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Toot and Puddle
Toot and Puddle
Author: Holly Hobbie
Two friends, Toot and Puddle, live together in Woodcock Pocket. One day, Toot takes off to see the world, while Puddle decides to stay home. This is the story of their wonderful adventure both far away and right at home all year long.  It's a story about being yourself and being a good friend.
ISBN-13: 9780316365529
ISBN-10: 0316365521
Publication Date: 9/1/1997
Pages: 32
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Rating:
  • Currently 4.8/5 Stars.
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4.8 stars, based on 5 ratings
Publisher: Little Brown
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
Members Wishing: 0
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badmom5 avatar reviewed Toot and Puddle on + 39 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Puddle stays home while Toot travels the world. Toot sends postcards back to Puddle as he travels. My kids love the way the story is told through the postcards. Wonderful read.
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Helpful Score: 1
The activities of a homebody and an enthusiastic world traveler are contrasted in illustrations brimming with humor. Two anthropomorphic pigs live in the country setting of Woodcock Pocket. There, Puddle turns his head to the sun streaming in his kitchen window as he makes popcorn on the stove. Meanwhile, Toot peers at the globe with a magnifying glass, planning an ambitious trip. He asks Puddle along, but goes forth alone, and from then on, the experiences of the two are laid side by side on the double-page spreads. A monthly postcard from Toot is reproduced over an illustration from his year-long adventure (scaling cliffs in the Alps, visiting an Italian pastry shop, taking a camel ride through Egypt, etc.), and a sort of reply comes from a scene of Puddle savoring events on the home front: gathering maple sap for syrup, playing in spring mud, painting a self-portrait, or trying out a Halloween mask. In Hobbie's expert watercolors are dozens of inventive touches--Puddle wearing a shower cap in the bath, Toot floating among hippos, some of his limbs breaking the surface in a subtle mimicry of their stances, funny allusions to famous art or locales; the book and its heroes are endearing, and readers will want to see more of Woodcock Pocket soon.
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JaneEire avatar reviewed Toot and Puddle on
Sweet story and pictures by Holly Hobbie.


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