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This nostalgic adaptation of a 1950 Academy Award-winning animated cartoon features Dr. Seuss"s inimitable rhymes, plus images from Crawford"s original animation stills, which he based on Seuss"s drawings. Gerald McCloy, a saucer-eyed boy with a rooster"s comb of hair, doesn"t talk like a normal kid. Instead, he makes noises, "louder and louder/ Till one day he went BOOM!/ like a big keg of powder!" Gerald"s onomatopoeic talents shock his parents (shown as a classic "50s shirt-and-tie father and bouffant-haired mother in an apron and heels); further, he earns the unkind playground nickname "Gerald McBoing Boing." Dr. Seuss states the issue succinctly: "When a fellow goes SKREEK!/ he won"t have any friends./ For once he says, "Clang clang clang!"/ all the fun ends." Gerald prepares to hop a train out of town, but he"s stopped by a radio mogul in search of a sound-effects specialist. As in The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, eccentricity pays off, big time: "Now Gerald is rich,/ he has friends, he"s well fed,/ "Cause he doesn"t speak words,/ he goes boing boing instead!" If the conclusion is a tad materialistic, Gerald does appear happy on the soundstage, dressed as a cowboy for a radio serial. Fans of retro graphics will thrill to the vintage illustrations, in shades of olive green, mustardy ochre and spicy red; the snazzy contrasting typefaces used for the sound effects make it easy for Gerald"s admirers to honk and clang energetically along. Ages 5-8. (Feb.)
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