Lulu Atlantis has all the imagination and spunk as Junie B. Jones. But unlike Junie, Lulu has impeccable grammar and an impressive vocabulary. On her quest for True Blue Love, we meet an array of interesting characters including her best friend Harry who just happens to be a top-hat wearing daddy long legs spider. I loved this book and I think it would be great for relunctant readers in 4th or 5th grade. Since the main character is a girl, it might have more appeal for girls. It also deals with

Lulu Atlantis has a best friend, Harry, who is a spider. When her mom brings home a new baby, Lulu and Harry run away. They make a new friend on their adventure- a skunk. The book it divided up into parts and each part has its own unrelated adventure. Lulu wants to know "what is true blue love"? This is a quirky little book with real emotion dealing with real life problems for a child- a new sibling, a traveling (absent) dad, wanting to help mom but not knowing how, and loss of a friend. My 9 ye...

I thought this book was quirky and delightful. Lulu Atlantis is having a difficult time of things. She has to deal with her father never being home, her new baby brother Sam, and THAT FELINE. Accompanied by her faithful friend, Harry the top hat-wearing spider, Lulu's quest for true blue love will connect her to such fabulous characters as The Eggman, Yogurt Skunk, and the Gangster Bakers.

This was really cute. A little disjointed and scattered. Definitely eclectic, but it was cute.I also just like the phrase True Blue Love. Bless.

A sweet children's picture book that is about Lulu who discovers that True Blue Love takes compassion and kindness on both sides of a relationship.

I'm sure I'm not the only person who had high expectations because of the big-eyed, sky-blue, skunk-love cover. Overlong, weirdly out of sync with reality, dotted with fun details but just generally inconsistent and sometimes incoherent. For instance, this seems to be set in contemporary times, but Lulu doesn't go to school, isn't homeschooled, and no other characters her age ever appear in the book. She calls her parents Father and Mother. She's jealous of her baby brother in the way that a fo

I think it's supposed to be cute and fanciful, but it missed the mark for me. Lulu is not a charming character; she's actually a jerk to her family and friends quite frequently. Her dad is never present, her mom is nice but absent minded and somewhat neglectful, her best friend is a daddy long legs (which isn't a spider...). It's hard to care about anyone. I found the cat to be a particularly weird chapter.

I picked this up because I loved the cover art and the fact that the back said it had "a fancy cat" in it, but was really disappointed. I forced myself to finish just to see what the resolution would be, but will not recommend. I like quirky, but the story was not compelling.

this is a bizarro little book. main character Lulu Atlantis has a best (imaginary?) friend who is a spider named Harry who wears a top-hat and is the voice of reason (Jiminy Cricket, perhaps?). During the course of the book they meet a skunk who has a yogurt container stuck on his head (and who is, thereafter known as "Yogurt Skunk"), three gangster bakers and a nemesis fancy cat (who arrives at their door with bells and bows) named Princess Fancy. It strikes me as being a stream-of-consciousnes...

Lulu Atlantis and the Quest for True Blue Love is a fun read for kids that have graduated from Early Chapter books to Young Reader books. The text is nice and large and the characters in the stories are a lot of fun. Although, I must say, that little Lulu Atlantis sure can be a little stinker sometimes. She wasn't always the nicest girl in this book, being mean to her little brother, even though he didn't do anything but get born. And later, she is really nasty to her best friend, Harry the Spid...

3rd/4th gradeLulu Atlantis has a best friend named Harry (a daddylongleg spider). In this book she searches for True Blue Love, she meets a Fancy Cat who isn't so nice, she meets a skunk called yogurt and she has to deal with a father who is never around and a mother who spends a lot of time with Lulu's new baby brother. Her life is very adventurous!

When the young, female, New York editors who are now in charge of children's books, (even though they may not have children--or even have that much experience with children,) talk to us writers about wanting quirky material--well, this book perfectly fits the bill. It is about as quirky as quirky gets. Though the plot line is as conventional as you can find, Martin finds ways to make the story feel fresh and fun. She introduces good guy gangsters and insects who talk... She plays with language a...

Parts of this book were enjoyable, a little girl makes imaginary friend with a spider because she feels left out after the birth of her little brother. But then, more characters are introduced and the line between real and imaginary gets very blurry, and the book becomes bizarre. Who is the Eggman anyway!?

This would be classified as a fantasy due to the talking animals that play a large part of this story. Lulu Atlantis is very unhappy when her mother comes home with a new baby brother, Sam. Her mother has no time for her and Lulu decides to run away from home with her friend Harry, a Daddy long-legged spider who wears a green vest, red bow-tie and tophat. Harry adores her and is her constant companion, giving advise whenever asked. Lulu is in search of "true blue love" and wonders what it is and...

I have becoming really crotchety lately. I can't finish this one... maybe others think it is charming -- I feel that there is way too much forced humor (supposed humor?) and too many random happenings. I'm half way through it... Betsy, do I have to finish it? Is there some adhesive moments toward the end that tie all the threads together? I need some help with understanding this one. LOVE the cover, though -- but why is Harry the Spider on the BACK, not the front?

"Midnight. That was when things happened. Midnight was when owls hooted and witches flew, when ghosts seeped like smoke through the keyhole in your door, and when your refrigerator gasped and sighed, tired of being cold."

Hmm... I think I know what the book was trying to do, but the method was at times tedious and often too dark and bitter for the target audience (7-10). I liked the Yogurt Skunk and Harry very much, and in the end of course Lulu Atlantis finds her answer (with some help from the endearing Eggman). But the quest... well, it didn't make me want to keep reading page after page. In fact, I looked forward to taking breaks!

Lulu Atlantis has all the imagination and spunk as Junie B. Jones. But unlike Junie, Lulu has impeccable grammar and an impressive vocabulary. On her quest for True Blue Love, we meet an array of interesting characters including her best friend Harry who just happens to be a top-hat wearing daddy long legs spider. I loved this book and I think it would be great for reluctant readers in 4th or 5th grade. Since the main character is a girl, it might have more appeal for girls. It also deals with n...