Since learning about the existence of roller coasters, he’s become giddy with excitement. The Pigeon is on an emotional-and physical-roller coaster. I’m sure you can guess what happened.” Finally, Floyd fetches a saw, holds the blade carefully against the tree trunk-“and hurled it up the tree.” The giggle-inducing conclusion leaves some stuff, um, up in the air.įloyd’s stubbornness and the smorgasbord-filled tree remain funny through repeated readings, offering kids the special glee of knowing more than the protagonist. He was going to sort this out once and for all… / … and up he threw it. The comically deadpan narration never overtells, moving straight from “Floyd fetched Mitch” (a cat) to “Cats get stuck in trees all the time, but this was getting ridiculous.” Sometimes Floyd verges on solutions, but he always lapses into the familiar pattern: “Floyd fetched a ladder. The text is handwritten in a childish yet legible scrawl, with liberal use of uppercase letters. Some pages symbolize mood with a single color, boy and tree both murky brown with irritation or red with frustration.
Jeffers’ light-handed illustrations are hilariously droll.
He flings up a bucket of paint, the milkman, real trucks, a full-size lighthouse and “a curious whale, in the wrong place at the wrong time.” Everything sticks. Everything but the kitchen sink gets tossed up a tree to help Floyd retrieve his kite-oops, there goes the kitchen sink too!įloyd has one approach, and one approach only, to kite recovery: Throw something up to knock the kite down.
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