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The only child at the Sea View Hotel, Hubert's two week vacation is miserable until he encounters the hotel handyman.
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The only child at the Sea View Hotel, Hubert's two week vacation is miserable until he encounters the hotel handyman.
Author Notes
James Stevenson was born in Manhattan, New York on July 11, 1929. He graduated from Yale University. He was a reporter from Life magazine before being hired by The New Yorker in 1956. He drew 1,988 cartoons, 79 covers, and wrote and illustrated articles including Talk of the Town pieces for the magazine. He also drew editorial cartoons for The New York Times and in 2004 began an occasional series for the Op-Ed page entitled Lost and Found New York, which looked back on people and places of the past.
He wrote and/or illustrated more than 100 children's books including Don't You Know There's a War On, The Worst Person in the World, Higher on the Door, The Mud Flat Olympics, Yard Sale, The Mud Flat Mystery, What's Under My Bed, That Terrible Halloween Night, and Worse Than Willy. In 1987, he won the Caldecott Honor for When I Was Nine. He also wrote novels and an illustrated biography of Frank Modell, a fellow New Yorker cartoonist. He died of pneumonia on February 17, 2017 at the age of 87.
(Bowker Author Biography)
James Stevenson was born in Manhattan, New York on July 11, 1929. He graduated from Yale University. He was a reporter from Life magazine before being hired by The New Yorker in 1956. He drew 1,988 cartoons, 79 covers, and wrote and illustrated articles including Talk of the Town pieces for the magazine. He also drew editorial cartoons for The New York Times and in 2004 began an occasional series for the Op-Ed page entitled Lost and Found New York, which looked back on people and places of the past.
He wrote and/or illustrated more than 100 children's books including Don't You Know There's a War On, The Worst Person in the World, Higher on the Door, The Mud Flat Olympics, Yard Sale, The Mud Flat Mystery, What's Under My Bed, That Terrible Halloween Night, and Worse Than Willy. In 1987, he won the Caldecott Honor for When I Was Nine. He also wrote novels and an illustrated biography of Frank Modell, a fellow New Yorker cartoonist. He died of pneumonia on February 17, 2017 at the age of 87.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (4)
Horn Book Review
Hubert and his parents leave turn-of-the-century New York for two weeks at the Sea View Hotel. There are no other children to play with, but fortunately Hubert meets the hotel handyman, who shows him how to skip stones, lets him drive the steam-powered mower, and takes him night fishing. The funny and touching tale has been reissued with full-color illustrations -- still in the inimitable, cartoony Stevenson style. From HORN BOOK 1994, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
Wonderfully human animal characters, delightfully appointed Victorian settings, black-and-white comic strip format: an odd combination of elements, but Stevenson makes them seem to belong together in this charming depiction of a well-dressed little mouse's vacation with his parents at the leisurely Sea View Hotel. Popping with anticipation at first, Hubert is soon deflated to find that there are no other children at the hotel, that the creaky adult guests won't tolerate any activity above the tiptoe level, and--the final blow--that stinging jellyfish make even swimming impossible. But then Hubert meets Alf the caretaker, a nice old pipe-smoking dog, and through him discovers the ordinary delights of wild raspberries, swinging vines, stone skipping, night fishing. . . . From the hotel's gazebo for idling guests to the stars All sights from the fishing boat, every detail is so lovingly and accurately remembered that readers, like Hubert, will come to feel the charm of the Sea View Hotel. Then, just when they're settling into the pace--SWOOOOOOOSH! Hubert is carried off on an untended solo flight in Alf's homemade glider. A wild finale to the perfect vacation: it sure beats Disney World. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Horn Book Review
Hubert and his parents leave turn-of-the-century New York for two weeks at the Sea View Hotel. There are no other children to play with, but fortunately Hubert meets the hotel handyman, who shows him how to skip stones, lets him drive the steam-powered mower, and takes him night fishing. The funny and touching tale has been reissued with full-color illustrations -- still in the inimitable, cartoony Stevenson style. From HORN BOOK 1994, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
Wonderfully human animal characters, delightfully appointed Victorian settings, black-and-white comic strip format: an odd combination of elements, but Stevenson makes them seem to belong together in this charming depiction of a well-dressed little mouse's vacation with his parents at the leisurely Sea View Hotel. Popping with anticipation at first, Hubert is soon deflated to find that there are no other children at the hotel, that the creaky adult guests won't tolerate any activity above the tiptoe level, and--the final blow--that stinging jellyfish make even swimming impossible. But then Hubert meets Alf the caretaker, a nice old pipe-smoking dog, and through him discovers the ordinary delights of wild raspberries, swinging vines, stone skipping, night fishing. . . . From the hotel's gazebo for idling guests to the stars All sights from the fishing boat, every detail is so lovingly and accurately remembered that readers, like Hubert, will come to feel the charm of the Sea View Hotel. Then, just when they're settling into the pace--SWOOOOOOOSH! Hubert is carried off on an untended solo flight in Alf's homemade glider. A wild finale to the perfect vacation: it sure beats Disney World. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
