From narration that consists entirely of Barnacle's mopey monologue to a dockside environment defined by creamy blue water, a bit of sand, and a couple planks, Fenske keeps it simple, deploying his closing jokes with confident comic timing. In the style of Mo Willems, Jonathan Fenske tells three humorous stories of two friends, Pig and Fox, and their shenanigans with a cardboard box (all of which involved Pig accidentally crushing Fox in the box). I bet he soars with sailfish") that abruptly ends with the arrival of a hungry eel it turns out that being bored beats being lunch. After a dopey-looking yellow fish shows up, it triggers a series of jealous imaginings ("I bet he dives with dolphins. I am dry and hot." Fenske gives Barnacle pale limbs that dangle in the water like idle fingers and a range of grimaces and half-lidded glares. Affixed to the underside of a dock, Barnacle has an existence that's low on mobility and big on routine. In a mischievous skit of a story, Geisel Award Honoree Fenske (A Pig, a Fox, and a Box) introduces a dyspeptic barnacle for whom the sea grass is always greener until it isn't.
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