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Summary
What's all the arguing about? There are plenty of Hueys to go around in this hilarious story from the #1 bestselling illustrator of The Day the Crayons Quit !
The Hueys are back! Oliver Jeffers' jelly bean-shaped creatures may look the same, think the same, and even do the same things, but that doesn't mean they always agree. The only problem is, they can't seem to agree on what they disagreed on in the first place! Which ultimately leads to an even bigger disagreement! Confused? Well, so are the Hueys. Which only adds to the fun and hilarity.
Anyone who has ever had to referee an argument among siblings or friends will appreciate the absurdity Oliver Jeffers reveals in the every-day trials of getting along.
Oliver Jeffers is the New York Times bestselling author/illustrator of Stuck , The Incredible Book-Eating Boy , This Moose Belongs to Me , Lost and Found , How to Catch a Star , The Heart in the Bottle (which is also a highly-acclaimed iPad app narrated by Helena Bonham Carter) and many more. He is also the ilustrator of the mega-selling The Day the Crayons Quit , written by Drew Daywalt. His books have won numerous awards, including the Nestlé Children's Book Prize Gold Award, the Blue Peter Book of the Year, and the Irish Book Awards Children's Book of the Year.
Author Notes
Oliver Jeffers was born in Port Hedland, Western Australia in 1977. He grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He received a First Class Honors Degree in illustration and visual communication and certificate of foundation studies from the University of Ulster, School of Art and Design in 2001. His work has been exhibited in multiple cities, including the National Portrait Gallery in London, the Brooklyn Museum, and Gestalten Space in Berlin.
He writes and illustrates picture books. His debut book, How to Catch a Star, was published in 2004 and won a Merit Award at the CBI/Bisto Book of Year Awards. His second book, Lost and Found, won the Gold Award at Nestle Children's Book Prize and was developed into an animated short film, which has received over sixty awards including a BAFTA for Best Animated Short Film. His other books include The Incredible Book Eating Boy, The Great Paper Caper, Up and Down, Stuck, This Moose Belongs to Me, Once upon an Alphabet: Short Stories for All Letters, The Hueys series and A Child of Books. He has won numerous awards including the Smarties Award, Irish Book of the Year, The Blue Peter Book of the Year, and the 2017 Academy of British Cover Design Award in the Children's category.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (4)
Publisher's Weekly Review
Jeffers's first book about the Hueys quietly extolled the virtues of nonconformity; with equal subtlety (and a touch of dark humor) he explores disagreement in this sequel. "The thing about the Hueys," Jeffers writes of his egg-shaped, stick-legged crew, "was that most of the time they got along." But when they fight-Jeffers depicts their argument as a joint speech bubble filled with scribbles, scrawls, storm cloud, hammer, and skull-and-crossbones-it's up to a Huey named Gillespie to set things right. What's his trick? Distraction. "Want to see a dead fly?" he asks, and everyone does, naturally. A stylish and sophisticated story that reminds readers that some fights aren't worth having. Ages 3-5. (Jan.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Horn Book Review
In their second book, the Hueys, who usually get along with one another, devolve into an argument, which Jeffers depicts as a communal dialogue bubble showing a storm. When Gillespie Huey asks what the others are arguing about, the Hueys are speechless--and colorless (Jeffers switches to black-and-white). The illustrations, featuring a cast that resembles eggs with stick limbs, tell the story expertly. (c) Copyright 2014. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
The Hueys are back, and this time they're testy. Jeffers opens his latest story about a cast of stick-limbed, jelly-beanshaped, multicolored characters with the line: "The thing about the Hueys / was that most of the time they got along." With this setup, the art on the next page then illustrates a time when they don't. Jeffers eschews background detail and places the Hueys on empty white or monochromatic pages with just scribbled indications of ground and shadow as they stand about talking. The fearlessly spare setting enables the Hueys' simple forms to stand out; speech balloons visually describe their mounting anger. (These are filled first with whimsical flying creatures and objects, then with expressive abstract scribbling to indicate anger and finally with hand-lettered script.) Finally, when a Huey named Gillespie happens upon the scene and asks, "What are you fighting for?" the conflict escalates as one after another denies blame, which gives rise to the book's title. Gillespie, a peacemaker to his Huey core, persists and asks, "WHAT ARE you Fighting ABOUT?" This stumps his peers, and a page drained of all color captures the chagrined silence of this shift in the story. Not one to gloat or rub his cohorts' faces in their pettiness, Gillespie quickly distracts his pals with an enticing invitation: "want to SEE a DEAD Fly?" And who wouldn't? Want to SEE a GOOD Book? Read this one. (Picture book. 4-7)]]]] Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
The Hueys (first introduced in The Hueys in the New Sweater, 2012) are back in a bigger format and with a new quandary. The opening endpapers show our round, resolute friends having a conversation about how to address a pesky fly (the conversation, in typical Jeffers fashion, happens in pictures, not words). The story continues with five differently colored Hueys enthusing about all manner of flying objects, but soon, out of nowhere, discord arrives and an argument ensues. Just when things are at their most out of control, Gillespie Huey asks what everyone is fighting about. No one knows, so they decide to go look at a dead fly, content and collegial once more. Jeffers is a master of this sort of wry humor, with his deeply expressive gestures; generous, empty backgrounds; and quirky charm. The explosion of the argument and stillness of the solution resonates on just the right frequency, distilling complex emotion into something manageable and entertaining. Kids will recognize themselves here, over and over again.--Barthelmess, Thom Copyright 2010 Booklist