Go Ask Giorgio!


BY PATRICIA WITTMANN
ILLUSTRATED BY WILL HILLENBRAND
MACMILLAN,  GRADES 2-4

To satisfy his large appetite for work, Giorgio wears many hats. He dons a flat blue cap when he runs his gas station; a straw hat is perfect for gardening, and a chef's toque covers Giorgio's head as he prepares the food at his cafe. But in his eagerness to help out when asked, Giorgio's three hats turn into six--he kindly fills in for the mailman, the train conductor and the sardine fisherman. So many jobs make Giorgio a very tired fellow, causing him to relinquish some of his tasks--and hats--to add a nightcap to his collection.

Reviews


The illustrations are oil and pastel, with spicily rich colors in deceptively simple small-town compositions. Hillenbrand gives a [Giorgio] de Chirico slant to many perspectives (an incoming train presents a visible Doppler effect), but he never takes attention away from the people... —Bulletin Of The Center For Children’s Books
 
Hillenbrand's… sunny palette reflects the Mediterranean flavor of an Italian town. His Giorgio is a bearded, sturdy block of a man with an infectious sparkle in his eye; he shines as a picture-book protagonist. —Publishers Weekly
 
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