Tweak Tweak is one of Jules Danielson's Top 10 Picture Books of 2011 she compiled for Kirkus! Thank you Jules!
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By: Sergio Ruzzier,
on 11/27/2011
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By: Sergio Ruzzier,
on 6/15/2011
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By: Sergio Ruzzier,
on 11/27/2011
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on 6/15/2011
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| Little Elephant and her mom, from Tweak Tweak. |
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| An old Steiff elephant on wheels. |
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| From a medieval English manuscript. |
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| A grass family. |
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| Babar, of course. |
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By: Sergio Ruzzier,
on 6/14/2011
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This Saturday, June 18th, from 12 to 2, I will be at Books of Wonder to talk about Tweak Tweak. With me there will be other authors and illustrators: Javaka Steptoe, Chris Raschka, Greg Foley, and Teresa E. Harris.  
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By: Sergio Ruzzier,
on 5/25/2011
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 While on a walk, Mama Elephant’s baby holds onto her tail and “tweaks twice” to ask a question. Little Elephant’s curiosity is piqued many times along the way. The parent-child discussion is sweet and encouraging: “‘Mama? What is that?’ ‘That is a frog.’ ‘What is he doing?’ ‘He’s jumping.’ ‘Can I jump?’ ‘No, because you are not a frog. You are a little elephant. But you can stomp your foot and make a big sound.’” [...] Ruzzier’s ink and watercolor illustrations charmingly capture the youngster’s imaginings as she leaps over cliffs (with worried frogs looking on) and croons to an audience of bemused birds. The gentle text is perfect for sharing with toddlers. Linda Ludke, London Public Library, Ontario, Canada 
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By: Sergio Ruzzier,
on 5/4/2011
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 [...] The pairing of Bunting’s traditional text, powered by an elegant repeating structure, with Ruzzier’s offbeat art is unexpectedly fabulous. The surreal, rather Seussian landscape (check out those hallucinatory flowers and purple hills) makes the transition to the spreads of Little Elephant’s imagined experiences effortless; the spare spikiness is also a salutary contrast to the elephants’ rounded forms and general adorableness. Martha V. Parravano  
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By: Sergio Ruzzier,
on 4/20/2011
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By: Sergio Ruzzier,
on 3/24/2011
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 This book presents a pretty and friendly world, in which Mama Elephant is blue, Little Elephant is white and rosy, the sand is peach and every animal wears an expression of contented amusement. (...) As they walk, Little imagines climbing an acacia tree like the monkeys, flying with a very anthropomorphic and beruffled butterfly and singing like a bird, only to learn what elephants do instead. Mama praises her for asking questions, so she can learn and grow to be "a big, strong, smart, beautiful elephant"�just like her Mama, suggests Little Elephant. In a nice touch, it is Little who leads Mama back home, past all the animals they saw on their walk. Captures exactly and sweetly a developmental ideal for both child and parent. 
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By: Sergio Ruzzier,
on 3/24/2011
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 On a walk in the wild, Little Elephant asks her mother about each creature they see: What is it? What is it doing? And can Little Elephant do that, too? "Can I jump like a frog?" she asks on one spread, and the soft-toned, line-and-wash illustrations show the young animal imagining herself leaping from a cliff. (...) Young children will enjoy following Little Elephant's fantasies, depicted in the uncluttered, double-page spreads, all the way to the story's climax, which celebrates what Little Elephant really is, as well as the big, strong creature she will grow up to be. Along with the imaginative silliness, the nurturing parent-child tenderness is the core of the story. Hazel Rochman 
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LOVE this! It's beautiful!
Sergio, this is awesome! Happy Easter to you :)