![]() The result is just realistic enough to be perfect, a grade-schooler's idyllic summer with limited demands for learning and bettering and a whole lot of reveling in kid priorities. ![]() ![]() This sweetly captures the pleasures of youthful time-wasting in the company of your best friend with a keen understanding that those pleasures are best when they're unsentimental. Add in some snarky and boisterous grade-school humor, and you've got A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever. Truly stellar summer books, such as Lynne Rae Perkins' Pictures from Our Vacation can evoke the weirdness and unexpected magic of summer's free-form experiences even in the darkest season. (starred review), "Summer can seem a long time away during the colder portions of the year, and summer books can hold a special promise and poignancy in the long run-up until the months of freedom. ![]() This intergenerational story will elicit howls of laughter and requests for repeated readings. *Frazee brings out the typical energy of a couple of boys who may scoff at nature and seem to prefer watching TV, but it is through her artful illustrations that readers catch glimpses of just how savvy and creative these kids can be. ![]()
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