 Grades: 3 to 6 Ages: 8 to 11 Language Arts Genre, Literature, Understanding adventure graphic novels humor Reading Levels: Fountas & Pinnell N Grade Level 3 © 2011 4-color 6 x 8 3/4 80 pages	Otto is a lumbering, sweet-natured elephant who can't forget his childhood chum Georgie, a smiley-faced chimpanzee who was abducted and shipped away from their forest home by the mysterious and sinister Man with the Wooden Nose. Accompanied by a wisecracking but protective parrot named Crackers, Otto decides to hop a plane and look for Georgie in America. But once they hit the wild streets of the concrete jungle, Otto and Crackers court trouble at every turn — even becoming unwittingly involved in the seedy alligator underworld dominating the city sewers. And little do these out-of-place out-oftowners realize that they, too, are being doggedly pursued across the city — by the local police! Will the authorities catch Otto and Crackers? Will Otto and Crackers find Georgie? Who is the Man with the Wooden Nose? And what's an elephant doing sporting a trenchcoat and fedora? Reviews “Not for every reader, but fans of comics reminiscent of simpler times will certainly enjoy this.” — Kirkus Reviews, August 2011 “Drawn in a colorful cartoon style, with plenty of corny jokes and visual gags, this is a gentle, humorous adventure that children should enjoy.” — School Library Journal, November 2011

kidscanpress.com presents ...
	Big City Otto written and illustrated by Bill Slavin For information - including sample spreads, free downloadables and more - go to www.kidscanpress.com/US/product.aspx?productid=3220

Hardcover USD $16.95 978-1-55453-476-0 Paperback USD $7.95 978-1-55453-477-7 Grades: 3 to 6 Ages: 8 to 11 Language Arts Genre, Literature, Understanding adventure graphic novels humor Reading Levels: Fountas & Pinnell N Grade Level 3 © 2011 4-color 6 x 8 3/4 80 pages	Otto is a lumbering, sweet-natured elephant who can't forget his childhood chum Georgie, a smiley-faced chimpanzee who was abducted and shipped away from their forest home by the mysterious and sinister Man with the Wooden Nose. Accompanied by a wisecracking but protective parrot named Crackers, Otto decides to hop a plane and look for Georgie in America. But once they hit the wild streets of the concrete jungle, Otto and Crackers court trouble at every turn — even becoming unwittingly involved in the seedy alligator underworld dominating the city sewers. And little do these out-of-place out-oftowners realize that they, too, are being doggedly pursued across the city — by the local police! Will the authorities catch Otto and Crackers? Will Otto and Crackers find Georgie? Who is the Man with the Wooden Nose? And what's an elephant doing sporting a trenchcoat and fedora? Reviews “Not for every reader, but fans of comics reminiscent of simpler times will certainly enjoy this.” — Kirkus Reviews, August 2011 “Drawn in a colorful cartoon style, with plenty of corny jokes and visual gags, this is a gentle, humorous adventure that children should enjoy.” — School Library Journal, November 2011

kidscanpress.com presents ...
	Big City Otto written and illustrated by Bill Slavin For information - including sample spreads, free downloadables and more - go to www.kidscanpress.com/US/product.aspx?productid=3220

Hardcover USD $16.95 978-1-55453-476-0 Paperback USD $7.95 978-1-55453-477-7 Grades: 3 to 6 Ages: 8 to 11 Language Arts Genre, Literature, Understanding adventure graphic novels humor Reading Levels: Fountas & Pinnell N Grade Level 3 © 2011 4-color 6 x 8 3/4 80 pages	Otto is a lumbering, sweet-natured elephant who can't forget his childhood chum Georgie, a smiley-faced chimpanzee who was abducted and shipped away from their forest home by the mysterious and sinister Man with the Wooden Nose. Accompanied by a wisecracking but protective parrot named Crackers, Otto decides to hop a plane and look for Georgie in America. But once they hit the wild streets of the concrete jungle, Otto and Crackers court trouble at every turn — even becoming unwittingly involved in the seedy alligator underworld dominating the city sewers. And little do these out-of-place out-oftowners realize that they, too, are being doggedly pursued across the city — by the local police! Will the authorities catch Otto and Crackers? Will Otto and Crackers find Georgie? Who is the Man with the Wooden Nose? And what's an elephant doing sporting a trenchcoat and fedora? Reviews “Not for every reader, but fans of comics reminiscent of simpler times will certainly enjoy this.” — Kirkus Reviews, August 2011 “Drawn in a colorful cartoon style, with plenty of corny jokes and visual gags, this is a gentle, humorous adventure that children should enjoy.” — School Library Journal, November 2011

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Otto is a lumbering, sweet-natured elephant who can't forget his childhood chum Georgie, a smiley-faced chimpanzee who was abducted and shipped away from their forest home by the mysterious and sinister Man with the Wooden Nose. Accompanied by a wisecracking but protective parrot named Crackers, Otto decides to hop a plane and look for Georgie in America. But once they hit the wild streets of the concrete jungle, Otto and Crackers court trouble at every turn — even becoming unwittingly involved in the seedy alligator underworld dominating the city sewers. And little do these out-of-place out-oftowners realize that they, too, are being doggedly pursued across the city — by the local police! Will the authorities catch Otto and Crackers? Will Otto and Crackers find Georgie? Who is the Man with the Wooden Nose? And what's an elephant doing sporting a trenchcoat and fedora?

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Language Arts

Genre, Literature, Understanding

adventure

graphic novels

humor

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Fountas & Pinnell

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Hardcover

978-1-55453-476-0

Paperback

978-1-55453-477-7

Reviews

“Not for every reader, but fans of comics reminiscent of simpler times will certainly enjoy this.”: — Kirkus Reviews, August 2011
“Drawn in a colorful cartoon style, with plenty of corny jokes and visual gags, this is a gentle, humorous adventure that children should enjoy.”: — School Library Journal, November 2011