5/20/2023 0 Comments Oh No! Not Again! by Mac Barnett![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The delightful story, by Mac Barnett of Oakland, is graced by wonderfully silly and cinematic illustrations by Dan Santat. In her garage lab, she zaps a toad with a laser, making a skyscraper-tall (if sleepy-eyed) amphibian that can take on the robot in a battle worthy of something out of "Godzilla." Or at least that's the plan. "I never should have built a robot for the science fair." But the resourceful kid at the heart of "Oh No! (Or How My Science Project Destroyed the World)" (Disney-Hyperion $16.99) doesn't just sit back and let her one-eyed giant completely trash planet Earth. I knew it," says the bespectacled fifth-grader, walking down a ravaged street in what looks like San Francisco. Robert Oppenheimer, referring to his role in creating the atomic bomb, famously quoted from the Bhagavad Gita: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." On a much lighter note, the pint-size heroine of a new children's picture book also becomes aware of the monster she has unleashed: "Oh no. Facebook Twitter Email artwork from the book OH NO! by Mac Barnett and Dan Santat Mac Barnett and Dan Santat ![]()
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