Agent: Gillian MacKenzie, Gillian MacKenzie Agency. Staake’s adventure offers eye-popping color, a wealth of sea life, and the entrancing vision of a companion who appears intimidating but is actually as devoted as a puppy.
She’s heartbroken when he migrates (“Beachy listened to his heart./ It told him ‘Time to sail!’ ”), but he returns after a few pages. High tide frees Beachy, and the two enjoy deep-ocean fun in a series of spreads, diving, leaping, and tumbling as Pixie rides on Beachy’s back and follows him under the waves. Yet the two share the same wide-eyed glee in a characteristically Staake salute to mid-20th-century cartoon art. A whale gets stranded on her beach, and now she has a new problem: “She pushed the whale/ She heaved and shoved./ He just had too much blubber!” Staake ( My Pet Book) plays up the contrast between the enormous midnight-blue whale (“Hello-my name is Beachy!”) and tiny Pixie, whose tongue lolls out from the exhaustion of trying to free her new friend.
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Alone in her island lighthouse, Pixie Picklespeare is bored-but not for long. 12,697 ratings 2,237 reviews shelved 22,900 times Showing 30 distinct works. In his most beautiful and moving work to date, Bob Staake explores the universal themes of loneliness, bullying, and the importance of friendship.
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