This a a charming, nostalgic coming-of-age story, which my eight-year-old daughter and I both adored. It is an innocent look at childhood in yesteryear, and a lesson on the power of friendship. Hoberman briefly touches on anti-semitic attitudes pre-WWII in a small Californian neighborhood, but ...
“I like old clothes” is reiterated again and again in this re-issue of Mary Ann Hoberman’s 1976 poem, but with new illustrations by Patrice Barton that are an ideal match for the rhyming text. An inspired girl and her little brother celebrate the wonder of hand-me-downs as they play dress up. She...
Original, inviting artwork and the pieces of story that are referring to inter-generational ties are engaging. The poetry is sometimes flowing and sometimes clunky, but more than anything I was just uncomfortable with the comparisons of random objects being classified as "family" or "husband and ...
I love poetry and this book had many fun poems to read. They varied from quiet ones, silly ones, sad ones, and some were imaginative. I liked how they inculded family in some and there were some about grieving as well. I recal reading one about an absent father. I read many of animals and monster...