The bold, creative illustrations by Ross MacDonald (a Canadian now living in the US) are perfectly suited to the story and visually add to the puns. She’d heard that 7 ate 9, and she drops a scoop of ice-cream onto Private I’s pie that’s shaped like the number π – which is the mathematical pi.Īs you can easily figure out from what little I have said – not wanting to give away the whole story – there are many puns and word plays in this funny picture book 7 Ate 9: The Untold Story. (No, I didn’t mean to type pie.) The waitress, whose name is B, has the scoop. Private I goes to the café for a slice of pi.
That fact doesn’t console 6 and he fears his days are numbered as both 7 and 9 seem to be missing! Private I pointed out that 7 is always after him – as in 5, 6, 7. He has heard that 7 Ate 9, and he is scared 7 would soon be after him. Private I is asked by the number 6 to help him. And how can it not be, having been written by Tara Lazar? I think we can all breathe a sigh of relief that he’s not being digested as we speak.7 Ate 9: The Untold Story is a very entertaining story. It should also give everyone some closure when they find out what really happened to 9. With fun pictures and a cute story, it will keep parents smiling as their kids giggle at some of the silly puns. If your kids have mastered learning their numbers and the alphabet, then they should get a real kick out of 7 Ate 9. But this world inhabited by letters and numbers is well thought out and some very informed character choices are easily identified based on their shoes, gloves and faces (11 wears cowboy boots, for the record).
Not all of the numbers have logical places for faces, with 11 being the weirdest looking character in the book. The illustrations by Ross MacDonald are a lot of fun. Tara Lazar has a lot of fun with number puns and even includes jokes that will be above the target audiences heads, such as the Pi shop that I dines at while on the case. I love the concept and execution of this story, even if the detective genre may be lost on this current generation of kids (I was lucky enough to have Who Framed Roger Rabbit? as a frame of reference in my youth). Can you figure out what happened to 9 before I does? It will take a lot of sleuthing through the world of letters and numbers for I to crack the case. 6 is very afraid of 7 after hearing rumors that 7 ate 9 and is coming after 6. The hero of our story is I, a private eye who is solving a crime for his client, 6. Well now that world famous elementary school joke has been fleshed out into a well crafted story in picture book form with 7 Ate 9 by Tara Lazar and Ross MacDonald. We’ve all heard the joke: “Why is 6 afraid of 7? Because 7 ate 9!” I hope you get it, if not we’ve got problems.
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