The accomplished artwork underscores the children's easy acceptance of Beegu and highlights the book's uplifting message that acts of kindness have lasting effects.

'Earth creatures were mostly big and unfriendly,' Beegu tells them, 'but there were some small ones who seemed hopeful.' She gazes wistfully out the spaceship window at the receding earth: 'Beegu would always remember those small ones.' Beegu's black outline and solid yellow center evoke a celestial simplicity, and affectingly contrast with the solidly inked, earthbound human figures. When her parents come at last to rescue her, beaming up Beegu to their spaceship in a bath of green light, she tells them of her adventure (expressed as a word balloon filled with exotic-looking hieroglyphics). A desolate illustration depicts Beegu alone, stretched out under the night sky. Overview View 3 Editions Details Reviews Lists Related Books. I love how the children and puppies in this story are so welcoming to Beegu and it’s a big part of this story how the adults are not so welcoming. Beegu by Alexis Deacon, 2003, Farrar, Straus and Giroux edition, in English - 1st. 2308 in Books and Resources for Schools Catalogue 2023 Format. Beegu snuggles with a litter of puppies and joins a schoolyard full of children at recess, but the dog-shelter owner and a forbidding primary school teacher put an end to her short-lived fun. Beegu is a very endearing character, a young alien who searches for its mother, and for local friends.

While looking for some friends, the lost alien thinks she hears her mother calling and is led into a big city where, instead, she. Deacon's ( Slow Loris) simple text follows Beegu on her wanderings skillful pacing incorporates full-bleed spreads plus panel and spot illustrations, and the artwork emphasizes the dolefulness of earth, the city's gray gutters and stark fences. Synopsis: From School Library Journal: Kindergarten-Grade 2-Children will sympathize with Beegu, a cuddly, yellow extraterrestrial, when her spaceship crashes and strands her far from home. Beegu, a winsome, banana-yellow alien with floppy ears that trail on the ground, crash-lands on earth and sets off in search of her mother.

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