Beware the Blue Bagoo | 
pickKarl Newson and Andrea Stegmaier‘s utterly charming rhyming picture book warns about the danger of believing rumours by highlighting how the rumours get worse and worse the more they spread. Rhyming narration can be very forced and leave me underwhelmed but I think Newson‘s text works well here (especially the children speaking to the detective) and Stegmaier‘s bold, bright illustrations are a delight - especially the detective‘s deerstalker hat.
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Five star read. This book needs to be read aloud to truly love. The cadence and the pattern to the story are just as important as the story itself and I love that this is not a typical cadence. We have a student who is trying to find out what the blue Bagoo is. The rumor around town is it‘s big and hairy. It‘s nasty it‘s mean. But sometimes a rumor is just a rumor and people or baggees are not the horrible thing they‘ve been made
