Hannah's new sibling is due any day, and Hannah is certain it will be a baby girl. Why? Well, because Hannah already has a little brother. It's very logical, and Hannah has it all worked out. Her baby sister will be named Patsy and she will have red hair and love fudge swirl ice cream and she will be the best....
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Kindergarten-Grade 3-Hannah already has a little brother, so she tries positive thinking to ensure that the baby her mother is expecting will be a girl. She has decided in advance what her sister will look like, what they will do together, and what her first word will be ("Hannah"). The girl's parents gently warn her that she may be setting herself up for disappointment. When she learns that the baby is a boy, her dismay is realistic; however, when she gets to hold the newborn, she decides that "he's pretty cute for a baby brother." This loving family is warmly portrayed in both the text and in the cheerful, childlike paintings with Russo's signature use of flat areas of color and pattern. Hannah's own birth has been lovingly chronicled in Waiting for Hannah (Greenwillow, 1989), and her reappearance as she adjusts to her new sibling is welcome.
Pam Gosner, formerly at Maplewood Memorial Library, NJ
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Pam Gosner, formerly at Maplewood Memorial Library, NJ
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
About the Author
From the time I could hold a pencil, I loved to draw. My mother was a single parent who worked full time, and my brothers were much older than I was. It seemed like I spent a lot of time alone. Drawing and, later, writing kept me company.
I was very shy. My mother was always introducing me to little girls who lived in our apartment building in Queens, New York. I became good friends with one girl named Roberta, whose mother was an artist. When they moved to a house a few blocks away, Roberta's mother set up a studio in the attic and gave art lessons. I went with them to sketch in the park. We took the subway into Manhattan to visit museums. I knew I wanted to be an artist.
In the sixth grade I read The Diary of Anne Frank and decided to keep a journal. I keep one to this day. In the seventh grade I started writing short stories. I had a wonderful English teacher, Miss Rothenberg, who encouraged me to write. My first published story appeared in the junior high school literary magazine.
While I dreamed of going to art school, my mother steered me to a liberal arts college, Mount Holyoke. Being a studio art major there was a bit outside the mainstream and, later, having a Mount Holyoke degree didn't open any doors when I began searching for work as an illustrator. But I did get a tremendous education, which serves me well every day of my life.
My early illustration jobs were for magazines, eventually for The New Yorker. I got my first book illustrating job (a cookbook) when I was pregnant with my first child. Other books followed, and two more children. It was only after my third baby was born that an illustrator friend arranged for me to meet Susan Hirschman at Greenwillow. He had to really push me to make the appointment because I was pretty much consumed with motherhood (and exhausted!) The Line Up Book was my first picture book. My son Sam was obsessed with lining up objects all over our house, and that had been my inspiration.
The stories I write usually happen that way. My children say or do something that sticks in my mind. Or I remember something from my own childhood. I mull it over and over and expand it and come up with a story. The initial idea is usually the easy part, but giving it shape, rhythm, and a climax is much more difficult. Painting the pictures is the most fun of all.
There is no other job I would want. Every day when I sit down to work in my studio--which is a bedroom in my house--I feel very lucky and very happy. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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I don't expect this review to be terribly helpful, but I had to write, hoping Marisabina Russo might see it. We discovered her books at the library because our daughter, Hannah, saw the title "Come Back, Hannah" (an earlier Russo book.) Later we found this one. Unbelievably, my wife, Marissa, had just given birth to our third child (just like in the story). Hannah had hoped it would be a girl (just like the Hannah in this story), but it was a boy. Our Hannah already had a brother named Sam (just like in the Russo's story) and we had named our third child Ben (Just like in the story!!) Her grandmother also came out for the birth (as in the story) and made oatmeal and played the piano (as in the story.) It's really a bizarre coincidence. I plan to keep buying and reading Russo's books to find out what's going to happen to my childen as they grow! :-) I do, however, recommend her books for everyone, even if you don't have children named Hannah, Sam and Ben. The art is vibrant and the stories simple and lovely. Keep up the great work, Marisabina.
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Cute book! We bought it for a friend who was getting another little brother, instead of her wish for a sister. It's a cute book for easing that transition.
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